education
Aztecs have schools at all levels, regardless of gender, children and adolescents have schools for everyone, and everyone has to study. Since childhood, Aztecs have not only received education in nature, history, law, religion, sports, military affairs and science, but also received moral education.
trait
Like other ancient civilizations, the Aztecs also created hieroglyphs, and they also made paper for writing, thus leaving many ancient books for future generations. Their writing is ideographic and pictographic. For example, burning a temple means that a place has been conquered; Use antlers to represent deer. Besides paper, deerskin and cotton cloth are also widely used as writing materials. Some are written on stones.
literature
The Aztecs have a famous poem:
Do we really live on the earth?
Will not live in the world forever; Just a short stay.
Even jade will be crushed.
Even gold will be crushed,
Even the feathers of Lian Kai Thrall were torn.
Will not live in the world forever; Just a short stay.
mathematics
The counting method used by the Aztecs was decimal. Because their fingers and toes add up to 20 This method is widely used in their daily bookkeeping, transactions and tax registration.
The Aztecs also made their own calendars quite accurately according to the implementation rules of the sun and the moon and the changes of seasons. There are two calendars: one is the solar calendar, which divides a year into 18 months and 365 days; There are 20 days in a month, 5 days left, and one more day in leap year (once every four years). The second is "calendar", 13 months, 260 days a year. A month is also 20 days. These two calendars coincide every 52 years. These two calendars of Aztec people play an important role in many aspects: first, in agriculture, determine the agricultural time and guide agricultural production activities; Secondly, in chronology, it is used to record the development of history and the occurrence of historical events; Thirdly, in the aspect of sacrifice, the date of holding sacrifice ceremony can be determined to guide people's religious festivals; Finally, in astronomy, we can record the laws and phenomena of celestial bodies.
botany
The Aztecs have specialized research on plants. They also built botanical gardens to observe the growth process of various plants, study and classify their characteristics and uses, and apply them to medical treatment, handicraft production, food production and so on. There are four famous botanical gardens in the empire, which are located in tenochtitlan, Izz Tapala Pan, Teskoko and Waxtepec. Many botanical gardens focus on medicinal plants. Some botanical gardens also have clinics to treat diseases. On the basis of extensive application of medicinal plants, each tribe has a hospital to treat civilians. There are also some specialized hospitals.
astronomy
According to years of observation, the Aztecs have a certain understanding of the execution of celestial bodies. They not only measured the time of solar and lunar eclipses, but also recorded the motion cycles and trajectories of some planets that can be observed by the naked eye, such as Mercury, Saturn and Venus. These show that the Aztecs have a very high level of mathematics and a set of accurate calculation methods.
art
During the Aztec period, stone carvings were often used to depict people. These stone carvings are often gods and goddesses in Aztec mythology. In this rough copying process of goddess and goddess, it still shows the natural ability of ancient craftsmen to capture the light of characters' lives in this artistic field.
The Aztec painting art is embodied in ancient handwritten books. In order to record historical events, exchange ideas and convey information, they designed various ideographic figures on paper. The use of color is another artistic feature of the Aztecs. Among them, red and black are the most commonly used, and the Aztecs used colored manuscripts and sculptures to distinguish different gods.
build
The Aztecs have made outstanding achievements in architecture. Tetran City in Tenoch is built on an island in the middle of the lake, with three roads connected to the land and an artificial stone trough water supply system. There are 40 pyramid-shaped temples in the city, the largest of which has 144 steps. There are also white buildings, terraces, palaces, streets and canals, which are called "gardens of the world" by Spanish colonists. /kloc-At the beginning of the 6th century, this city had as many as 60,000 residents, which was one of the few big cities in the world at that time. The size of Aztec city and the technical design of its equipment surprised and envied the Spanish colonial invaders.