What was the Aztec way of life?

Answer 1

We know something about how Aztecs lived from ruins of buildings, and remains of pottery, jewelery, and other artifacts which have been found. Archaeologists are people who piece together history from this sort of evidence. Often evidence is buried deep under the ground.

Most Aztecs were farmers. They lived in mud-brick houses near the Chinampas- strips of land they had reclaimed from the swamps. This was done by building up layers of mud and water plants, to keep out the water. They also hunted and fished for food.

They wove rafts out of branches, piled reeds on top of these and covered them with mud from the bottom of the lake. This made up their farm land.Aztec farmers grew all sorts of vegetables and fruit on their swampy land. They also hunted waterfowl and fished.

Ordinary people had very little. Farmers used wooden sticks for gardening and knives for hunting and harvesting. People made their own clothes. They dyed cloth to make the clothes, or sell at the local market. they slept on rush mats and cooked on a clay disc on three stones over a fire and stored food in clay pots.