Aztec Jungle Agriculture
The heart and drive of the 15th century Central American Indians produced a burning fire to unite and find the naturally richest place to live. The evident greatness with which they lived their lives was tragically destroyed by the invading Spanish Conquistadores. Pablo Neruda, a 20th century poet, visited the ruins of Macchu Picchu high in the Andes of Peru. In his poem, The Heights of Macchu Picchu, III, Neruda muses about the fall of the Indian tribes to the Spaniards.
The human soul was threshed out like maize in the endless granary of defeated actions, of mean things that happened, to the very edge of endurance, and beyond, and not only death, but many deaths, came to each one:
each ...
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with their hands
shaking.(Bly 71)
In the early 1400's the Colhua-Mexica, Mexica, and Tenochca tribes migrated into the Valley of Mexico which is present day Mexico City(World Book 1004). The valley was about 7,000 feet above sea level and covered, for the most part, by water(World Book 1006). These three tribes united as the Aztec Empire following several concerted victories over neighboring tribes. The largest city in the Aztec Empire was Tenochtitlan which covered a large island in the center of Lake Texococo(Stuart 81). The Empire surrounding Tenochtitlan was connected by causeways and in some cases stretches of the lake bed would be drained and used to move larger commodities such as large stones or masses of people. The Aztecs were an extremely devout religious people(Stuart 81). They worshiped more than two hundred different divinities which individually ruled over some aspect of humanity(Stuart 81). An immense percentage of the Aztec divinities were devoted to ...
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2000 meters above sea level the Valley of Mexico had a cooler climate than anywhere below them geographically. The valley was also filled, for the most part with water which supplied the Aztecs with an independent water source capable of supporting some 200,000 Aztec men, women, and children. Lake Texococo also provided an independent food supply of fish as well.
The Aztecs, as a civilization, were highly advanced in areas such as battle, mathematics, and astronomy. Their abilities in astronomy contributed greatly to their economic success in the agricultural genre. Although it would seem that a civilization which was dependant on farming as means of survival would have had invented ...
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