Does any one have any info on tenochtitlan?

Question

please give intresting facts .

please give any info about or please help me search for it. it's mexico city a long time ago FYI

Answer 1

Sure Vv6868, here are some links that might help you:
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/sites/meso_america/tenochtitlan.html
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/sites/meso_america/tenochtitlan.html
http://www.tenochtitlan.com/ (this one has very nice pics that you can use in your homework)
Good luck!

Answer 2

It was the capital of the Aztec empire. Mexico City was built over its ruin.

It had maybe 10 million citizens.

The city was built over a lake. Their own legend says that their ancestors were wanderers. They were commanded by their gods to look for a place where an eagle perched on a cactus eating a snake, and to make their home there. When they came across the lake in what would become central Mexico, they saw the eagle and the serpent, and built there city on the spot. That's why the current Mexican flag has an eagle perched on a cactus, with a snake in its beak.

It waqs a stone age civilization, and built gaint pyramids of stones and made swords and otehr weapons out of sharpened obsidian glass, ( a glass formed in volcanic eruptions). For a stone age society, it had sophisticated art and mathematics, including the famous "sunstone" a giant stone calendar carved out of rock..

The Aztecs had a brutal and bloody religion, and believed that constant warfare and the human sacrifice of captured prisoners ensured their continued prosperity and domination of the area. Even after conquering all the smaller tribes around them, they continued making "flower wars", which were "pre-arranged" battles designed to collect prisoners to sacrifice.

Spaniard Hernan Cortez brought 150 men, with firearms and horses, and managed to defeat a civilization numbering millions. Montezuma believed Cortez to be the incarnation of a god named "quetzalcoatl" whose human form supposedly had white skin and a beard like the Spaniard. Cortez played on this fear, marched on Tenochtitlan, gathering smaller tribes to his aid as he went. He demanded golden tribute from Montezuma, and was given rooms full of gold items. In the end, a plague of smallpox, for which the Aztecs had no immune defense killed and disabled millions, and Cortez and his 150 men were able to destroy the empire, level the city, and establish Christianity and a new colonial city in its place.

Answer 3

Largest city in Aztec Mexico. They had their own boating fleet. They had a calendar. They got conquered by the Spaniard Hernando de Cortes.