mayas – 1000 b.c.e - 850 c.e. location: rain forests of central america
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Mayas – 1000 B.C.E - 850 C.E.
Location: Rain Forests of Central America
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Mayas
Cities: Capital-Tikal, Large cities; stone temples; sod homes.
Religion: Complex; human sacrifice, elaborate ceremonies to please the gods.
People: priests, nobles, farmers, slaves Achievements: scientific power; mathematics
(zero), 365 day calendar. Fall of Maya: 850 C.E. - Maya abandon cities
and disappear. Why this happened remains a mystery. Possibly disease.
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Mayas – 1000 B.C.E - 850 C.E.
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Aztec 1300 C.E.- 1520 C.E. Location: Mexico
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Tenochititlan: Capital city of Aztec; largest & most modern city in the world.
Built on a series of Islands on a large lake. Connected to the mainland by stone roads. Farmers raised crops on floating platforms. More than 200,000 people lived in Tenochtitlan.
Aztecs 1300 C.E-1520 C.E.
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Aztec 1300 C.E.- 1520 C.E.
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Aztec 1300 C.E-1520 C.E
Expansion of power: Military conquest; take over neighbors by force.
Religion: Human sacrifice, Quetzalcoatl, Emperor is a god.
People: Emperor, priests, nobles, merchants, peasants, slaves.
Achievements: Architecture , 365 day calendar, military power, heavy taxes, large military.
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Aztec 1300 C.E.- 1520 C.E.
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Aztec 1300 C.E.- 1520 C.E.
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Inca 1100 B.C.E – 1520 C.E.
Location: South America, stretching along the Andes Mts.
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Inca 1100 B.C.E. – 1520 C.E.
Cites: Capital-Cuzco. Their engineers built stone temples, forts, canals and bridges.
Cuzco was linked to other cities and towns by a great network of roads (Inca Highway)
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Inca 1100 B.C.-1520 C.E.
Engineering: stone temples, human labor, earthquake proof.
Religion: worshiped sun, gold temples. Rulers wore gold and silver jewelry and had huge stone palaces. Emperor is god. Worshiped the sun.
Communication: Roads, tunnels, bridges kept empire together.
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Inca 1100 B.C.E. – 1520 C.E.
Food production: terrace farming, potatoes, maize, kept accurate records.
Medicine: malaria cure, brain surgery.
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Inca 1100 B.C.E. – 1520 C.E.
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Inca 1100 B.C.E. – 1520 C.E.