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Franco, Jean (2004). "The return of Coatlicue: Mexican nationalism and the Aztec past". Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. 13 (2): 205–219. doi: 10.1080/1356932042000246977. S2CID 162346920.

Mexican cuisine continues to be based on staple elements of Mesoamerican cooking and, particularly, of Aztec cuisine: corn, chili, beans, squash, tomato, avocado. Many of these staple products continue to be known by their Nahuatl names, carrying in this way ties to the Aztec people who introduced these foods to the Spaniards and to the world. Through spread of ancient Mesoamerican food elements, particularly plants, Nahuatl loan words ( chocolate, tomato, chili, avocado, tamale, taco, pupusa, chipotle, pozole, atole) have been borrowed through Spanish into other languages around the world. [175] Through the spread and popularity of Mexican cuisine, the culinary legacy of the Aztecs can be said to have a global reach. Today, Aztec images and Nahuatl words are often used to lend an air of authenticity or exoticism in the marketing of Mexican cuisine. [177] In popular culture [ edit ] By the early 16th century, the Aztecs had come to rule over up to 500 small states, and some 5 to 6 million people, either by conquest or commerce. Tenochtitlán at its height had more than 140,000 inhabitants and was the most densely populated city ever to exist in Mesoamerica. Maschere e figure realizzate con la mescalina sono altre forme di preziosi gioielli aztechi. Il popolo Mezcal è un antico gruppo che occupò l'area 2000 anni fa. I sacerdoti usano queste maschere per imitare gli dei. Queste figure vengono utilizzate per importanti rituali quotidiani e sacrifici agli dei. Dio è una parte molto importante della vita quotidiana. Main article: List of Aztec gods and supernatural beings The deity Tezcatlipoca depicted in the Codex Borgia, one of the few extant pre-Hispanic codicesCarrasco, David (2012). The Aztecs: A very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-1953-7938-9. Did you know? The Aztec language, Nahuatl, was the dominant language in central Mexico by the mid-1350s. Numerous Nahuatl words borrowed by the Spanish were later absorbed into English as well, including chile or chili, avocado, chocolate, coyote, peyote, guacamole, ocelot and mescal. Brumfiel, Elizabeth M. (1998). "The multiple identities of Aztec craft specialists". Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association. 8 (1): 145–152. doi: 10.1525/ap3a.1998.8.1.145. The first Aztec murals were from Teotihuacan. [128] Most of our current Aztec murals were found in Templo Mayor. [128] The Aztec capitol was decorated with elaborate murals. In Aztec murals, humans are represented like they are represented in the codices. One mural discovered in Tlateloco depicts an old man and an old woman. This may represent the gods Cipactonal and Oxomico. Though the Aztecs had superior numbers, their weapons were inferior, and Cortes was able to immediately take Montezuma and his entourage of lords hostage, gaining control of Tenochtitlan. The Spaniards then murdered thousands of Aztec nobles during a ritual dance ceremony, and Montezuma died under uncertain circumstances while in custody.

Films on the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico. Part One: Historical Films". Native American Films. Archived from the original on 15 October 2018 . Retrieved 12 April 2018. In November 1519, Cortes and his men arrived in Tenochtitlan, where Montezuma and his people greeted them as honored guests according to Aztec custom (partially due to Cortes’ physical resemblance to the light-skinned Quetzalcoatl, whose return was prophesied in Aztec legend). I clan familiari di cui si è parlato in precedenza amministravano anche le terre, ad ogni clan apparteneva una data porzione di terreno che il consiglio di anziani gestiva. Col passare del tempo e con la crescita dei territori conquistati il sistema divenne sempre più oligarchico con un gruppo ristretto di grandi famiglie ricche e potenti che dominavano il Paese. In today's usage, the term "Aztec" often refers exclusively to the Mexica people of Tenochtitlan (now the location of Mexico City), situated on an island in Lake Texcoco, who referred to themselves as Mēxihcah ( Nahuatl pronunciation: [meːˈʃiʔkaʔ], a tribal designation that included the Tlatelolco), Tenochcah ( Nahuatl pronunciation: [teˈnot͡ʃkaʔ], referring only to the Mexica of Tenochtitlan, excluding Tlatelolco) or Cōlhuah ( Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈkoːlwaʔ], referring to their royal genealogy tying them to Culhuacan). [13] [14] [nb 1] [nb 2] L’esercito non era molto sofisticato. Gli aztechi non conoscevano il cavallo ( arrivato assieme agli Europei), né le armi da fuoco, usavano per lo più armi in ossidiana, materiale molto tagliente.

