1. Mexico City La ciudad de los palacios La ciudad de esperanza Chilangolandia D.F.

2. MEXICO CITY IS LOCATED IN CENTRAL MEXICO • VALLEY OF MEXICO (VALLEY OF ANAHUAC) • 23 MILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN MEXICO CITY • IT MAKES IT THE SECOND LARGEST CITY IN THE WORLD • FEDERAL DISTRICT OF MEXICO • 16 BOROUGHS -> WITHIN EACH ONE THERE IS 100 OF COLONIAS • I.E. MIGUEL HIDALGO=> POLANCO

3. POWERHOUSE OF CULTURE • NOT JUST MEXICAN CULTURE, INDIGENOUS, AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES • 1/3 OF MEXICO CITY POPULATION IS INDIGENOUS: NAUHTL, MIXTECO, ZAPOTECO, AND OTOMI • HUGE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY THAT CAN BE REPRESENTED BY THE CUISINE IN MEXICO CITY • HAS THE MOST MUSEUMS IN THE WORLD • DIEGO RIVERA, BELLAS ARTES, FRIDA KAHLO, NATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY MUSEUM • MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN MEXICO CITY ARE CATHOLIC • GROWING ISLAMIC COMMUNITY (SUFI), JEWS, BUDDHISTS, HINDI, AND SANTARIA • CUISINE -> EVERYTHING

4. PALACIO BELLAS ARTES MUSEUM AND OPERA HOUSE AZTEC SUN STONE -> ASTROLOGICAL CALENDAR THAT DEPICTS FOUR PRIOR UNIVERSES Diego Rivera Mural Museum ALAMEDA PARK

5. PROBLEMS SMOG OVER THE CITY THE MOST DANGEROUS PLACE FOR CHILDREN OVER CROWDNESSES SLUM HOUSING URBAN POVERTY -> NOT HIDDEN CHILDREN BEGGING SHORTAGE OF WATER

6. PROBLEMS SMOG OVER THE CITY THE MOST DANGEROUS PLACE FOR CHILDREN OVER CROWDNESSES SLUM HOUSING URBAN POVERTY -> NOT HIDDEN CHILDREN BEGGING SHORTAGE OF WATER

7. AZTECS • 1325 TENOCHITLAN (MEXICO CITY) • MEXICA IS FOR ALL SPEAKING NAHUATL GROUPS • RULE OVER A POPULATION OF 20 MILLION • STORY TO THE VALLEY OF ANAHUAC • THE VISION OF EAGLE, PRICKLY PEAR CACTUS CLUTCHING A SNAKE • DOMESTICATED, BEANS, AQUASH, MAIZE • HIGHLY SOPHISITCATED IRRIGATION SYSTEM-> CHINAMPAS • STONE TOOLS-> OBSIDIAN • POLYTHESTIC GROUP MAIN GODS WERE • HUIZITLOPOCHITLI (GOD OF WAR AND SUN) • TLALOC (GOD OF RAIN) • QUQUETZALCOATL (GOD OF SKY AND CREATOR GOD)

9. MONEY WAS CACAO BEANS • SMALL RABBIT COST 30 BEANS • SOLD YOUR DAUGHTER TO BE SACRIFICE WILL GIVE A FATHER 500-700 BEANS :) • BEANS, SQUASH, CHAPULINES, MAGUEY, WORMS, ANTS, CHOCOLATE • DRANK MAGUEY/ PULQUE (WEDNESDAY PULQUE MARKET) • HARVESTED HONEY • HUMAN SACRIFICE • EXPANDED THE EMPIRE • SUN TO CONTINUE TO RISE AND FALL • POZOLE COMES FROM HUMAN SACRIFICE

10. Entertainment • Ball game • Dance, Song, Poetry, Theatre • can find examples in the codices City Planning • Templo Mayor was the center • Was for the worship of the two gods • Tlatloc and Huitzilopochtli • Built on artificial island on Lake Texcoco • canals, chinampa beds “floating gardens” • Spanish conquest destroyed them • bridges and dams • Canoes and human porters • Tianguis • aqueducts

11. Spanish Conquest • Cortez conquistador in command of the fall of the Aztec Empire in 1521 • Destroyed/ built on top of Aztec Monuments • Placed a cross were gods were at • replaced gods with statues of saints • Conquistadors brought germs • indigenous populations declined, but did not die • Mexico is rule under Spain until Independence