anyone know what did the ancient aztecs eat in everyday life?
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Maize, a type of corn, was the Aztec's main food source. The Aztecs also ate tomatoes, avocados, atole (a type of porridge), tortillas made from maize, and tamales, a kind of envelope made from steamed maize stuffed with vegetables or meat. \n  \nAztecs also ate chocolate. In their culture chocolate was reserved for warriors and nobility. A drink of cacao mixed with ground maize was believed to provide stamina and was used in sacred rituals. Chocolate was a drink for the elite. \n  \nThe Aztecs ate twice a day and the main meal was eaten during the hottest part of the day. Some of the edible things available in an Aztec market were fruit, vegetables, spices, flowers, edible dogs, and birds. \n \n \nThe Aztecs had an alcoholic drink called octli. An octli gatherer would take the sap out of the maguey plant and put it in a large jug. Then they would let the sap rot and then they would drink it. Octli was reserved strictly for nobles, royalty, and warriors. Any nobleman who abused (got drunk from) the divine drink of the Aztecs would be put to death. A good vendor of maguey sap boiled it until it was like honey, while a bad vendor would water it down.
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Stephens impressionistically described what was later identified as the ruined Maya city of Copan: "It lay before us like a shattered bark in the midst of the ocean, her masts gone, her name effaced, her crew perished, and none to tell whence she came, to whom she belonged, how long on her voyage, or what caused her destruction."\n\nThe typical Maya family (averaging five to seven members, archaeologists guess) probably arose before dawn to a breakfast of hot chocolate--or, if they weren't rich enough, a thick, hot corn drink called atole--and tortillas or tamales. The house was usually a one-room hut built of interwoven poles covered with dried mud. Meals of corn, squash and beans, supplemented with the occasional turkey or rabbit, were probably eaten on the run.\n\nsecond source\n\nNot all the cities were developed at the same time. At the beginnings of the Maya culture, the highlands raised the first edifices. In the apogee of the Classical Period, between 250 and 900 A.D., the lowlands witnessed the flourishing of great cities such as Tikal, located in the heart of the Guatemalan Petén. After that, the creative impulse moved to the plains and low plateaus of the south end of the Yucatán peninsula, where the Puuc cities saw their moment of glory.\n\nEach Maya city exhibits a unique style, although regions and epochs lent them certain common features. When we visit the ruins of the cities that seem to suddenly appear from the dense jungle, we cannot but admire the engineering workmanship which guaranteed the supply of provisions and water to the inhabitants; the fine stucco decorations; the stone estelas, dumb witnesses to the most advanced calendar system of those days; the ample and complex network of roads that criss-crossed all the land, keeping communications, commerce and interchange open to all Maya centres.\n\nThe names of the old cities are forgotten. The ones we use today were made up by explorers and missionaries, travelers and archaeologists. One of the few prehispanic names we keep is that of the City of the Wizards of the Water, Chichén Itzá.
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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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depends which tribe ur talking about. the sioux ate mainly buffalo meat. the iroqouis hunted antelopes and wildebeests....\nall tribes ate veggies and plants
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As for old practices, there were 4 meals in latinamerican cultures, DESAYUNO Which is a light meal eaten by the time you wake up, worth to mention that usualy country people still practice them, since they wake up before sunrise, and it's just a pice of sweat bread with a glass of milk or coffe. ALMUERZO is something much hevier for the stomach, A couple of eggs, or Chilaquiles, or a small portion of Meat, this is eaten by mid morning, say around 9 o 10, assuming of course that you woke up very early, then LA COMIDA, wich usualy is taken between 2 and 4 PM with the family gathered around the table, and finaly LA CENA usually taken by 8 or 9 PM wich and may vary from region to region, and of course the amount of food taken\n\nNow in modern days and specialy in cities, Desayuno and Almuerzo had been merged as a single meal but Comida and Cena still remains as a standard.\n\nIf you ment to ask by the origins of the word, I can't tell. sorry. but the word context had been explained sufficently I hope.
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I believe they would come up with some sort of religion involving pagan dieties for them to worship similar to what ancient cultures have done. Mayans, Egyptians, Aztecs, ancient Chinese, etc.
