There was three main groups of people in the Aztec society. The Macehualtin, Pochteca, and the Pipiltin. The Macehualtin were the common workers such as the farmers and the craftsmen. Pochteca people were the traders for the civilization. Next, was the Pipiltin people. They were the nobles and the lords. The Pipiltin only wore clothes made out of cotton and jewels. …show more content…
Each god, goddess, or lord had their own temple that people worshiped in. Some of the important gods and goddess were Huitzilopochtli (God of War), Tlaloc (God of Rain and Water), Chicomecoatl (Goddess of Corn), and Quetzalcoatl (God of Life and Nature). They believed that the gods or goddesses had control over everything. So, the Aztec people had altars in their homes to worship these gods.
The Aztecs spoke in the Nahuatl language. Their writing system was with glyphs. Each of the glyphs represented a part of a word, a person, place, an object, or an idea. These glyphs were written on long sheets of cloth, pieces of tree bark, or an animal