1. CHOCOLATE AND THE AZTECS: Using a timeline.

2. Where is Britain?
Where is Mexico?

3. Can you find out when the Aztec Civilisation began
Can you find out when the Aztec Civilisation began? What was happening in Britain at that time?

5. Edward VI
1547
Mary I
1553
Elizabeth I
1558
Henry VII
1485
Henry VIII
1509

6. Hernando Cortez arrives in Mexico.
The Aztecs build Tenochtitlan.
Tenochtitlan is destroyed by the Spanish.
Montezuma II becomes ruler.
The Aztecs arrive in Mexico.

7. The Aztecs arrive in Mexico.
The Aztecs build Tenochtitlan
Montezuma II becomes ruler.
Hernando Cortez arrives in Mexico.
Tenochtitlan is destroyed by the Spanish.

8. What was it like to live in Aztec society?

9. Who’s who in Aztec society?
emperor
slaves
commoners
priests
nobles

11. Where did they all belong. Who was the most important
Where did they all belong? Who was the most important? Who was the least important?

12. emperor
nobles
commoners
slaves

13. Wore loin cloths What was it like to live in Aztec society?
Wore the best and most expensive clothes.
Wore colourful clothes, fur and jewellery.
Wore loin cloths and plain cloaks
Wore loin cloths
Wore colourful clothes, fur and jewellery.
Wore the best and most expensive clothes.
Wore loin cloths and plain cloaks
Wore loin cloths
Carried shields and clubs.
Wore big headdresses and clothes decorated with gold.
Some had to wear wooden collars.

14. What was it like to live in Aztec society?
Wore the best and most expensive clothes.
Drank 50 cups of
chocolate a day.
Drank chocolate flavoured with honey and pepper.
Ate meat such as turkey, rabbit and dog.
Were not allowed to drink chocolate.
Ate meat only on special occasions.
Ate pancakes and porridge made from maize.
Lived in a magnificent palace with beautiful gardens.
Lived in big brick houses with lots of rooms.
Lived in simple huts often of just one room.
Slept on mats on the floor.
Probably lived in a room in their owner’s house.
Wore big headdresses and clothes decorated with gold.
Wore colourful clothes, fur and jewellery.
Carried shields and clubs.
Wore loin cloths and plain cloaks
Wore loin cloths
Some had to wear wooden collars.

16. What happened to the Aztecs?

17. Priest
Hernan Cortez
Aztecs
gifts
Spanish soldiers
interpreter
Montezuma

18. Priest
Hernan Cortez
Aztecs
gifts
Spanish soldiers
interpreter
Montezuma

19. What happened after Cortez met Montezuma?

22. Our Lord, you are weary. The journey has tired you, but now you have arrived on earth. You have come to your city, Mexico. You have come here to sit on your throne.
Your city is amazing...We have not seen anything like it before... it is so clean!

23. While Cortez is away let’s attack the Aztecs while they are dancing!
While Hernan Cortez was away the Spanish soldiers attacked the Aztecs.

24. Listen to me... I am your Emperor.....Don’t Fight!
We want a new Emperor....Stone him!!
The Aztecs turned on the Spanish. Montezuma tried to persuade them to stop but they threw stones at him and killed him.

25. Every day we fight tremendous battles
Every day we fight tremendous battles... captured Spanish soldiers are used for human sacrifices!
The Spanish army defeated the Aztecs after a long fierce battle.

26. You are my slave now!
You have got a strange new disease.
The Spanish made the Aztecs their slaves. They did not treat them very well.
The Spanish gave the Aztecs diseases such as colds, measles and smallpox.

27. The Spanish pulled down the Aztec temples and built Christian churches
The Spanish pulled down the Aztec temples and built Christian churches. The Spanish stayed in South America for 300 years, that is why most people in Mexico today speak Spanish.

28. So....what did happen after Hernan Cortez met Montezuma?