Aztec
An ancient empire
Food/Drinks
Aztecs food contained a variety of things. The most commonly used food the Aztecs ate was maize. Even now, mexico still considers maize to be there top producing food. The Aztecs diet was mainly fruits, vegetables, and animals. The two flavors that the Aztecs had were chocolate and vanilla. A drink that was had often was light alcohol. However, this drink wasn't something they drink from sunrise to suset. This is because if they got caught drinking to much, they would get punished.
Culture
The aztecs population consisted of about 15 million people that lived in cities and town. Their culture was a combination of religous beliefs and myths. A big part of everyones daily life was listening to music, dancing, palying sports, and games. One of the very strange things they did was sacrafice humans for religon beliefs of the gods.
Clothing
Aztecs clothing was often wore lose and did not cover the whole body. The fabric was mostly used from cotton or fiber. Like most places, women made all the clothing. People like slaves, only wore a long piece of cloth that tied in the front. To decorate their clothing, they would put gold on it to make it have some sort of a design.
Dances & Games
Dances and games were used to entertain themselves. Every class had games for everyone to play. Since, the Aztecs were very religous, there games somehow involved a way of using a belief of their religon. One of the oldest and important game that the aztecs played was called the ball game. This game involved the teams to compete against each other to see who could get the stone through a hole first. All ages were able to play this game.
