Aztec society Aztec society Pre-Columbian Aztec society was a highly complex and stratified society that developed among the Aztecs of central Mexico in the centuries prior to the Spanish conquest of Mexico, and which was built on the cultural foundations of the larger region of Mesoamerica. Politically, the society was organized into independent city-states, called altepetls, composed of smaller divisions (calpulli), which were again usually composed of one or more extended kinship groups. Socially, the society depended on a rather strict division between nobles and free commoners, both of which were themselves divided into elaborate hierarchies of social status, responsibilities, and power.
Pot With a Lid, Tricolor (16th-15th centuries BC, Karashamb) Pot With a Lid, Tricolor (16th-15th centuries BC, Karashamb) Top With a Lid, Tricolor, from the 16th - 15th centuries BC was discovered in Karashamb. It is included in the History Museum of Armenia's collection under the number 3060-200. The pot is in the form of a barrel. The lip is straight, broken, and has two pairs of holes at the edge for hanging. Its surface is black, sealed, polished, and split into four sectors which are intermittently decorated with red okra and lit white paint triangles. The sectors are separated from each other by a pair of vertical lines