A Quick History of the Aztecs in pictures

They created floating gardens for growing food. They As the land had already been created more land for taken by other tribes, they agriculture by filling in the They built canoes, so they Around 1300 AD,The Aztec tribe had to settle in the swampy marshes. They built dikes to could fish and hunt birds that wandered into Mexico. banks of Lake Texcoco. hold back the water. lived near the water.

With the help of trained They were very religious and engineers, builders, and After they settled in, they believed that they had to offer traders, the Aztec capital of began to conquer the They expanded quickly and human sacrifices to appease Tenochtitlan became a great neighbouring tribes. built their empire. and honour their many gods. city.

The Aztecs had an emperor, a king who ruled over all the people. The emperor lived in the imperial palace in the capital city of Tenochtitlan. In 1519, the Spanish The palace was huge. It even conquistador, Hernan Cortes, The Spanish brought disease had its own zoo. The ground sailed from Europe to land in They were allowed to enter and eventually death and floor of the palace housed what is now Mexico. After a the city, and welcomed as destruction to the Aztec government offices and the difficult journey inland, Cortes valued guests, all because of empire with their superior shops of the most talented and his men entered the Aztec an old legend. – and weapons like guns and craftsman in the Aztec capital city and met , the consequently the arriving cannons and their use of empire. Aztec leader. Spanish were treated as gods. horses.

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