How did Aztec life and culture affect our world today?
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Aztecs brought the concept of the number zero...also calendars of today are derived from the Aztec calendar....The following words come from the Aztec language Nahuatl: (coyotl)Coyote, (mizquitl) Mesquite,(tomatl)tomato.  Also Aztecs used saunas, took daily baths (unlike the conquistadores), ate/drank chocolate, tatoos used by the lower class to improve their looks, had gardens sorrounding their homes, Aztecs used symbols similar to the characters used by the Chinese and Japanese, the poinsetta (in Spanish: Noche Buena and in Nahuatl: Cuetlaxochitl).  And finally one thing the Aztecs did that all societies should do but dont is that in the Aztec culture young and middle aged men were impaired by strict social barriers against drinking alcohol....
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That was a very good answer- But the question is so broad and important nobody would have space to give it the space it deserves.  There is an absolutely fantastic book called "Guns, germs, and steel" that goes into the differential evolution of cultures and societies, and gives this a very good treatment, plus it's written very well and easy to read- My 12 yr old boy read and understood it very well, and even enjoyed it (not as much as "The day my butt exploded" but there ya go"
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well... the short version is that they are two completely diferent societies. The incas branched off from the aztecs a long time ago and formed (very likely independantly) civilization around the city state of cuzco in peru right in the andes mountains. The aztecs lived in the central america region from the capital tenochtitlan where (as legend has it) an eagle landed with a snake in its mouth on a cactus. According to the quinn theorem of societal evolution the incas adapted to the more tropic climate of peru whereas the aztecs needed to survive in the mexican climate. both civilizations formed around major water sources for central irrigation for agriculture as both societies evolved past the hunter gatherer phase. in the end both civilizations met their demise to spain mostly from disease and the wrath of the conqistadors. If you are interested in aztec culture I highly recomend the (fictional) book "Aztec" by Gary Jennings
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This is a good site for Mythology...\n\nhttp://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/americas/aztec/
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you would probably find the answers either on google.com or ask.com cosmeo.com is also good but you have to sign up for it.\ni only know some of the answers.\n\n1. the major crops were maize (corn), beans, sweet potatoes, and other vegetables.\n2. they had irrigation.\n3. the mayan culture flourished at about a.d. 300\n4. i'm not exactly sure what was the capital but the largest mayan city was Tikal.\n5. the mayans exchanged their crops for cotton cloth, pottery, deer meat, and salt.\n6. around a.d. 900, the mayan civilization began to decline. at about a.d. 1100 the mayan cities were like ghost towns. no one exactly knows what caused the decline. maybe slaves and farmers revolted against their mayan masters or maybe the soil became too exhausted by erosion and fire to produce enough food for people. even thought the mayana civilization collapsed, descendants of the maya still live in parts os mexico and central america.
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The Olmec were an ancient people living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, roughly in what are the modern-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Their immediate cultural influence went much further though, Olmec artwork being found as far afield as El Salvador. The Olmec predominated in their lands from about 1200 BC to about 400 BC and they are, in fact, claimed by many to be the progenitors and mother culture of every primary element common to later Mesoamerican civilizations.
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The Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos, Día de los Difuntos or Día de Muertos in Spanish) is an ancient Aztec celebration in memory of deceased ancestors, celebrated on November 1 (All Saints' Day) and November 2 (All Souls' Day).\n\nThe holiday is especially popular in Mexico, where it is a national holiday, and is celebrated in the Philippines, in Mexican-American communities in the United States, and to a lesser extent in other Latin American countries. It is a public holiday in Brazil, where many Brazilians celebrate it by visiting cemeteries and churches, bringing flowers, lighting candles and praying.\n\nThough the subject matter may be considered morbid from the perspective of some other cultures, Mexicans celebrate the Day of the Dead joyfully, and though it occurs at the same time as Halloween, All Saints' Day and All Souls Day, the traditional mood is much brighter with emphasis on celebrating and honoring the lives of the deceased, and celebrating the continuation of life; the belief is not that death is the end, but rather the beginning of a new stage in life\nThe origins of the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico can be traced back to the indigenous peoples of the area, such as the Aztec, Maya, P'urhépecha, Nahua, and Totonac. Rituals celebrating the lives of ancestors have been observed by these civilizations for at least the last 3000 years. In the pre-Hispanic era, it was common to keep skulls as trophies and display them during the rituals to symbolize death and rebirth.\n\nThe festival that became the modern Day of the Dead fell in the ninth month of the Aztec calendar, about the beginning of August, and was celebrated for an entire month. The festivities were dedicated to the goddess Mictecacihuatl, known as the "Lady of the Dead", corresponding to the modern Catrina.
