3. AZTEC CULTURE By Donna Youn Aztec culture originated in present-day Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and Colorado. Education was for everyone despite your class or gender, but boys were taught more than girls. Girls would learn how to cook, care for a family, crafts, and ways to run the home. Boys learned how to trade, fight, and leadership skills. In the mid-teens, girls would either be sent of to marriage or stay in a temple and work. For children of nobles, their branch of education was the Calmecac. They would be educated as priests, teachers, doctors, and leaders. The rest of the other children would be telpochcalli, they learned more about culture, religion, and trades. Entertainment for the Aztecs was a ball game, ullamaliztli. It had a very religious aspect, the losing team would have to be sacrificed, because the ball represented a head and if the ball touched the ground, it was game over. The only way to win was to get the ball in the hoops on the side of the walls. When they were sick with a disease, they would call a religious healer and a medical scientist. If they died, they were either cremated or buried depending on their family's choice.