The Aztec News

History News

by Scott Steedman, Penny Bateman

At home or at school, this innovative title makes history come alive!

Welcome, stranger. You have arrived in the ancient and remarkable island city of Tenochtitlan, home of the mighty Aztec people. While you are here, pick up a copy of THE AZTEC NEWS and learn about our our politics, religion, trading and farming methods, medicine, military, and sports, as well as the latest news on the invaders who threaten the very existence of our civilization—all in THE AZTEC NEWS!

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Historical, Childrens, Picture Books

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[onysha · Rating 4 out of 5]

I still prefer "The Greek News" over this one. As always, it presented history in a clever newspaper format. It covers Aztec culture and religion rather extensively. That is good, as I've never read much on that aspect. Comes off as a little patronizing in tone, but just to mimic the style of writing in real newspapers. The jokes and puns are cheesy and eye-roll inducing. Overall, quite fun to read, and more accessible than a history textbook.

[Freya Abbas · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm so glad I picked up this edition of the Aztec news for 3 cocoa beans xD . This whole series is really fun to read and quite clever. It's like looking at history memes but a bit more educational. However I agree with another user's review that some of the jokes were kind of cheesy. I am thinking of reading the Viking News next.

[Ningyu Wu]

This book is about the Aztec empire, the aztec empire are in the between of the North America and South America. Nearly 400 years have passed our ancestor set out to memory of their courage, because the Aztec's god is telling them to move and they need to find new home for them, so the aztec's ancestors lead his tribe and stated a very dangerous journey. The journey is very hard and always have the danger animal and the ill lots of people is dead but the god don't let them stop so they carry on to go finally them finish, in that place there have lots of Fertile and rich land, but they found other tribe had already settled on the best land and built city, our ancestor begged for the help and were given a land that is no one live in here. but the god is telling them keep going and you can see an eagle settle on a cactus growing from a rock this would be a sign showing this is you guys's home. So, our ancestor keep move and finally they find their new home. The the aztec king Montezuma is build the house and they fight with and let them Surrender to him and he Order them to Tribute every year. So lots of country are Surrender to him and the aztec empire is stronger in that time, but the victory is not long in 1486 the aztec empire is losing the ruler and lots of country are Rebellious and the aztec's king of now is very stupid and luxury he use lots of the money of the country to play he don't care about his country and the country is at risk, So the people is want a new king and a new powerful king is come to the Throne he is Ahuizotl he fixes the aztec soldier's fear and
to fight with the other country, finally he defeat all Rebel and Order those country still to Tribute and the aztec again to the stronger. The aztec people's life is also great they living on the lake. So, they go fish and they do farming and they always eating the food outside because their house is very small and there is no space. The aztec people also do the trade with the other person or country there have lots of supermarkets on the aztec and also lots of other country is trade to them. The Aztec people also very to do the sports and they have their sports is called"Tlachtli" there have the match of this sports every year and lots of people were coming to see the match. The aztec people also know how made the Washing bathroom it is like the swimming poor but the water is hot the people can washing and it is very comfortable. This is all this book said and this book is powerful and great because it can let you to know this old country's history.

[Rob · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun little read as part of a series, nicely illustrated and a good format for learning a bit of history.

[SBC · Rating 3 out of 5]

The newspaper model was a fun and interesting way to deliver historical facts about a culture. A light introduction to the civilisation of Tenochtitlan. Of particular interest was the encounter between Moctezuma and the Spanish (under Cortes), the difference in fighting culture (to capture, not to kill, in order to have captives to sacrifice to the gods), the reasons for sacrifice (because the gods sacrificed themselves and had to be appeased in the same way, to bring the rain/tears, etc, and that it was an honour leading to reincarnation) and the ball sport tlachti.

[Laine · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the parts about their everyday life. I thought it was really interesting because their lives are not like ours.

[Delaney]

Amazing

[Abdulrahman · Rating 5 out of 5]

goos

[Raul S · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's ok.