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• Incas
  • Open Market trading
  • Used roads and bridges for transportation.
  • Traded gold, silver, cocoa leaves, llama wool.
  • Religion: Human sacrifice, festivals.
  • Polytheistic: Kon, Chasca, Inti, Viracocha, etc.
  • Kingdoms: Kuzco
  • Dynastys: Supa Dynasty
  • Inca Civil War: Between two brothers, Fighting over the Incan Empire.
  • Capital of Inca: Kuzco
  • Math and Science: Quipu - Each knot represents numbers, the Incas used this to keep track of numbers. Incan counting boards were also used.
  • Calender System was made up of 12 months, 3 weeks to a month with 10 days per month.
    • Based off of astronomy.
  • Language/writing: Symbols
  • Agriculture: They didn't have domesticated animals, they used terraces, corn and potatoes. First civilization who used freeze drying.
  • How they lost power:
    • Fransisco : Spanish conquistador who led the Spanish to take over the Incas. The Incans were easy to take over due to their civil war going on at the time.
  • Interesting Facts:
    • Did a lot of skull surgeries.
  • BUI:
    • Mita- Labor tax on male citizens of the empire. People would pay taxes in actual labor.
    • Ayllu- Allyus were families living together and sharing land, animals, and crops.
• Native Americans
  • Trade - traded a lot of furs, steel, stuff to make weapons.
  • Religion - Pow wows, rituals, dances, oral stories, prayed to the spirits. 
  • Housing - Different story levels with ladders on the back to get to the upper levels.
  • Lost their power - Disease brought by settlers, land taken over by settlers. Cowboys.
  • Farming - Shells and animal parts used to aide in farming.
  • BUI:
    • Potlatch - Where the Natives would gather and celebrate feasts.
    • Odoodem - Paintings on wood. AKA. totem pole.
    • Pueblo - Houses made of mud bricks.
  • Language - More symbols, yeee.
  • Stone arrow heads.
• Aztecs
  • Facts about them:
    • Two different calanders, - one to tell time, one to worship gods.
    • In battle, if they ran out of food, they'd eat their enemies.
    • Blood was holy to them.
    • When they buried the person, they'd bury them in their house.
    • Wood was the primary resource they had for making weapons.
  • Language and Writing
    • When they were taken over, the Emperor burned a lot of their writings.
    • They didn't have a very broad vocabulary as far as we can tell.
  • Religion
    • Polytheistic
    • Kukulcan - God.
    • Bolon - God, also.
  • Temple of Mayor - Mexico City. They saw an eagle on a cactus eating a snake, so ...
    • They would do sacrifices there.
  • Science Advancements
    • Astronomy - 365 days a year.
    • Herbs for medicine.
  • Math advancements
    • Numbers based on twenties.
  • Moctezuma - Last Emperor of the Aztecs
    • Cortes and the Spaniards came.
  • Quetzalcoatl - Feathered serpent, Twin God.
    • Cortes was thought to be Quetzalcoatl, so the Aztecs handed over the empire...
  • Trade
    • Cacao Bean used for trade
    • Long distance trade was used.
  • Ag
    • Squash
    • Corn
    • Beans
    • Grown together to save nutrients
    • Called the three sisters.
    • Terraces.
    • Raised rectangular beds with shallow pools of water were used.
  • Obsidian
    • Volcanic rock used in the making of weapons.