Chi erano gli aztechi, dove si stanziarono, fin dove si estendeva il loro impero

Further information: Society in the Spanish Colonial Americas Codex Kingsborough, showing the abuse by Spaniards of a Nahua under the encomienda Spanish labor system In 1396, at Acamapichtli's death, his son Huitzilihhuitl ( lit. "Hummingbird feather") became ruler; married to Tezozomoc's daughter, the relation with Azcapotzalco remained close. Chimalpopoca ( lit. "She smokes like a shield"), son of Huitzilihhuitl, became ruler of Tenochtitlan in 1417. In 1418, Azcapotzalco initiated a war against the Acolhua of Texcoco and killed their ruler Ixtlilxochitl. Even though Ixtlilxochitl was married to Chimalpopoca's daughter, the Mexica ruler continued to support Tezozomoc. Tezozomoc died in 1426, and his sons began a struggle for rulership of Azcapotzalco. During this struggle for power, Chimalpopoca died, probably killed by Tezozomoc's son Maxtla who saw him as a competitor. [37] Itzcoatl, brother of Huitzilihhuitl and uncle of Chimalpopoca, was elected the next Mexica tlatoani. The Mexica were now in open war with Azcapotzalco and Itzcoatl petitioned for an alliance with Nezahualcoyotl, son of the slain Texcocan ruler Ixtlilxochitl against Maxtla. Itzcoatl also allied with Maxtla's brother Totoquihuaztli ruler of the Tepanec city of Tlacopan. The Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco and Tlacopan besieged Azcapotzalco, and in 1428 they destroyed the city and sacrificed Maxtla. Through this victory Tenochtitlan became the dominant city state in the Valley of Mexico, and the alliance between the three city-states provided the basis on which the Aztec Empire was built. [38]

In Mexico, Aztec place names are ubiquitous, particularly in central Mexico where the Aztec empire was centered, but also in other regions where many towns, cities and regions were established under their Nahuatl names, as Aztec auxiliary troops accompanied the Spanish colonizers on the early expeditions that mapped New Spain. In this way even towns, that were not originally Nahuatl speaking came to be known by their Nahuatl names. [176] In Mexico City there are commemorations of Aztec rulers, including on the Mexico City Metro, line 1, with stations named for Moctezuma II and Cuauhtemoc. Bueno, Christina (2016). The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-5732-8. L’impero azteco finì definitivamente negli anni Venti del Cinquecento, distrutto dai conquistatori occidentali. Gli Inca Main article: Women in Aztec civilization Folio from the Codex Mendoza showing the rearing and education of Aztec boys and girls in an ages list, how they were instructed in different types of labor, and how they were harshly punished for misbehaviorThe idea of the Aztecs has captivated the imaginations of Europeans since the first encounters, and has provided many iconic symbols to Western popular culture. [178] In his book The Aztec Image in Western Thought, Benjamin Keen argued that Western thinkers have usually viewed Aztec culture through a filter of their own cultural interests. [179]

Cooper Alarcón, Daniel (1997). The Aztec palimpsest: Mexico in the Modern Imagination. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

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Cortés arrivò in America nel 1519 e nel giro di pochi anni conquistò Tenochtitlán e catturò Montezuma II. Nel 1521 l’impero azteco era di fatto finito. Considerando che, per quanto con armi da fuoco e con cavalli, gli Europei erano pur sempre poco più di cinquecento, in un territorio a loro sconosciuto, un’impresa del genere non sarebbe stata possibile senza l’ appoggio militare e logistico delle popolazioni che conoscevano bene il territorio e il nemico, e che soprattutto erano volenterose di disfarsi del giogo azteco. Cortés sfruttò abilmente entrambi. Il fatalismo dell’élite Main article: Mexico-Tenochtitlan Map of the Island city of Tenochtitlan Mexico-Tenochtitlan urban standard, Templo Mayor Museum