Women wore long skirts and blouses. Men wore loin cloths and a long capes. Poor people wove their cloth to make clothes. The men's daily role was being a warrior, a hunter, and keeping order in the family. The women's daily job was to wash clothes and cook. Girls helped their mothers and the boys helped their fathers.

The Aztecs used their natural environments to survive. They used wood to build canoes. They planted gardens and built houses. They hunted game and fished. The Aztec tribe used clubs, bows, spears, and darts for hunting. They farmed corn, beans, and squash and made medicines from plants so their illnesses would go away. They also created floating gardens to help produce more food for them to eat and these made dikes to hold back the water in swampy areas. They ate corn, beans, and squash.

Ullamaliztli, was a famous ball game the Aztec tribe played. These games were for children, adults, nobles, and commoners.

Mythology was a big part of the Aztec culuture. This tribe celebrated their gods of rain and lightning. Tlaloc was the rain festival that would start in February. The priest would perform a number of rituals to encourage rainfall.

The Aztec tribe had many stories and myths. An important myth is the legend of the five suns. The first sun was the Sun of Ocelot. This was a time of total darkness without thoughts and humans lived on animal type instincts. The second sun was the Sun of Air. The third and fourth sun was the Sun of Fire and the Sun of Water. The fifth sun is the current time and it is all of the previous suns put together. Most of the Atzecs eventually migrated to what is now the United States and became four different tribes, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokee and Muskogee.

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There is no today, the Aztecs were conquered by the forces under Hernan cortes in 1521. Many historians believe that modern day Mexicans are descendants of the Aztecs.

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