Encyclopedia - Ulama Game: Encyclopedia - Ulama Game
Ulama is a ball game played in Latin America, a variety of the Mesoamerican ballgame descended from an Aztec game ritual. The game is one...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ulama Game: Encyclopedia Ii - Ulama Game - History
The word Ulama comes from the Nahuatl word ullamaliztli ("ballgame"). In its heyday in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, ulama was played by the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aztec: Encyclopedia - Aztec
The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. They were a civilization with a rich mythol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aztec: Encyclopedia Ii - Aztec - Aztec Society
Aztec - Class structure. The society traditionally was divided into two social classes; the macehualli (people) or peasantry and the pi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aztec: Encyclopedia Ii - Aztec - Terminology
In Nahuatl, the native language of the 'Aztec', "Azteca" means "someone who comes from Aztlán", a mythical place in northern Mexico. How...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aztec: Encyclopedia Ii - Aztec - Human Sacrifice
Main article: Human sacrifice in Aztec culture For milenia, the practice of human sacrifice was widespread in Mesoamerica and South Ameri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aztec: Encyclopedia Ii - Aztec - Downfall
For more on the conquest of Mexico by Spain, see also Hernán Cortés. The Aztecs were conquered by Spain in 1521, when after long battle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aztec: Encyclopedia Ii - Aztec - Legends And Traditions
Aztec culture is generally grouped with the cultural complex known as the Capulli because of the common language they shared. According t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aztec: Encyclopedia Ii - Aztec - Diet
The Aztec created artificial islands or chinampas on Lake Texcoco, on which they cultivated crops. The Aztec staple foods included maize,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aztec: Encyclopedia Ii - Aztec - Rise Of The Aztecs
There were twelve rulers or tlatoque (singular: tlatoani) of Tenochtitlan: Legendary Founder: Tenoch 1375: Acamapichtli 1395: Huitzilihu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aztec: Encyclopedia Ii - Aztec - The Empire
The Aztec Empire is not completely analogous to the empires of European history. Like most European empires, it was ethnically very diver...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aztec: Encyclopedia Ii - Aztec - Education
Until the age of fourteen, the education of children was in the hands of their parents, but supervised by the authorities of their calpul...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aztec: Encyclopedia Ii - Aztec - Poetry
Poetry was the only occupation worthy of an Aztec warrior in times of peace. A remarkable amount of this poetry survives, having been col...   » Read the article