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Major accomplishments all:

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  1. architecture
  2. astronomy
  3. calendar
  4. math
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Incan empire

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-operated more like US with local and federal government
-ROADS
-Kipu

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3
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Mayan corn

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-Quetzalcoatl
-hormigas
-Parents: Dios Sol, Diosa Tierra

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4
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turning point for Mayans

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761 CE

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Before turning point

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-organized battles
-enslave enemies
-purpose for gaining power

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After turning point

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destroy and kill everything

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7
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Mayan Classical period

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250 CE to 750/761 CE

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Factors of Mayan Fallout

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  1. Overpopulation
  2. Natural disasters (sequia)
  3. resource failure
  4. famine
  5. erosion, bad soil
  6. abuse of land
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9
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Hernan Cortez

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Aztecs, 1519-1521

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Francisco Pizarro

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Inca, 1528-1532

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effects of explorers

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-columbian exchange
-catholicism spread
-spanish colonies

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12
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mestizos

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a person with mixed heritage, especially with European and Indigenous hertiage

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13
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______ language still exists today

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mayan

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el mestizaje

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the mixing of cultures to create something new and unified

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el mestizaje effects

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-new, unified/combination of catholoicism
-music
-food: arroz (espana) and frijoles (indigenous)

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rigoberta menchu

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-indigenous quiche heritage; ran away from Guatemala in 1981
-won the Nobel pace prize in 1992
-important portavoz (speaker)

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Ero Morales

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  • most famous indigenous leader
  • President of Bolivia since 2005
  • airmara hertiage
18
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tactics used to fight for indigenous rights: Rigoberta menchu

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win international support

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tactics used to fight for indigenous rights: CONAIE

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Form federations
(La confederacion de las nacionalidades indigenas del ecuador)

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Maya area

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ucatan peninsula

21
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Mayan population

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2 million people

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Inca dates

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1200-1531 CE

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Inca area

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Ecuador - Chile

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Inca population

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12 million

25
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Aztec dates

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13th - 16th century

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aztec area

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central mexico, Mexico City

27
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aztec population

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5-6 million

28
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Aztec facts:

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  • city-states
  • called themselves “mexica”

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