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The Olmec Civilization \n The Teotihuacan Civilization \n The Maya Civilization \n The Toltec Civilization \n The Mexica (Aztec) Civilization
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The term, Aztec, is a startlingly imprecise term to describe the culture that dominated the Valley of Mexico in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Properly speaking, all the Nahua-speaking peoples in the Valley of Mexico were Aztecs, while the culture that dominated the area was a tribe of the Mexica (pronounced "me-shee-ka") called the Tenochca ("te-noch-ka"). At the time of the European conquest, they called themselves either "Tenochca" or "Toltec," which was the name assumed by the bearers of the Classic Mesoamerican culture. The earliest we know about the Mexica is that they migrated from the north into the Valley of Mexico as early as the twelfth century AD, well after the close of the Classic Period in Mesoamerica. They were a subject and abject people, forced to live on the worst lands in the valley. They adopted the cultural patterns (called Mixteca-Pueblo) that originated in the culture of Teotihuacán, so the urban culture they built in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is essentially a continuation of Teotihuacán culture. \n\n   As stated in the section on the Toltecs, the peoples of Mesoamerica distinguished between two types of people: the Toltec (which means "craftsman"), who continued Classic urban culture, and the Chichimec, or wild people, who settled Mesoamerica from the north. The Mexica were, then, originally Chichimec when they migrated into Mexico, but eventually became Toltecs proper. \n\n   The history of the Tenochca is among the best preserved of the Mesoamericans. They date the beginning of their history to 1168 and their origins to an island in the middle of a lake north of the Valley of Mexico. Their god, Huitzilopochtli, commanded them on a journey to the south and they arrived in the Valley of Mexico in 1248. According to their history, the Tenochca were originally peaceful, but their Chichimec ways, especially their practice of human sacrifice, revolted other peoples who banded together and crushed their tribe. In 1300, the Tenochcas became vassals of the town of Culhuacan; some escaped to settle on an island in the middle of the lake. The town they founded was Tenochtitlan, or "place of the Tenochcas."  \n\n\nTenochtitlan Ruins, Mexico City    \n    Relations between the Tenochcas and Culhuacan became bitter after the Tenochcas sacrificed a daughter of the king of Culhuacan; so enraged were the Culhuacans that they drove all the Tenochcas from the mainland to the island. There, the Tenochcas who had lived in Culhuacan taught urban culture and architecture to the peoples on the island and the Tenochcas began to build a city. The city of Tenochtitlan is founded, then, sometime between 1300 and 1375. \n\n   The Tenochcas slowly became more powerful and militarily more skilled, so much so that they became allies of choice in the constant conflicts between the various peoples of the area. The Tenochcas finally won their freedom under Itzacoatl (1428-1440), and they began to build their city, Tenochtitlan, with great fervor. Under Itzacoatl, they built temples, roads, a causeway linking the city to the mainland, and they established their government and religious hierarchy. Itzacoatl and the chief who followed him Mocteuzma I (1440-1469) undertook wars of conquest throughout the Valley of Mexico and the southern regions of Vera Cruz, Guerrero, and Puebla. As a result, Tenochtitlan grew dramatically: not only did the city increase in size, precipitating the need for an aqueduct system to bring water from the mainland, it grew culturally as well as the Tenochcas assimilated the gods of the region into their religion.  \n\n\n    A succession of kings followed Mocteuzma I until the accession of Mocteuzma II in 1502; despite a half century of successful growth and conquest, Tenochca culture and society began to suffer disasters under Mocteuzma II. First, tribute peoples began to revolt all over the conquered territories and it is highly
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well if you meant old days before the invention of tv ,airplanes ,motorized ships .you will have a different ansrwers. in the past cultures were isolated far from each others until trades and needs for food and other vital needs start to move populations to farther places where these communities  met other communities and not only goods and material things are traded knowledges of new ideas ,thoughts and in some cases ,wars between tribes, lead the winners to gain cultural ideas ,they i mean humain immigration through hunger or commerce or drought lead the humain communities to intersect and social religious ,economical thinking ,languages had to meet and today we are dissolved almost in a huge village called planet earth .
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I really dont know, but hundreds of years ago the Aztecs had a game that was very similar to soccer.
