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Video playlist
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Aztec Introduction: classroom cinema
Introduction, setting the scene for Aztec times
Supports: book 'The Maya and Aztec'.
Playing time: 6 min (V381)
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Ancestors including Maya
Shows the reason that the Maya and Aztec rose to power.
Supports: books 'The Maya and Aztec and 'Exploring the Maya empire'.
Playing time: 7 min (V382)
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Clothes and fashion
Find out what was fashionable in Aztec times.
Supports: book 'The Maya and Aztec'.
Playing time: 5 min (383)
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Aztec market
Explains what kind of trading took place in the Aztec empire.
Supports: book 'The Maya and Aztec'.
Playing time: 5 min (384)
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Chinampas (market gardens)
See how the Maya and Aztec made productive food from the lake muds next to their city.
Supports: book 'The Maya and Aztec'.
Playing time: 4 min (V385)
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The temple
Explains the importance of the temple and some of the rights that were connected to it.
Supports: book 'The Maya and Aztec'.
Playing time: 4 min (V386)
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Living in an Aztec house
Describes the way that people lived, including medicines.
Supports: book 'The Maya and Aztec'.
Playing time: 3 min (V387)
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Olmec obsidian
Obsidian artefact made by the Olmec people.
Supports: books 'The Maya and Aztec' and 'Exploring the Maya empire'.
Playing time: 40 sec (V865)
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Making a basic meal
A video showing a basic stew being cooked. It uses modern tools but explains what it was, why it was made, and how it lasted as a key meal even to the present day. This example is using UK ingredients, but stews/pottages such as this were common for both the Maya and Aztecn peoples, and the rest of the world through the ages.
Supports: textbook 'Exploring the Aztec Empire' and 'Exploring the Maya Empire'.
Playing time: 8 min (V1040)
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