The Aztecs

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Geography

• Andes Mountains,
  
• Amazon River
  
• South America
  
• Caribbean Sea
  
• Yucatan Peninsula
  
• Central Mexican Plateau
  
• Describe Tenochtitlán
  
• surrounding landscape
  
  • aqueducts
    
  • massive temples
    
  • chinampa agriculture
    

Effects of geographic features on Indigenous

North American cultures
 

• clothing
  
• housing
  
• agriculture practices
  
• settlement of the Aztec civilization
  
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Political Structure

• built / controlled powerful empire
• much of Central Mexico

Economy

Cultural structures 

• varied languages
  
• customs
  
• economic / political structures 
• religious beliefs
  
• ​traditions of the society (religious background) 
  

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Important People

• Moctezuma II
  
• features of his reign. 

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