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__Hieroglyphs__ What I have found is that The Aztec writings of The Aztec are not real writings, they are all just paintings of things that represent syllables and some represented ideas. When the people write there paintings they often use colors that represent their social classes or their ranks.

__Science__ When one of the people in an Aztec tribe are sick they use special herbal remedies to cure and sometimes prevent illnesses. The Aztec knew cures for all sorts of things including fevers, earaches, when women were giving birth to children, and colds. For fevers, they took steam baths. They thought that sweat would clean relax them and would clean their souls out of evil spirits that were poisening them. For earaches, the doctors of that time suggested to put liquid rubber in their ears. They had all kinds of remedies for all of the illnesses that they encountered were given a cure that all of The Aztec used.

__Calenders and Dates__ The Aztec took their ideas about timme from the Maya and other Mesoamerica peoples before them. They thought the gods were guards of time like days, months, and even centuries. Theyalso thought that they controlled time so they had to please the gods for them to not destroy time. One year had 365 days in it just like today. It divided into 8 months which had 20 days in each month. A month was didved by 4 weeks with 5 days each. The extra 5 days at the end of each year were considered the unlucky days.

__Math and Numbering Systems__

The Aztec


 * Anthropologist**

__Artifacts__ The sun stone is one of the aztecs most important artifacts. It was their calender. It has the face of their sun god, Tonatiuh, in the center crying out for blood sacrifice. He is encircled by symbols of the earthquake that will "destroy the world". Another artifact is the aztec snake ornament. It's made of turquoise, wood, and shell. It's in the shape of a double headed snake. It's open jaws represent the entrance to the underworld. Priests would wear them during sacrifices.

__Social Classes__ Social classes from the greatest to the least amount of power- Tlatoani (the emperor), Cihuacoatl (snake woman), Priest, Government Official, Noble Warrior, Farmer


 * Historian**

The Aztecs decorated their temples and other buildings with detailed sculptures of their gods. Stone is 12 feet in diameter and in the center is the face of their Sun god, Tonatiun. Music was a big part in the Aztecs religious services. The chiefs played drums, flutes, and rattles.
 * Arts**

Religion was a big part of the Aztecs daily life. The Aztecs were polytheistic so they worshipped many gods and goddesses they each ruled one or more human activities or aspects of nature for example Tlaloc the rain and fertility god. The Aztecs would have sacrifices of their prisoners because they thought they had to feed their gods and if they didn’t then the gods would become and angry. The heart, liver, and head was thought to have divined power and was sometimes eaten as a delicacy. Humans would be sacrificed in different ways according to the god they were going to be sacrificed to, for example humans being sacrificed to the water god would be drowned in a lake and people being sacrificed to the sun god would have their skin stripped off and bleed to death. The sacrifices would take place in decorated temples.
 * Religious Rituals & Customs**

In 1325 the Aztecs became an individual empire and founded their city Tenochitlan. In 1391 the Aztecs started to become powerful soldiers under the rule of King Huitzilihutl. In 1519 the Spaniards arrived in Mexico and started taking over Tenochtitlan slowly. In 1521 the Aztecs of Tenochtitlan surrendered giving up to the Spanish.
 * Historical Timeline**
 * Folktales**

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