The Aztecs were famous for their agriculture, cultivating all available land, introducing irrigation, draining swamps, and creating artificial islands in the lakes. They developed a form of hieroglyphic writing, a complex calendar system, and built famous pyramids and temples.

Both the Incas and Aztecs believed in and worshipped the sun god. They both practiced and participated in human sacrifices. And had built large temples to do the sacrifices in and had built special temples to worship thier god. The Incas and Aztecs had a polytheistic religion meaning they only beilved in one god.

The people who are known as the ‘Aztecs’ and ‘Maya’ live in Mexico and Central America today, and lived in the same areas in the past. The Aztec political centre was present-day Mexico City and the land around it. This is where the Aztec Empire was based. Unlike the Aztecs, the Maya were never an empire.

Aztec, self name Culhua-Mexica, Nahuatl-speaking people who in the 15th and early 16th centuries ruled a large empire in what is now central and southern Mexico. The Aztecs are so called from Aztlán (“White Land”), an allusion to their origins, probably in northern Mexico.

THE INVENTORS OF POPCORN WERE THE AZTECS. POPCORN WAS’NT REALLY INVENTED, IT WAS DISCOVERED. WHEN POPCORN WAS DISCOVERED THEY USED IT FOR DECORATIoNS, HEAD ORNAMENTS, AND NECKLACES. LATER THE AZTECS DISCOVERED YOU COULD EAT IT.

Xocolatl

In the first scientific mission to the New World, Francisco Hernández was sent to study the properties of medicinal plants in the Americas. Considered the “premier chocolate flavor among the Aztecs,” its taste has been likened to that of black pepper, nutmeg, allspice and cinnamon. …

And some experts believe that’s because some companies such as Hershey’s puts its milk through a process called controlled lipolysis. This breaks down the fatty acids in the milk and produces butyric acid – the chemical that gives vomit its very distinctive smell and acrid taste.

Tribute items typically included warrior costumes and shields, tropical feathers, copal incense, paper, foodstuffs, and animal products. Official tribute collectors, known as calpixque, were located in each of the conquered provinces and ensured that payments were made as required.

The most common Aztec drinks were ātōle, and pulque – a fermented juice of maguey (the century plant) which was the main drink of commoners. The rich made a point to not drink pulque.

It’s believed that the Aztecs invented tortillas and that the great Aztec emperor Montezuma used them like spoons for eating meat, beans and chiles. Tortillas have been made since then, and therefore tacos are the natural food of the Mexican people.”

While the Aztecs ruled, they farmed large areas of land. Staples of their diet were maize, beans and squash. To these, they added chilies and tomatoes. They also harvested Acocils, an abundant crayfish-like creature found in Lake Texcoco, as well as Spirulina algae which they made into cakes.

Tobacco (iyetl, in Classic Nahuatl) was absolutely present and used among the Aztecs. And also there were proprietors among who were spread out smoking tubes, pipes, and cigars, [some] quite resinous and aromatic; and tobacco bowls…

Huitzilopochtli

Tobacco was smoked, inhaled, chewed, and mixed with the leaves of datura, a genus of flowering plant that contains endogenous psychedelic compounds, which enhanced the hallucinogenic effect of the activity. Wild tobacco, which the Maya called ‘piziet’, also played a part in sacred ceremonies.

Xochiquetzal is the Aztec goddess of love, fertility, flowers, vegetation, arts, weaving and prostitution. She has a twin brother named Xochipilli, who was also the god of fertility and agriculture.