Ancient America Flashcards
The Aztecs
Central American Pre cambrian people, they were big on warfare and human sacrifice, referred to themselves as Mexica people, the gods sent them a sign to where to put their capital - eagle on a cactus eating a snake, capital city - Tenochtitlan
Who was the first emperor of the Aztecs, and what did he do?
Montezuma the second, he burned temples, forced people to pay, and took empires down
What was the flower wars/scheduled war?
The goal was to gain prisoners for human sacrifices - extremely gruesome - 25 - 30 people a day
1487
Tenochtitlan was rebuilt, they partied by killing, island in the middle of the sea and you can only get there by roads
The Incas
Located in Peru, expanded and were surrounded by the Andes, biggest city was Machu Picchu, the biggest of all, send messages by using runners
The Mayans
The oldest, in Yucatan, founded around 1800 BC, most densely packed societies, in between the Incas, Chichen Itza and Uxmal, all controlled water
Mayan calander
calendar round - good for about 50 years, long count - measure of a long time
Who was the first explorer?
Christopher Columbus, militant christian, August 3, 1492, October 12, 1492, there were 4 trips totals, asks Portugal and they say no, then asks Spain they say yes, queen wants to spread christianity and destroy muslims, gets to india ohhhh they must be indians - silly goose, he is important because people followed
Who else cam after?
Amerigo the explorer found America who said “Chris your wrong this is something new not India”
Who were the queen and king of Spain?
Isabella and Ferdinand
