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Chinampas and Causeways used by Aztecs. Materials ? How? Why?
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http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/chinampas-floating-gardens-mexico-001537
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway
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How they were made
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Set a rectangular enclosure about 30m long and 2.5 in width
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This enclosure would be fenced by joining the stakes with wattle ,then filled with mud and decaving vegetion
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They planted willows around the perimeter, the roots would lock the chinampas in place.
To ensure flooding didn't happen, they built sophisticated drainage system. This encluded dams, sluice gates,and canals,were put
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Materials they used and why they made them.
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Materials
-Woven wattle
-Decaving vegication
-Mud
-Willow trees
-Woven wattle
-Decaving vegication
-Mud
-Willow trees
Why they made chinampas.
Good source for crops
Land for housing
Provided for the large population
Causeways
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Why?
-Transportion
- Supplied the people with water
Purpose?
Causeways connected the floating city of Tenochtitlan to the Mainland.
How causeways were made
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Materials Used.
- Strong wooden pillings
-Stones
-Earth
Materials Used.
How causeways were made
- Two lines of stakes were set
- Space between was filled with stones and earth
-Built up to several feet above water level
-Extra: A gait connecting the city and the causeway, would open and close to keep people or animals out.
Where it was located
Purple arrow
chinampas and causeways are located AT the purple arrow
Purple arrow
Dark Purple arrow
The Dark Purple arrow is where the aztects lived
Dark Purple arrow
What Chinampas and Causeways looked like
What Chinampas and Causeways looked like
Causeway
chinampas
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FUN FACTS!
- To make the causeways stronger, the Aztecs made them as straight as possible and quite wide, even up to 45 Feet
- The word Chinampa it from the Nahuatl word, chinamitl, meaning: Fence surrouding a plot of land with water on at least from sides.
-Chinampas were invented by the Xochimiloc people. When the Aztecs conquered them, made use of the idea.