The Aztecs made chocolate with chili and vanilla and drank it hot. When the Spanish arrived carrying smallpox, they unwittingly spread the disease which killed most of the Aztec population. With few Aztecs remaining to defend themselves, the Spanish then took their gold. The Spanish brought chocolate to Europe and added sugar.

2. The Aztec`s made chocolate with chilli and vanilla
they also made hot chocolate out of it as well.

3. Then one day the Spanish people came with
small pox. Then the person with small pox
died then an Aztec came near and caught it
then spread it then all the Aztec`s died.

4. When the Spanish gave all the Aztec`s small pox
the Spanish took all there gold after that they
brought the chocolate back to Europe they put
sugar in the chocolate.

5. What the Aztec`s ate
(aMaize, a type of corn, was the Aztec's main
food source. The Aztecs also ate tomatoes,
avocados, atole type of porridge), tortillas
made from maize, and tamales, a kind of
envelope made from steamed maize stuffed
with vegetables or meat.

6. The yearly round of rites and ceremonies in
The Aztecs/Mexicas were the native American
the cities of Tenochtitlan and neighboring
people who dominated northern Mexico at the
Tetzcoco, and their symbolic art and
time of the Spanish conquest led by Hernan
architecture, gave expression to an ancient
CORTES in the early 16th century. According to
awareness of the interdependence of nature
their own legends, they originated from a
and humanity.
place called Aztlan, somewhere in north or
The Aztecs remain the most extensively
northwest Mexico. At that time the Aztecs
documented of all Amerindian civilizations at
(who referred to themselves as the Mexica or
the time of European contact in the 16th
Tenochca) were a small, nomadic, Nahuatl-
century. Spanish friars, soldiers, and historians
speaking aggregation of tribal peoples living on
and scholars of Indian or mixed descent left
the margins of civilized Mesoamerica.
invaluable records of all aspects of life. These
Sometime in the 12th century they embarked
ethnohistoric sources, linked to modern
on a period of wandering and in the 13th
archaeological inquiries and studies of
century settled in the central basin of México.
ethnologists, linguists, historians, and art
Continually dislodged by the small city-states
historians, portray the formation and
that fought one another in shifting
flourishing of a complex imperial state.
alliances, the Aztecs finally found refuge on
small islands in Lake Texcoco where, in
1325, they founded the town of
TENOCHTITLAN (modern-day Mexico City). The
term Aztec, originally associated with the
migrant Mexica, is today a collective
term, applied to all the peoples linked by
trade, custom, religion, and language to these

7. When the Aztec`s were around the books were a lot different. They wrote differently and
there pictures in they books were a lot different.

9. Mexican archaeologists have uncovered the
largest number of skulls ever found in one
offering at the most sacred temple of the Aztec
empire dating back more than 500 years.
The finding reveals new ways the pre-
Colombian civilization used skulls in rituals at
Mexico City's Templo Mayor, experts said.
That's where the most important Aztec
ceremonies took place between 1325 until the
Spanish conquest in 1521.
The 50 skulls were found at one sacrificial
stone. Five were buried under the stone, and
each had holes on both sides - signaling they
were hung on a skull rack.
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10. After the Mexicans (Aztecs) established
themselves on the island of Tenoch, they were
not able to build a temple worthy of
HUITZILOPOCHTLI. At the begining, because of
the lack of rock, they built it with sticks and
hay.
Then in the times of CHIMALPOPOCA they had
access to rocks, but it was not until the reign of
TIZOC that the temple aquired that vision of
magnificence that HUITZILOPOCHTLI paints, on
the bases that MOCTEZUMA protected. Finally,
the next Great Speaker AHUIZOTL, finishes and
inagurates the temple in the year of 1487