THE AZTECS: A Biopic By SimoTheFinlandized / Paul P. - Written In 2022 CE

============================== THE AZTECS: A Biopic By SimoTheFinlandized / Paul P. - Written In 2022 CE ============================== The Aztecs were a Native-American people who built up a large pre-Columbian empire in Central America, mainly in Mexico. Their empire lasted from the 14th to the 16th century CE. They spoke the Nahuatl language. Their capital was the great city of Tenochtitlan; it was built on a group of man-made islands in a lake. Tenochtitlan was one of the greatest and most advanced cities of the world in that time, with a population nearing 200,000 at its peak. Religiously, the Aztecs believed in polytheism. Quetzalcoatl (feathered snake), Huitzilopochtli (hummingbird of the south) and Tezcatlipoca (smoking mirror) were the most important Aztec Gods. Sometimes the Aztecs sacrificed humans in their temples to please their gods. Between 1519 and 1521 the Spanish leader Hernán Cortés defeated the Aztecs and took their empire. Some Aztecs did not want to fight against the soldiers of Cortés, because they thought they were Gods. Today many Mexicans have Aztec and other Native American forefathers. People still use Aztec symbols in Mexico. On the Mexican flag there is a picture of an eagle on a cactus with a snake in its mouth. This was an Aztec symbol. Also the name "Mexico" itself is an Aztec word. The Aztecs ate a lot of plants and vegetables that could be grown easily in the Mexico area. The main food that they ate was corn, which they called maize. Another food that they ate was squash. The Aztecs also had a lot of harsh punishments for certain crimes. For the following crimes the punishment was death: adultery, wearing cotton clothes (cotton clothes were only for the nobles), cutting down a living tree , moving a field boundary for making your land bigger, making someone else's smaller, major theft and treason. ==============================