The Aztec Empire

Anas Abdeljaber
Monica Black
HIS 121-001
July 14, 2014

In the time of Columbus, Europe discovered a strange new world where every boy was born a worrier to fight and sacrifice to God who thirsty blood. By 1324, two hundred years before the Spanish arrived, Aztecs Empire were formed after they entered the valley of Mexico and settled the center of Lake Texcoco. They built a great capital called Tenochtitlan and became their homeland. Tenochtitlan located about 7,500 feet above sea level between the Gulf of Mexico and North Pacific Ocean where it was the largest city in the world (Schmal).They created a great civilization in Central Mexico called The Aztec. The small city was built to hold population that approximately two fifty thousand people. The Aztec religion was established on the forces of nature and worshipped themselves to their gods. According to Aztec belief the human heart was the most precious gift that offered to the God. Their mission was to give the sun the human blood to have enough energy to fight cross the sky, and feed the earth with their bodies to have enough nutrition (Schmal). The god of war, Huitzilopochtli, was the most important deity. They had many other important gods, such as Tlaloc, the god of rain whom was scarified by children’s’ tears, Quetzalcoatl, the god of wind and of learning, and Tenochtitlan, the sun god whom was offered the kids’ heart. The Aztecs believed in order to appease these and many other gods that they needed to perform human sacrifices (Evans 2008, p.451).
According to (Crystalinks) website, twenty percent of Aztec population was dedicated to agriculture while eighty percent were warriors. That explains why Tenochtitlan had the most powerful military at the time. That power came from training the Aztecs’ boys who are fifteen years old who leave childhood stage and enter the house of