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what was the shape of the Aztecs calendar?
a circle
What form was their spoken language?
An art form
How many times did most Aztecs eat per day?
How many different gods did they believe in?
5 different gods
Besides farming, what else did the Aztecs do to get food?
They hunted
How many days were on the Aztec calendar?
260 days
what system of writing did they do?
glyphs and pictographs
What determined what people in the society wore?
Their social status
How many sacrifices would they have a day?
144 sacrifices
What did the laborers do for work?
They were the ones that went to the field and planted the crops when they were needed.
What was there greatest accomplishment?
Their man made islands
How long ago has the language been dated back to?
7th Century AD
What were main staples in their diet?
Maize, beans, and squash
About how many sacrifices per year?
250,000
What did Aztecs use as fertilizer for some things?
Manure
What were the days on the Aztec calendar named after
Animals or parts of nature
How many people still speak the language today?
1.5 million
How did they dress at ceremonies?
In their nicest clothes or dressed as the gods
What did the Aztecs believe sacrifices would do for them?
Help their crops grow.
What did the organized people do for work?
Name of the 2 farming techniques they used
Terracing and Chinampas
what was the name of the Aztec language
Nahautl
What was the basic piece of clothing that men wore?
What was the name of their rain/storm god?
Tlaloc
What was the nickname for Chinampas?
Floating Gardens