Administration buildings were there as well. Commoners lived at a distance and were organized into neighborhoods, called calpulli , with their own local temples and markets. Those populations included laborers and farmers as well as craft specialists such as potters, weavers, sculptors, lapidaries, featherworkers, and soldiers.
On a fateful day in August , life in this magnificent urban center changed forever. Shortly after the fall of Tenochtitlan, the Spaniards razed the already devastated city and built the capital of the Viceroyalty of New Spain on its ruins. They named the new metropolis Mexico City , which today, again, is one of the most populous cities in the world. King, Heidi. Matos Moctezuma, Eduardo. The Great Temple of the Aztecs of Tenochtitlan. In the centre of Tenochtitlan is the ceremonial precinct, with two towers — the twin sanctuaries to Tlaloc and Huitzilopochtil — framing the rising sun above the Great Temple.
Surrounding the ceremonial precinct are the royal palaces, further temples and houses, canals and trees, divided into quarters by four roads. On the left is a representation of the Gulf of Mexico, with Florida on the left and the Yucatan, represented as an island. Mexico Cartography The Aztecs. Related Articles. The city was crisscrossed by canals, and the edges of the island city were covered with chinampas, floating gardens that enabled local production of food.
Tenochtitlan was laid out in concentric circles, with a central plaza serving as the ritual precinct and the heart of the Aztec empire. The buildings and pavements of the city all barely rose above the level of the lakes and were grouped into clusters by canals and connected by bridges. A densely forested area—the precursor to Chapultepec park—was an important feature of the island, as was water control.
Seventeen major floods have struck the city since , one lasting an astounding five years. During Aztec times, a series of aqueducts led from the surrounding lakes into the city, and numerous causeways connected Tenochtitlan to the other important city-states in the basin.
Motecuhzoma II also known as Montezuma was the final ruler at Tenochtitlan, and his lavish main courtyard covered an area measuring x meters about x feet.
The palace included a suite of rooms and an open courtyard; around the main palace complex could be found armories and sweat baths, kitchens, guest rooms, music rooms, horticultural gardens, and game preserves. The remnants of some of these are found in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, although most of the buildings are from later times. Tenochtitlan fell to Cortes, but only after the bitter and bloody siege of , when the Mexica killed hundreds of conquistadors.
Only parts of Tenochtitlan are extant in the city of Mexico; you can get into the ruins of the Templo Mayor, excavated beginning in the s by Matos Moctezuma; and there are ample artifacts at the National Museum of Anthropology INAH.
But if you look hard enough, many other visible aspects of the old Aztec capital are still in place. Street names and place names echo the ancient Nahua city. The Plaza del Volador, for example, was an important location for the Aztec ceremony of the new fire.
After , it was transformed first into a place for the Actos de Fe of the Inquisition, then into an arena for bull-fighting, then a market, and finally into the current site of the Supreme Court. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data.
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