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Integrated Essay By: Amir Mohamud The Aztecs were really engineers and scientists during the 16th century but didn’t know a lot about right or wrong, the Aztecs did many things in there time like human Sacrifices, worshiped there gods, and making eco friendly farms created by irrigation patterns. The Aztecs created many buildings, temples, shelters which created a big impact on how are buildings are made in our world today. Our world today can learn many things from the rise and fall of the Aztecs.

First, the Aztecs were known for war and sacrifices to there gods because the religion of the Aztecs required human sacrifices, their gods demanded these extravagant, frequent offerings.[1] The Aztecs were really killing themselves. When the hand-to-hand fighting began in a typical Aztec day, once they had won wars they had sacrificed the defeated warriors once they had captured them. Bernal Diaz’s //The Conquest of New Spain// includes eye-witness accounts of the remains of sacrificial victims. [2]

Second, in our world today we use natural resources, lots of energy, and a whole lot a fuels and oils for farming which is a big problem for us. The Aztecs came up with one of the greatest farming ideas which are not used in Canada today. The Aztecs created Chinampas Mexico.[3]  Our world today uses too much energy to make foods so if there is something our world today can learn from the ancient Aztecs is we should use less energy and use more Chinampas for planting and agricultural reasons. This we could use today in our world.

Third, the Aztecs where very knowledgeable they learned things very quickly as we don’t in our time today. Most of the Aztec advances in science were in the area of astronomy.The most accomplished was the stone calendar, this took them 52 years to build.[4]Aztecs were making advances of medicine as well. They experimented with herbal medicines.This made them very advanced. Our world today takes long periods to come up with medicines, buildings, etc. we can learn to experiment more. Clear evidence would be the swine flu it has taken us months to come up with a medicine, I think the Aztecs would have come up with a medicine if they were still alive in this time period.

In conclusion the Aztec were very smart people, they created agricultural ideas, medicines and sacrificed humans and so to conclude we can learn alot from the Aztecs.

1. www.latinamericanstudies.org/**aztecs**/**sacrifice**.htm 2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Bernal**_**Díaz**_del_Castillo 3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Chinampa 4.**library.thinkquest.org/16325/y-sci.html