(Post for Saturday) Aztec Q's.

http://www.native-languages.org/composition/aztec-art.html
http://www.umfa.utah.edu/?id=NTcy
http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/latam/aztec.html

Art:

• The forms of art for this culture were:

1. Pottery.
2. Making sculptures out of clay.
3. Drawing using volcanic stone, basalt and other hard stones, feathers, paint, leather, human and animal bones, turquoise, jade, starfish, sea urchins, gold, colored shells, amethyst, agate, opal, jasper, onyx, vegetables, insects, shells, minerals and oils.
4. Also decorating pottery with bird feathers, beads, flowers and metals.
5. Song and poetry
   

• Some Aztec symbols:

http://www.ancientscripts.com/images/aztec_days.gif

• Themes of Aztec art:

1. Symbols of fertility, which is the jaguar and pregnant women.
2. Serpents.
   
3. Death.
   
4. Deities.

Music:

• Interments include:

1. Rattles
2. Whistles
3. Trumpets
4. Drums
5. Flutes
6. Copper bells
7. Shells

• Music was directly linked to religion.

Religion:

• Their religion was based on the destructive force of nature, and they wanted to avoid it. So they made religion to please nature.
• There are many gods making it a polytheistic religion.
• Their gods are: http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC051399/list_of_gods_and_goddesses.htm
• Some ceremonies include:

1. Sacrificing.
2. Offerings.
   
3. Prayers.
   
4. Performing symbolic acts.
   
5. Games.

• They pray for their food and give thanks for it every day.
• Their religion is different from any religion today for many reasons. Sacrificing is frowned upon. There are not many religions with multiple gods in the present. Such things as those.

Technology:

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Expansion/Conquest:

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(More information will be added when gotten)