Aztecs' Everyday Life

We learned in one of our readings about the Aztec Empire, how it was spreading, and their views on their religion and gods. This empire had a very large population, millions. I decide to research on the people and their everyday lifes. What were the childrens role? The mother and father? What did they do?

I came upon an exhibit about the Aztecs' and they had a section about the Aztecs' and their everyday lives called "Everyday Life in the Aztec World". The man of the house farmed and built the house. While the women was in charge of the house such as cleaning, cooking, she also made the clothing, and brought up the children. It was your usual house, the man brought the food and made sure the family had a house to live in. And the women, stayed home cleaning, cooking, and watching the kids. However the children didn't need much watching. Children in the Aztec empire had a very small childhood. They helped with household chores. Girls were taught to weave at the age of five, and the age of thirteen they were making tortillas, a typical everyday food. Parents were strict and were to be obeyed or else they would be severely punished. Education however was only allowed for the boys, nobility, and some of the lower class chilren had an education to become a soldier or priest. But it wasn't easy, it was tough too. Even though not all boys got an education, all of them learned at an early age how to care for a household. As mentioned before men farmed and the families goods' was their money. Their was no currency. There was a market at every village, and it was busy. Goods were exchanged for goods. The men and womens' production at home is was their money and the lived by that. As you can see a typical day in the Aztec Empire would be typical home with a little more strictness. People aren't that different then from now.