This Concept Map maybe slightly hard to comprehend due to drawing abilities, but overall this did help me understand the details more greatly by looking at them at a different standpoint. In my concept map I wanted to look more in depth into the early creation of the Aztec Empire. The first true leader of the Aztec empire was actually a new comer to land. The Mexica people were in a time of distress and leaders looked to him. The map showed that during his time. His people fell in the rapid orbit of the different states battling the Azcapotzalco people. The bottom half I wanted to look a little more in depth into their ideas of death. There are three types of deaths that are valued by these people. There was human sacrifice in order to please the gods to keep the sun shining and the rain to prosper the land. The death that was strictly frowned upon was the death of natural cause because it wasn’t viewed as heroic. So bodies would be wrapped and presented to Hades the “dark underworld”. The heroic viewed death was the most praised and the body would be taken to the “glowing paradise”.
