Aztec Informative Speech

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Hello, Senor Cortez, remember when you told me to get the information about the Aztecs well with my genius eye I got everything you need to know about. Let’s start with their early life for the Aztec let me show you. So the Aztec have slaves, but only the rich get the slaves. Now the rich had homes that were made of sun brick or sometimes stone that was coated in whitewash to make their house shine in the sun. To the Aztec bathing was very important, so the rich took a steam bath everyday. Their clothes are colorful and strangely decorated with feathers, you know why because the feathers were a sign of status and everything they wore was made of feathers. The poor are very different though let me tell you a little bit about them.

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