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    Objective:

    To place the Aztecs within the correct period of history.

    WHERE WERE THE AZTECS?


    Click the map to show where in the world we would find the Aztecs.

    The Aztecs were a group of American Indian people who ruled a mighty empire in Mexico during the 1400s and 1500s.

    In 1325 the Aztecs founded a huge city on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco this became Tenochtitlan.

    Today it is one of the largest cities in North America known as Mexico City.

    The Aztecs had one of the most advanced civilizations in the Americas. Their cities were as large as any in Europe. They built towering temples and huge sculptures.

    They held impressive ceremonies featuring bloody human sacrifices to appease their gods.

    In 1519 the Spanish attacked and the Aztec Empire. By 1521 they had conquered and destroyed it.

    WHEN WERE THE AZTECS?


    The Aztec empire existed during the 1300s, 1400s and 1500s. Here are some European events that took place during that time. In the 1300s jousting was popular and the Black Death Plague ravaged Europe

    In 1492 Christopher Columbus set off to find India and found the Americas instead. In 1531 Henry VIII made himself Head of the Church.

    How do we know about the Aztecs?


    Archaeologists know something about how Aztecs lived from ruins of buildings, and remains of pottery, jewellery, and other artifacts which have been found buried deep under the ground.

    We can also find out a lot from the Aztec Codices. These are books written by the Aztecs recording events in picture format.

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