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Location/Geographical Features of the Mayan Empire

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Located on the Yucatan Peninsula
Highland and lowland regions

Highlands: Cool, cloud-wreathed mountains
Lowlands: Dry forests and steamy jungles

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Cities of the Mayan Empire

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Don’t have a single ruler or capital city
Have city states-all independent and ruled by a king
Cities were used for trade

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Biggest city state of the Mayan Empire

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Tikal (no capital)

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Economy of the Mayan Empire

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City states were linked through trade

Agriculture

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Products of the Mayan Empire

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Salt, flint, feathers, shells, honey, craft goods (cotton textiles, jade)

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Mayan form of currency

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Cacao beans

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Mayan farming techniques:

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Terrace farming

Slash & Burn

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Mayan Social Classes

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King
The noble class: priests and warriors
middle class: merchants and artisans
bottom class: farmers
lowest class: slaves
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Religion and culture of the Mayan Empire

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Religion influenced most aspects of Mayan life
Polythesistic
Prayed, made food offerings, pierced and cut their bodies, offered blood, had human sacrifices
priests were very important
had a religious and solar calendar
used hyroglyphs for writing

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Fall of the Mayan Empire

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Mayans abandoned their cities

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Location/Geographical Features of Aztec Empire

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The Valley of Mexico
Large, shallow lakes
Fertile soil
Accessible resources

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Capital of the Aztec Empire

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Teotihuacán-planned city, island city

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Characteristics of the Aztecs’ cities

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Had roads and canals, planned cities, had temples similar to the Mayans

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Economy of the Aztec Empire

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Center of trade
Agriculture was important
Farming-used man-made reed mats

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Social classes of the Aztec Empire

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Had one king
Noble class: military leaders, priests and government officials
Commoners: merchants, artisans, soldiers and farmers
Lowest class: slaves

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Religion of the Aztec Empire

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Worshiped about 1000 gods
Had many religious practices
Made offerings
Made human sacrifices
Most important god was the sun god
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Role of priests in the Aztec Empire

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Recorded laws/ events, ran schools, treated illness, made predictions and sacrifices

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Fall of the Aztec Empire

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Montezuma demanded more tributes and scarfices which led to rebellion
Also-Spanish invasion

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Montezuma II

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Ruler of the Aztec Empire-demanded many tributes

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Triple Alliance Tenochitilan

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Association of the city states Tenochititlán, Texcoco, and Tlacopan which formed the Aztec Empire

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Quetzalcoatl

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God of the Aztecs

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obsidian

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Hard, glassy volcanic rock used by the Aztec to make weapons

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Capital of the Incan empire

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Cuzco

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Where did the wealth and power of the Maya come from?

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Trade and agriculture

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Where did the wealth and power of the Aztec come from?

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Farming and trade

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What is a conquistador?

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Spanish soldiers, explorers and fortune hunters who were part of the conquest of the Americas

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Ways the Americas changed after the Europeans arrived

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People spoke Spanish
People converted to Christianity
Had new clothing and laws
Blending of Spanish and native cultures
Forced to work
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Mestizo

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Intermarriage of Americans and Spanish

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Quipu

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Way of counting in the Inca Empire

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Ayllu

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Community service work in the Incan Empire

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Mita

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Groups for community service in the Incan Empire

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Atalhualpa

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Sapa Inca

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Quechua

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Language of the Incas

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Pachacuti

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Powerful Incan emperor

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Codex

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Books with pages that can be turned

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Encomienda

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A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it

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Hernando Cortes

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Conquested the Aztec

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Francisco Pizzaro

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Conquested the Incas

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Identify 3 ways the Incas created a unified empire

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Made roads, schools and had a common language

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