Lecture 13 Notes PDF

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Born Aztec o Born  Establish place in society  Social structure  Relationship between gender  Individual gender roles o Mid-wives o Baby is washed o 3 boys are brought in and they chant the baby’s name o Names determined by their birth date  Some days are lucky and unlucky  Some people did not want to name their child after an unlucky day o Gender  Boys are presented with arrows and bow, tools of father, expected to follow family occupation  Go to battlefield and bury the umbilical cord with the bow and arrows  Girls are presented with spindles, brooms, brush, house appliances  Bury the umbilical cord and the grinding stone  Roles they have in society Aztec Childhood o Boys instructed by fathers o Girls instructed by mothers o Strict punishment  Discipline  Little tolerance for misbehavior  Strict parents  Boys get hit by rods, or face shoved in chili smoke, or sleeping outside naked in the mud  Girls are tied and hit by rods, face shoved in chili smoke, or cleaning house all night Aztec Education o Public school system o Well developed o Co-ed schools o Commoner school o Boys go to training school for battles o Schools attached to temples o Boys act as a squire for the warriors Aztec Marriage o Matrilocal arrangements  Couple who are married move in with family o Patrilocal o Carry women into home Aztec Crime and Punishment

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o Lot of laws o Weren’t very many sentences for breaking them o Killed or became slave o Adultery is bad o Stoned to death o Strangled o Beaten to death Some Perks for the Elders o Doing their job in society and done o Get to do whatever Aztec Social and Political Structure o Few who have power o Nobility o Mexica Lord o Priests and Officials  Priests are important due to their role in religion o Merchants o Workers  Commoners are worker class o Farmers and Artisans o Servants and slaves o Pyramid of social structure o Calpolli: cities, administrative districts  Contributes soldiers to the army, for military campaigns, way to draft population  Sends chief or leader, to the Gran Consejo (grand counsel)  Leaders meet  Tlatoani  Aztec Emperor Aztec Nobles o Cloth is a form of wealth o Functionaries in the government Aztec Palaces o Administrative buildings o Courts o Elite crafts were made there  Make pottery, textiles, all the goods Aztec Commoners o Making up bunch of roles o Food production o Some farming of sort o Commoner priests  Incense bag o War machine, vast number of people who were in war fights

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o Military service was to help elevate them in society o Law that a man was to get married after they gone to battle and brought back a captive o Bring back enemy captives to be sacrificed o Sumptuary laws  Only nobles can wear textiles and certain clothes  Anyone else wearing fake or imitating higher class can be arrested Aztec Slavery o Aztecs were great gamblers  Gambling debt, makes you a slave Aztec Commoners Houses Aztec Sweat Baths o Way of physically cleaning oneself o Ritual purification o Purifying your soul Aztec Political Organization Aztec City-States/Atlepetl o largest empire down to smaller states Aztec Tlatoani (High Lords) The Triple Alliance – 1428 AD Peaceful City State Relations Military Competition o Conquer cities o Mexica proved dominance by killing patreon god o Military Orders  Rankings Outlying Provinces o Carefully chosen because they want certain resources  Cacao, jade, obsidian o Two classes of provinces  Technically only one class  Tribute provinces  Strategic provinces The Frontier o The Aztec-Tarascan Frontier in 1519 o Malinalco o The Fortress At Oztuma...