ESP 1101 Lecture Notes - Quetzalcoatl, Feathered Serpent, La Noche Triste
22 Apr 2014
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Aztec empire: population estimates range from 5 to 25 million. They were told to settle where they saw an eagle resting on top of a cactus mexican flag. Aztecs had genetically engineered corn from teostinte, although no knows how they managed to do it. They managed through producing it to lower the poison content, no one knows how, or how they knew what they were doing. Their food was like human flesh: white and sweet. Bodies completely covered by clothes, except their white faces. Hair was often fair (alvarado) and also black and curly. Metal (iron) used to cover themselves or war, for swords, crossbows, shields and lances (aztecs did not use iron, only copper silver and gold, and only used for adornment not weapons) Spaniards estimated the population of tenochtitlan at 500"000. We always held that those who descended from him would one day come back to subjugate this land and take us as vassals .
