Aztecs (jan 1, 1300 – jan 1, 1521)

Description:

- Also called Mexica
- When Spaniards came, people willingly joined B/C resented Mexica
- capital Tenochtitlan built on Lake Texcco
- thriving, bustling: Europeans astonished at
beauty
- Tribute system: administered by local government, payment conquered people payed to stay conquered
- Loosely structured, unstable
- Chinampas: floating agricultural islands
- Slaves used in human sacrifice
- Human sacrifice fueled warfare
- No elaborate system rose to integrate conquered people (unlike Inca)
- Gender parallelism, but not equal

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