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Medicine

3 causes of injury/disease

1. Supernatural (displeasure of the Gods)

2. Magical (Curses or sorcery)

3. Natural/Practical ("Normal")

3 Remaining achievements

Aztec Doctors

Used herbs to cure and prevent ailments

Steam baths to sweat out spirits causing fevers

Ground obsidian for wounds

Pregnant Women

Carried wood ash to repel ghosts, which could harm unborn babies

If mothers looked at the sun during an eclipse, their unborn child could be harmed

Aztec goddesses of women should be prayed to daily

Poetry

What bird is this?

Created by well-educated nobles

Focused on "flower and song" - which was the representation for art and symbolism in Aztec life

Written in "nahuatl" - the language of the Aztecs

Medicine

Poetry

Architecture

Poetry and Religion

Poetry was highest art form

Represented fluid nature of life and death

Omeoteotl - The Lord and Lady of the Close and the Near - God who created the universe

Achieved immortality through creation

So to create art (Poetry) they too

could be immortal

Nezahualcoyotl (Hungry Coyote)

The sweet-voiced quetzal there, ruling the earth, has intoxicated my soul.

I am like the quetzal bird, I am created in the one and only God; I sing sweet songs among the flowers; I chant songs and rejoice in my heart.

The fuming dewdrops from the flowers in the fields intoxicate my soul.

I grieve to myself that ever this dwelling on earth should end.

I foresaw, being a Mexican, that our rule began to be destroyed, I went forth weeping that it was to bow down and to be destroyed.

Let me not be angry that the grandeur of Mexico is to be destroyed.

The smoking stars gather against it: the one who cares for flowers is about to be destroyed.

He who cared for books wept, he wept for the beginning of the destruction.

Noble Palaces

Areas where nobles lived, included:

Schools for training priests

Gardens

Aviaries

Zoos

The Great Temple

A twin stairs pyramid - two staircases, temples

Left - Tlaloc, God of Rain and Harvest, painted blue and white, colors of rain and moisture

Right - Huitzilopochtli - God of Sun and War, painted red and white, colors of war and sacrifice

Past and Present

Marketplace

Located near the main temple/center of the city

Aztec law required citizens to sell at market

Objects being sold on the way to market were punishable by law and by religion

Architecture in Tenochtitlan

One of the largest cities in the world - 200,000 people

Main religious and administrative buildings were around a large central plaza called the Sacred Precinct

Neighborhoods

Calpulli

Commoners lived a distance from the center square

Had their own local temples and local markets

Some spread to form towns on the shores of Lake Texcoco

Ball Courts

Built in "I" shape

Ball Court - "tlachco"

Ball Game - "tlachtli"

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