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almost everything they were an old civilization but they were smart they built pyrimids simular to the ones in guiza makes you wonder what happened 2 them conisidering they are the only anchient civilization in mexico that was taken over by conquesdadoors they just dissapeered. one thing that is especialy weird is they built roads linking thier collines for lack of a beter term even thier religion is far mor advanced then christiananity because they read so far into everything they were very into deatails. They even made balls but they were made out of sacrificed humans sculls after the goods feasted.
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actually enchiladas arent mexican, they're from guatemala, but they were like adopted or something by the mexicans. and well.... thats all i know about enchiladas
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WEB SITES RELATED TO THE AZTECS, THE INCAS AND THE MAYA\n\nA comprehensive site with lots of links for you to explore.  I have picked a couple of links as an example of what you can expect.\n\nhttp://www.cumbavac.org/Aztecs_Incas_Maya.htm\n\nhttp://www.ancientmexico.com/content/conquest/index.html\n\nThe Aztecs/Mexicas were the native American people who dominated northern México at the time of the Spanish conquest led by Hernan CORTES in the early 16th century. According to their own legends, they originated from a place called Aztlan, somewhere in north or northwest Mexico. At that time the Aztecs (who referred to themselves as the Mexica or Tenochca) were a small, nomadic, Nahuatl-speaking aggregation of tribal peoples living on the margins of civilized Mesoamerica.  More…..\n\nhttp://www.indians.org/welker/aztec.htm\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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A.\n\n\nPS someone posted a link a few weeks ago of a video of a guy saying how there must be a God because the banada was made so perfectly for humans to eat.\n\nHmmm, and what primate eats the most and the banana is most suited for? Ya just gave me another reason to vote for evo!
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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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Where I live now would have been part of a fore arc-subduction complex. At that time the western coast of the area that is now the United States was near the California-Arizona border, and the California-Nevada border. The Sierra Nevada was just starting to rise. A number of islands existed off the west coast that later became part of the North American plate. \n\nThe entire area was just above the equator. The environment was a desert biome. Worldwide, temperatures were warmer than they are today. There were no icecaps on the planet.  The plants that lived in what is now Southern California were dry-adapted (xeromorphic) to live in the hot arid to semi-arid environment.  Some conifers, trees with veined lobed leaves (Ginkophytes), rarely ferns, cycadophytes which look like a palm tree were all likely found growing in microclimates near the coast where there was more rainfall. The most impressive forms of animal life would have been several species of suaropods, which fed on conifers, ginkos and cyads. These were the dinosaurs with long necks and tails. Stegosaurus might have been feeding in the vegetation, and a bipedal carnivore called Ornitholestes may have preyed on them. \n\nSea life would have been abundant, and marine crocodiles may have been common. Large ichthyosaurs (marine reptiles) that reached 2-4 meters made swimming hazardous. Plesiosaurs were also likely to be present in coastal waters and may have preyed on the crocs. Sharks were abundant.  Fish might have been of a group known as bony fish, of which the lungfish and coelacanth are modern survivors. In the air Rhamphorhynchus, a flying reptile probably caught fish like pelicans do today. In shallow sea waters there were some strange looking bivalves known as Diceratids that often built shoals like modern day oysters do. Sea urchins, starfish, and crinoids lived in the shallow and shelf waters. Dragonflies and damselflies were present; also ants, butterflies, and grasshoppers lived in the vegetated areas. \n\n\nTo see a paleogeographic map go here and scroll down to the 150 Ma plate:\nhttp://jan.ucc.nau.edu/rcb7/jurpaleo.html\nHere is another map:\nhttp://jan.ucc.nau.edu/rcb7/150NAt.jpg\nBiome map for Late Jurassic:\nhttp://pgap.uchicago.edu/data-models.html\nPaper describing climate of Late Jurassic:\nhttp://www.geo.arizona.edu/~rees/2004-1.pdf
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The Aztecs had a mega pantheon of gods and practiced human sacrifice to appease more than a few of them. \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_mythology
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yeah he had wood peckers and as to where he kept them i have no idea but i do know that all the animals had one diet in common. back then even lions ate leave and grass and herb not meat but after the flood the diet was changed.
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http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/MAYAS.HTM\nhttp://history.enotes.com/early-civilization-almanac/aztec-government-economy\nhttp://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/INCAS.HTM
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I think you mean who discovered smoking? and i think it was the aztecs
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aztec pyramids, pancho villa, pinatas. I assume you mean Mexican/Spanish not Spain/Spanish