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History and religion were taught for a couple of hours a day but, as they didn’t learn to read or write here, everything had to be remembered by heart.
Sadly, less is known about what girls learned at school as many of the details were recorded by the Spanish who took over the area in the early 16th Century. They were all men and thought it was only important to note what bOyS did. We know! sO unfair.
Did somebody say something?
However, it’s likely girls learned embroidery and weaving skills rather than learning how to kill people with swords and arrows like the boys did, which sounds much more civilized and far less bloody – unless you were EXTrEmElY bad at embroidery.
All in all, though, what with the pricking yourself with cactus spines, farm work and fighting, homework seems like a lOvElY DrEaM in comparison. Enjoy!
We´re literally RIGHT here!
Someone pass me a cactus spine.
The Aztecs used a mixture of glyphs (symbols) and pictures to represent the things they were writing about. If that sounds a bit odd, just look at the book you’re reading right now – glyphs (symbols called letters that are arranged to make words) and pictures that represent the things being written about. Hey! Perhaps you and the Aztecs aren’t so different after all.
These books are called codices (or a codex if just one book). Many of the most important ones such as the Florentine Codex, the Codex Mendoza and Codex Zouche-Nuttall are held in museums around the world.
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