There were also several special commoner categories merchants, luxury artisans, priests, warriors, and slaves whose members occupied a position intermediate between nobles and other commoners. Analyses of quantitative variation in wealth inequality using the Gini index reveal an intermediate level of inequality in Aztec society. Keywords: inequality , stratification , social class , nobility , commoners , Gini index , calpolli.
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The Aztec people would dance, play music, tell stories and read poems. Music and dance was an important part of the Mesoamerican and South American culture. One area was where the family would sleep, generally on mats on the floor. Other areas included a cooking area, an eating area, and a place for shrines to the gods. More ancient Aztec games and sport Anything that tested skill and endurance was popular.
Children played with bows and arrows, marbles and stones. For the adults, dances and ritual battles were often considered a form of entertainment. Music was, of course, very popular. A human life was the most valuable sacrifice that the Vikings could make to the gods. The noble class consisted of government and military leaders, high level priests, and lords tecuhtli.
Priests had their own internal class system and were expected to be celibate and to refrain from alcohol. Failure to do so would result in serious punishment or death. The tecuhtli included landowners, judges, and military commanders.
Nobles were entitled to receive tribute from commoners in the form of goods, services, and labor. Noble status was passed on through male and female lineages, and only nobles were permitted to display their wealth by wearing decorated capes and jewelry. The commoner class consisted of farmers, artisans, merchants, and low-level priests.
Artisans and traveling merchants enjoyed the greatest amount of wealth and prestige within this class, and had their own self-governing trade guilds. Commoners generally resided in calpulli also referred to as calpolli , or neighborhood wards, which were led by a single nobleman and a council of commoner elders.
The Aztecs additionally had landless serfs and slaves. Serfs worked land that was owned by nobles and did not live in the calpulli.
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