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If you liked this episode you might like to join our Patrons’ Club. The Spanish defeated the Aztecs and conquered their Empire and took their gold. It killed half of the Aztec population, including many of its leaders. The Aztecs had no experience of smallpox. The Spanish had accidentally brought Smallpox with them from Europe. Some of the Spanish soldiers got scared and wanted to go home. However, the Spanish wanted to conquer their country. The Aztec King tried to make friends with the Spanish. Together they marched on the Aztec capital. The first thing that Cortez did was make friends with people that the Aztecs had conquered. Cortez’s army might be small but he had guns and horses and the Aztecs had neither. They landed a small army under a man called Hernan Cortez. Later though the Spanish wanted the riches of the Aztecs for themselves. Spain had discovered the Caribbean with Columbus. The mighty Aztec empire fell because of the Spanish. We get the word, chocolate, from them too. They were one of the first people to use chocolate. We get words like tomato, coyote and avocado from Aztec. Many Aztec words later became Spanish words and some of those because English words. They also had a game called Ullamalitzi which was a ball game with a rubber ball. They had a game called Patolli which was like a boardgame. Aztec children were very polite and were taught not to complain about anything or to interrupt anyone. At girls’s school, the girls learned to dance, sing and how to cook. At boys’ school, the boys learned a trade and how to fight. All children went to school – including girls. The women would stay at home and cook for the family. The men would work as farmer or would have a trade like being a potter. They would even sometimes go to war in order to capture people for sacrifice.įamily was also very important to the Aztecs. They used to capture enemies and sacrifice them. This is where they would kill people to make the Gods happy. Religion was very important to the Aztecs. It had gleaming white palaces and Pyramids with temples on the tops of them. The Aztecs ruled central America for hundreds of years.
Sophie (age 8) and Ellie (age 6) tell the story of the mighty Aztec Empire.-more.
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