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Actually, there was more than one.  The majority of the Aztecs died of smallpox.  Other, infectious European diseases were typhus, cholera, measles and mumps.
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It all started with the colonization, where an imaginary mexico created by Europeans tried to replace the Real mexico, the mexico that comes from mesoamerican cultures. This conflict between those two forces created an alternative way to deal with reality: Corruption. \n\nThis conflict has persisted until today, where the real mexico presents itself as informal economy, and subsistence economies in the indian towns... where corruption has became a way of life.
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Nothing New About It\n\nhttp://www.limitstogrowth.org/WEB-text/aztlan.html\n\nIn 1997, then-President Zedillo proclaimed that \n“I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation \nextends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring the ''conquista,'' \nSpain tried to impose on Mexico \na common western language, religion, and culture, \nand to the degree it was successful.  \nIt was also anti-American.  \nWe should remember \nthat the Spaniards were building the great cathedral \nat the Zocolo in Mexico City \na hundred years before George Washington \ntook control of the Continental Army \nat Cambridge, Massachusetts.  \nHere are two different world views, sharing the same continent.\n\nIn his article, Clash of Civilizations?, \nSamuel P. Huntington reminds us \nthat cultural differences may cause future wars, \nand that these wars will be along cultural ''fault lines.''  \n\nThe U. S.--Mexican border is one of those fault lines.  \n\nHuntington writes, \n''Civilization identity will be increasingly important in the future,\nand the world will be shaped in large measure \nby the interactions among seven or eight major civilizations \n\nThe most important conflicts of the future \nwill occur along the cultural fault lines \nseparating these civilizations from one another.'' \n\nIn regard to Mexico, Huntington writes, \n''During the past decade, \nMexico has assumed a position \nsomewhat similar to that of Turkey. \nJust as Turkey abandoned its historic opposition to Europe \nand attempted to join Europe, \nMexico has stopped defining itself \nby its opposition to the United States \nand is instead attempting to imitate the United States.''  \nHowever, \nunlike Canada, \nMexico has a large, nonwestern, indigenous population \nthat has not yet been integrated into modernity.  \nThis native population also carries \nan unconscious weight of resentment \ntowards the Spanish conquest, \nwhich it now mistakenly displaces onto the U. S. \n\nMexico's indigenous population \nis one of the contemporary strains in that society.  \nSub-Comandante Marcos \nand the uprising in Chiapas of indigenous people \nis a prediction of what is to come in Mexico \nif that strain cannot be relieved.\n  \nThe Mexican elites have decided, therefore, \nto reduce this strain by sending north \nas many poor and jobless Mexicans as they can.  \nInstead of solving their own problems, \nwhich might entail a reduction of their status, \nthe ruling Mexican elites have decided to keep the fiesta going\nand let the U. S. handle the cleanup. \n\nA top adviser \nto past Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari \ndescribed to Huntington all the changes \nthe Salinas government was making.  \nWhen the advisor finished, Huntington remarked: \n''That's most impressive.  \nIt seems to me that basically you want to change Mexico \nfrom a Latin American country into a North American country.''\nHe looked at me with surprise and exclaimed: \n''Exactly!  \nThat's precisely what we are trying to do, \nbut of course we could never say so publicly.'' \n \nWhat also could not be said publicly \nis that Mexico wants to reclaim its ''lost'' territory.  \nIt will use economics and illegal immigrants to do this.\n\nMany Mexican elites believe that to become a modern nation,\nMexico has to restructure its economy \nand regain the territory it lost during the first Mexican war.  \nFor over a century, \nMexican nationalists have used the myths and symbols \nof a lost but glorious indigenous past \nto motivate its plans for expansion. \n \nD. H. Lawrence wrote about this myth building in his novel, \nThe Plumed Serpent. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf the ''reconquista'' continues unchecked \nfor the next twenty years, \nthe U. S. will be a fundamentally different society than it is today.\n\nThere will be more poverty and low-wage jo
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the influence of pop culture on today's society.
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Yeah and Mexico back to the Aztecs.Then the Incas can take that back and so on till we find those cavemen I've seen in those commercials.
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They are not here because when the Aztecs occupied  Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico,  they were forced out by catastrophic events some huge storm from the pacific, and a great drought forced them to migrate further south, they ended up in the valley of Mexico in 1193 A.D.  Just type in ( origins of the Aztec people) and scroll down to No. 2 from Mississippi to Mexico, it will tell their story.