Презентация на тему The Aztecs

empires, was very diverse ethnically. Being a very young

state entity, in its structure it resembled the classical military despotism of the ancient Near East - it was more a single system of collecting tribute than a single system of government, which even gave Arnold Toynbee a reason for analogy with the Assyrian Empire

the identification of celestial bodies with supernatural beings, which

responded simultaneously for the good, and for the evil of human actions. The pantheon of the gods of the Aztecs included 63 deities. Among them were three great gods, four creators, 15 fertility gods, six rain gods, three fire gods, four gods of pulque, 12 gods of planets and stars, six gods of death and earth, four polyfunctional deities.