Annie+May

The Aztec civilization was large and the cities there were high-quality until they had a huge fall. Around 15 million people lived in 500 cities and towns. The Europeans didn’t find the Aztec civilization until 1519 where they spotted them in the Gulf of Mexico. Most of the cities there were large and more controlled than other cities in Europe.
 * Introduction **

Hernan Cortex was asked to describe what the city where the Aztecs lived looked like. As a symbolic gesture he crunched up a sheet of paper and threw it on the map. His gesture was described perfectly. He had described as full of mountains and rock. The Aztec civilization started in the northern part of Mexico is a place called Aztlan. From there one would be led to believe that their god Huitzilopochtli ordered them to migrate south. They were told to look for a cactus with a snake on it with an eagle perching on the snake. There is where they had to build their city and settle in. apparently this didn’t happen until 1325. Eventually the civilizations had up to 15 million people and 500 towns and cities. The Spanish people found the Aztec civilization living in the Gulf of Mexico in 1519.
 * Where and when did the Aztec civilization begin? **
 * Where the Aztecs lived ||

In the valley of Mexico there was a lake running through and in the middle of the lake there was an Island Tenochtitlan was based here. Tenochtitlan was founded in 1325AD. Once this Island was founded they started to build the city of Tenochtitlan. After the city was built it slowly became bigger and bigger before coming one of the largest cities on earth. It was suggested that over 200,000 people lived there before the year 1500. The ‘government’ brought traders, ambassadors, scribes and portieres into the city with tribute to all the gods. Many of the war prisoners were brought to Tenochtitlan to be killed or used as slaves. This city had 4 districts in it. Flowery place, Mosquito fen, herons home and the sacred precinct. All of these are all connected to each other and the mainland by canals and causeways made by earth.
 * Great city of Tenochtitlan **


 * Emperor advisors ||


 * Emperor ||


 * **SOCIAL PYRAMID** ||
 * Social and political structure of the Aztec society **
 * Slaves ||


 * People ||

Many of the Aztecs were smart and capable of handling most situations which helped their society to rise above. The society had a lot of differences and those differences put everyone in a rank. The emperor whom is on top of the pyramid rarely appears in public and is treated has a god. Next on the pyramid is the emperor’s advisers, senior adviser was deputy emperor. The emperor advisers dealt with the running of the emperor. 3rd on the pyramid is the nobles they governed the provinces and the officials controlled daily life. 2nd last on the list is the people. They take over most of the population and if you were born with parents that were just people than you were most likely going to be to. Most people were farmers and workers. Slaves are on the bottom of the list and they are mostly prisoners taken from war and some were Aztecs that were in trouble like found committing a crime or have a debt to society. The most important division was the nobles and the commenter’s. This decision was decided by the order of birth because it was extremely rare to become higher in the social pyramid. The only way to rise up was to be really brave throughout battle. Every city had its own rules. All judges had to be 100% fair and not be persuaded by bribes. Nobles had a harsher punishment than all below them because it was said ‘they ought to know better than others.’ Lying or disobeying can have punishments from helping slaves to death.
 * Nobles ||

Many of the gods that the Aztecs worship are more demanding and controlling than the people. The Aztecs believed that most of their gods could stop all natural disasters from happening. They believed that in order for their gods to be happy they needed to be praised with gifts and helped with their every need. The Aztecs thought that they probably didn’t have enough valuables to give, but eventually they all realized that the most important gift and the only real gift that they could give was life. So the Aztecs decided to present their hearts to the gods. They would sit the person down and cut out their hearts with a scoop shaped knife and hold the heart in the sky facing the gods. Most of the sacrifices were done with prisoners that had been taken from battle. As the civilization grew so did the amount of sacrifices, around 20,000 people were sacrificed each year. People were sacrificed as a tribute to the heavens.
 * The religion of the Aztecs **


 * Which way did the empire expand? **

The Spanish thought of the Aztecs as barbarians because of their blood thirsty lifestyle. War was essential to their life as they won their land from fighting their masters. After they had won they started to rely on war to help them survive. War had brought the Aztecs land, tribute, grass and farmlands. If they didn’t take the riches from war then the Aztecs would have collapsed. The bigger cities needed prestigious amount of tribute to feed the citizens.

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 * Bibliography **


 * Self-assessment **


 * Topic **

Puppy Farm


 * Goals: **

My goal was to raise people’s awareness to the fact of what puppy farms do and ask people to sign onto a wall t stop puppy farms.


 * How successful. **

I feel I didn’t reach everyone but i did get a lot of emails saying stuff like ‘Done, i now have a lighter conscience’ and ‘i feel i can now be proud of helping the community’ both of those quotes were real and there was other stuff as well. I feel i was successful at reaching the public as well because i put up some posters around Frankston and explain that you can help if you try.


 * What did you learn? **

I felt I learnt more than I originally knew about puppy farms I thought they were just people keeping dogs for money but as I found that that was what they were doing but it was more deep than that.

Johannes Gutenberg Leonardo Da Vinci Michelangelo

William Shakespeare-“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

Immanuel Kant- “Enlightenment is a man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.” “Sapere aude”

Galileo- “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same god who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

Machiavelli- “The governments of the people are better than those of princes.”

Thomas More- “Thus have I described to you, as particularly as I could, the Constitution of that commonwealth, which I do not only think the best in the world, but indeed the only commonwealth that truly deserves that name. In all other places it is visible that, while people talk of a commonwealth, every man only seeks his own wealth; but there, where no man has any property, all men zealously pursue the good of the public, and, indeed, it is no wonder to see men act so differently, for in other commonwealths every man knows that, unless he provides for himself, how flourishing soever the commonwealth may be, he must die of hunger, so that he sees the necessity of preferring his own concerns to the public; but in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity, and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties; neither apprehending want himself, nor vexed with the endless complaints of his wife? He is not afraid of the misery of his children, nor is he contriving how to raise a portion for his daughters; but is secure in this, that both he and his wife, his children and grand-children, to as many generations as he can fancy, will all live both plentifully and happily; since, among them, there is no less care taken of those who were once engaged in labour, but grow afterwards unable to follow it, than there is, elsewhere, of these that continue still employed.

Why were there different versions of the same story?

The stories were told in short and informative ways and long and informative ways some of them had only one or two sentences. “Icarus drowned.” Or take five. This was because he writer wanted to convey to the reader what happened in the end (Ircarus drowned.) for him to do that he told in different ways so that the reader caught the message because they had heard it so many times. There was six ways that the story was told the first was two words and that is easy to remember. The second way was just one short paragraph. The 3rd way was four paragraphs which told the reader what had happened before ‘Icarus drowned’. The fourth version was a couple of paragraph that was told from a different perspective again so the beginning was a bit different. The 5th way was 2 and half pages which was a lot more informative. The last way was two sentences and said, “Whichever way you cut it, it always comes out the same. Icarus drowned.”

There was a boy called Icarus, he was quite the ignoramus

He and his father were locked in a tower, because his father had absolutely no power

Can you imagine a man, who doesn’t have a clever plan?

They could have fought, but instead they thought

Then daedulus had an idea, with absolutely no fear

And then of all things, they built some wings

They were stuck with wax, trying to cover up all cracks

Daedulus made a devious plan, which Icarus chucked in the can?

He got to exited, and He Flighted

Icarus flew to high, nearly touching the sky

The wax started to burn, and Icarus started to turn

As he fell, he started to swell

As people looked up, they just thought “shut up!”

And a hybris fate, down splashed Icarus’ weight

They gave a big frown, and “Icarus drowned”