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== Relationship with Aztec culture ==
The Aztecs designed their buildings to be functional for everyday life as well as having a major importance on buildings for religious practices, and for the gods that they worshiped. The architectural style of the Aztecs reflected relationships with a higher power. In Tenochtitlan, the layout of the city represented the birth of [[Huītzilōpōchtli|Huitzilopochtli]],<ref>{{Cite thesis|title=Towards an understanding of Aztec architecture and urban planning|url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0228255|publisher=University of British Columbia|date=2016|first=García Ocampo|last=Rivera}}</ref> the Aztec god of the sun and war.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Boone |first1=Elizabeth |title=Incarnations of the Aztec Supernatural: The Image of Huitzilopochtli in Mexico and Europe |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1006524 |journal=Transactions of the American Philosophical Society |year=1989 |volume=79 |issue=2 |doi=10.2307/1006524 |jstor=1006524 |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref>
The [[teocalli]], or pyramid-temples, were significant to Aztec religious practices. They were the sites of religious celebrations and rituals.<ref name=":0" /> The temples represented ascension. There were multiple torn levels, which each correlated with different classes. The Aztecs believed that ascension was the process of preparing oneself to please the gods. At the top was the main temple where sacrifices took place, since that was considered to be closest to the gods.{{fact|date=November 2024}}
In Cholula, Puebla a Central Aztec temple was discovered in 1978. This temple was used to worship their sun and war deity Huitzilopochtli, and the deity of fertility, water, and rain,[[Tláloc|Tlaloc]]. The temple contain alters where they would leave offerings, which were mainly animals and hand made sculptures. The temple also contained an alter where they would make sacrifices to the gods. They used red and blue paint to decorate the temple. <ref name=":3">Coe, Michael D. (2019). ''Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs''. Ancient Peoples and Places Series. Javier Urcid Serrano (8th ed ed.). London: Thames & Hudson, Limited. [[ISBN (identifier)|ISBN]] [[Special:BookSources/978-0-500-29373-7|<bdi>978-0-500-29373-7</bdi>]].</ref>
Aztec households were simple and uniform to the rest of the civilization. Houses could be one to two stories tall.<ref name=":2" />
There is a large circular building resembling a lecture hall that was believed to be a place were the Aztecs would hold governmental affairs.<ref name=":3" />
=== Separation of classes ===
Aztec culture had class stratification. The highest social rank was that of the priesthood, which permitted access to the temples and more exclusive quarters. Members of the priesthood lived near the temples in the central areas of the city, while people of lower classes lived increasingly further away according to their status. The sizes of domestic structures reflected differences in wealth, power, and status.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Smith|first1=Michael E.|last2=Heath-Smith|first2=Cynthia|last3=Montiel|first3=Lisa|date=1999|title=Excavations of Aztec Urban Houses at Yautepec, Mexico|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/972199|journal=Latin American Antiquity|volume=10|issue=2|pages=133–150|doi=10.2307/972199|jstor=972199|s2cid=163928344 |issn=1045-6635}}</ref> Those who were considered in the lower social ranks had homes made up of adobe brick, and varied in size.<ref>Smith, Michael E., and Frances F. Berdan. "Archaeology and the Aztec Empire." ''World Archaeology'' 23, no. 3 (1992): 353-67/ <nowiki>http://ww.jstor.org/stable/124768</nowiki></ref> Those who considered to be higher class had homes made of cut stone, they had more rooms and were larger homes compared to those of a lower class, they also found things of status like jewelry in these homes<ref>Hodge, Mary G. “Archaeological Views of Aztec Culture.” ''Journal of Archaeological Research'' 6, no. 3 (1998): 195–238. <nowiki>http://www.jstor.org/stable/41053158</nowiki>.</ref>
== Aztec architecture today ==
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