| A | B |
|---|
| Corn | The most common food eaten by the Aztecs. |
| Domesticated | Meat dishes came from domesticated animals such as turkeys and dogs. |
| Metal utensils | The Aztecs did not use knives and forks; useful metal was too scarce and expensive. |
| Food is scarce | It's winter and you are poor. People lined up for government food rations and hand outs from wealthy nobles. |
| Armadillos | Armadillos are a luxury food. Their shells are polished and used to make musical instruments. |
| Tlatelolco | Market in Tenochtitlan where city women went to market almost every day to trade food they had cooked or cloth they had woven for corn, vegetables, pottery, mats, and baskets. |
| Porters | Porters work for merchants. Merchants are business owners. Potters were hired to carry goods. |
| Risky travel | They traveled over snowy mountain passes and along rough, rocky tracks. They faced hostile people, wild animals, poisonous spiders and snakes. |
| Price of goods | Merchants raised prices due to dangerous travel to the markets. |
| Aztec power | The Aztecs organized farming and food supplies efficientlly. |
| Not enough wild foods | People would have starved if Aztecs were without corn and other vegetables. |
| Chinampas | Land reclaimed from the lake to plant crops. |
| Corn fruits and vegetables | were imported to Tenochitilan |
| Specialized workers | Aztecs learned to specialize their workers. Such as wood carvers, stonemasons, weavers, potters, and scribes. |
| Quetzal bird | The shimmering blue-green tail feather of this bird was valued more than gold. |
| Toltec era | Many craft skills originated in this era. |
| Government | Aztec government was strong and well-organized. |
| Judicial System | The Aztecs were strong, harsh and swift. |
| Aztec boy | It would be your destiny and your duty to fight. |
| Maintain life | The Aztecs relyed on winning new land and keeping control of conquered cities. |
| Ticitl | Aztec doctor |
| Herbs, magic, special diet, and fasting | Remidies the Aztecs used to cure people. |
| The gods | The Aztecs believed that diseases and their fate came from the gods. |
