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The Aztec Social Hierarchy

Heuy Tlatoani

Emperor

  • hereditary role
  • Emperor and family live in Palace of Tenochtitlan
  • word is law

Line of Succession:

1. Oldest Trial

2. Children from oldest to younngest

3. Siblings of the emperor from oldest to youngest

4. Consort of emperor/empress

5. Sisters of the emperor from oldest to youngest

6. Grandchildren of the emperor from oldest to youngest

7. Children of siblings of the emperor from oldest to youngest

8. Other relatives of the emperor

Philli

Nobles

  • chose emperor from royal family
  • highest rank in social class (with the exception of the emperor
  • held powerful positions in government
  • made up most of preisthood
  • controlled most of empire's wealth
  • special privileges
  • wore jewelery/ cotton clothing
  • built two story houses
  • allowed more than one wife
  • educated in religious schools

Pochtecatl

Merchants

  • traded items: gold ornaments, woven cloth, salt
  • in return merchants got: bird feathers, jaguar skins, rubber, cocoa beans
  • dangerous job
  • Aztecs had no wheeled transportation/ animals to carry goods
  • goods carried on canoe/caravans

Macehualli

Commoners

  • fisherman, craftsmen, famers, etc
  • payed taxes to emperor
  • payed with goods
  • gave food/woven cloth
  • women would work in house of noble to pay tax
  • lived in groups of families- Calpolli
  • up to 20 houses per Calpolli
  • families farm land together
  • basic form of government
  • not all commoners were apart of a Calpolli
  • rarely became nobles

Mayeque

Slaves

  • people of tribes that Aztecs conquered
  • tribe was allowed to keep customs from old culture
  • not hereditary: children of slaves were not slaves
  • slaves could buy freedom
  • most frequently used for sacrifices
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