1. Welcome to the World of the Aztecs!

2. Aztec Tamales
The Aztecs loved to eat tamales which they usually filled with beans, fruit, peppers or fish.
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3. Aztec Tamales con.
Sometimes they filled them with insect eggs, boiled grasshoppers, snails or red worms. All of which were considered delicacies!

4. What are Codices?

5. Aztec Codices

6. Aztec Number/Counting System

7. Valuable Items to the Aztec
The Aztec prized not only gold, but also jade and rare feathers.

8. Aztec Calendar

9. Aztec Temple

10. Aztec Sacrifices
The Aztecs sacrificed an estimated 20,000 people per year to their gods.
Most of their sacrifices were prisoners of war. The Aztecs believed that war needed for their empire to survive!

11. Aztec Gods and Goddess

12. Aztec Art

13. Aztec Children
Aztec Children were sometimes punished by dangling them over a fire or pricking their hands with thorns!