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    The document summarizes early civilizations in Middle America, focusing on the Aztecs. It notes that the Aztecs settled in Mexico in 1325 and built their capital city of Tenochtitlan. In the 1400s, Aztec warriors conquered surrounding peoples and forced them to pay tribute, enriching the Aztecs. Tenochtitlan became a large city with wide streets, canals, temples, and markets selling goods like food and feathers. Priests and farmers were important parts of Aztec society.

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    The document summarizes early civilizations in Middle America, focusing on the Aztecs. It notes that the Aztecs settled in Mexico in 1325 and built their capital city of Tenochtitlan. In the 1400s, Aztec warriors conquered surrounding peoples and forced them to pay tribute, enriching the Aztecs. Tenochtitlan became a large city with wide streets, canals, temples, and markets selling goods like food and feathers. Priests and farmers were important parts of Aztec society.

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    Early civilization of Middle

    America
    BY: JOAQUINA , NAOMI, DANIEL.

    The Aztecs

    The Aztecs settled on an island in Lake Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico , in 1325. The Aztecs capital was
    Tenochtitlan, which stood on what is now known as Mexico city. In the 1400s, Aztecs warriors started to
    conquer the other people of the region and they forced them to pay taxes and to pay tribute. The
    Aztecs grew rich from the tribute.

    Priests were really important in society. Most of the people in the Aztec empire were farmers, they made
    floating gardens called chinampas, the grew corn, squash, and beans.

    Tenochtitlan was a great capital city, it had wide streets and canals and it had huge temples and many
    markets most filled with food, gold, and feathers. The emperor and nobles lived In palaces with slaves to
    serve them.

    It is said that the major Aztec weapon could chop off the head of a horse with only one blow, they had
    powerful weapons. Aztecs doctors were able to make more than 1000 medicines from plants.

    They lived from about 1325 -

    Moctezuma 2nd

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