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Gold-silver-copper alloy figure of an Aztec warrior, who holds a dartthrower, darts, and a shield. Aztec warfare concerns the aspects associated with the military conventions, forces, weaponry and strategic expansions conducted by the Late Postclassic Aztec civilizations of Mesoamerica, including particularly the military history of the Aztec Triple Alliance involving the city-states of ...
Eagle warriors or eagle knights (Classical Nahuatl: cuāuhtli [ˈkʷaːʍtɬi] (singular) [1] or cuāuhmeh [ˈkʷaːʍmeʔ] [1]) were a special class of infantry soldier in the Aztec army, one of the two leading military special forces orders in Aztec society, the other being the Jaguar warriors. They were a type of Aztec warrior called a ...
Jaguar warriors were used at the battlefront in military campaigns. They were also used to capture prisoners for sacrifice to the Aztec gods. [2] Many statues and images (in pre-Columbian and post-Columbian codices) of these warriors have survived. [5] They fought with a wooden club, studded with obsidian volcanic glass blades, called a macuahuitl.
Pages in category "Warriors from the Aztec Empire" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. H.
The dress for Aztec royalty also varied from the dress for the elites. According to scholar Patricia Rieff Anawalt, the clothing worn by the Aztec royalty was the most lavish of all the garments worn by the Aztec people. [16] Their elaborate dress was also worn in combination with embellishments of jewelry, particularly in ceremonial occasions ...
Aztec metal axe blades.Prior of the arrival of the European settlers, see: Metallurgy in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica Large ceramic statue of an Aztec eagle warrior. The Nahuatl words aztēcatl (Nahuatl pronunciation: [asˈteːkat͡ɬ], singular) [11] and aztēcah (Nahuatl pronunciation: [asˈteːkaʔ], plural) [11] mean "people from Aztlán", [12] a mythical place of origin for several ethnic ...
The sculpture of Guerrero Chimalli is a 50 meters (160 ft) tall red Aztec warrior that holds a Chīmalli and a mace. It was created by Enrique "Sebastián" Carbajal. The sculpture itself weighs around 600 metric tons (590 long tons; 660 short tons), but the concrete plinth (which is 10 m [33 ft] high) and the 65 piles that support them increase ...
A Xicalcoliuhqui Chīmalli Aztec warriors as depicted in the Codex Mendoza, each one wielding a shield (chīmalli) Shield belonging to the Aztec king Ahuitzotl currently Museum of Ethnology, Vienna, Austria. Ceremonial shield (māhuizzoh chimalli) with mosaic decoration. Aztec or Mixtec, AD 1400-1521. In the British Museum