Aztec Empire
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What are agricultural innovations?
Aztec Empire year
Who where the rules of the Aztec Empire?
- The triple alliance: Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, Tlacopan
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How did the Aztec Empire form?
- Merging and subjugation
- Imperial strategies of incorperating pre-existing states
- Hegemonic strategies to keep subject states dependent
What elements did the Aztecs adopt from their predecessors? (examples)
- Artstyles
- Spatial layouts
In what kind of political landscape did the Aztec Empire form?
What is an Altepetl? What are characteristics?
- City-state
- Developed and matured before the Aztec Empire arrived -> the empire developed itself across these structures and it facilitated the empire's functioning
- The most important political unit in the region
- Own name, rulership, identity
- Centered around one principal settlement
- Mostly about network alliances (system of social and economic ties)
What is an Calpolli? What are characteristics?
- Smaller subunits of Altepetl
- Comparable to a ward or neighboorhood
- Authory representitive for these calpolli
- Paid taxes
What are Chinampa? What are characteristics?
- Raised fields
- Highly irrigated tracks of land
- Intersected with canals
- Almost at or below water level
- Water level managed by dikes
What are Pochteca? What are characteristics?
- Professional merchants, but also collectors of information
- Economic role: mostly exotic valuables
- Political role: emissaries for Tenochtitlan, collectors of intelligence
- Connected to large markets and trade networks across the empire
- Connected different ecological regions
What are characteristics of the capital Tenochtitlan?
- Island
- Templo Mayor
- Ideological centre of the empire
- Tied in with dynastic history
- Indications of long distance commerce
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