Image from the Lord Kingsborough Antiquities of Mexico, photographed from the hand-colored originals, housed in the Dolores and John Mitchell Special Collections Room, the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Library, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas.		5 of 10   Aztec Empire
	AZTEC MEN he ideal Aztec man was diligent and obedient. Although every Aztec boy was raised to be a potential warrior, men also played important roles as priests, artisans, and merchants. At each boy’s birth, the midwife greeted him with a set speech: “You are a warrior, a quecholli bird, and this house where you have just been born is only a nest...your mission is to give the sun the blood of enemies to drink and to feed the earth with their bodies....” If a young man successfully captured four of the enemy, he was assured a good rank in the Aztec state and was allowed to wear emblems of higher status, such as embroidered clothing and jewelry.