Incas
- trade
- cloth
- silver
- llamas
- twine
- religion
- believed that life is in three relms
- mother earth goddess created two relms
- uku-goddess of the inner world
- kay-the god of the outer world
- inti-sun god, most powerful
- made up new gods for everything
- a giant festival once a month to praise gods
- writing and language
- knots in rope for writing
- achievements
- stone roads for 18000 miles
- math
- knots for numbers
- agriculture
- used terraces
- grew corn, potatoes, and beans
- discovering the cure for malaria
- how to use cocain
- lost power
- spaniards came and took over
- more illness
- interesting
- successful in skull surgeries
- 18000 mile road in peru
- bui
- ayllu-basic and political social units of pre inca and inca life
- quipo-ancient incan device for recording information, consisting of cariously colored threads knotted in different ways
- mita- tribute to the inca gov. in the form of labor
Aztecs
- writing
- pictographs and heiroglyphics
- agriculture
- small rectangular land to grow crops- chinopas
- bui
- obsidian-volcanic glass formed as a rock used to make weapons sharper
- montezuma-fifth aztec emperor who was killed during the spanish conquest
- Quetzalcoatl-was a christ like figure who was in the aztec times the creator of the earth. he said that he would one day return from his death to take back his throne
- trade
- used canoes and slaves to get their goods from one place to another
- religion
- made beautiful temples to worship in
- government
- the emperor maintained the empire with his army, appointed different regions to rule
- tecuhtli
- Acamapichtli-founder of the emperial dynasty, one of the first emperors
- power
- montezuma sent people to caurtez to convince him to leave the aztecs alone with gold
- a king that would rise from the seas to take power- aztecs thought cuartez was the god
- math
- used the same number system the mayans did
- science
- 20 days in each month with 5 spiritual days to equal 365 days in the year
- montezuma turned over the empire to cuartez,
- had many gods, the sun god needed a human sacrafice daily in order for the sunn to come up the next day
- cuartez encouraged sacrafices to weaken the empire
- they never sacraficed their own, sacrifficed neighboring tribes
Iroquois
- houses were built by rivers then moved to higher land to evade enemies
- sacred bowl game-marked the end of the year
- 6 festivals a year, to give thanks for crops
- named themselves the seperated nation
- had a council that they built their houses around
Pueblo
- built houses on cliffs
- different levels in houses
- kachina- ancestrial spirit to them
- little big horn battle
- french and indian war-fought with the french against the british
- religion
- life after death
- initiation rights, meeting with a priest, to become a medicine man
- had spirit animals
- bui
- Odoodem-native american term for totem pole
- Pueblo-series of small houses made from adobe
- Potlatch-festival where a person would invite people into their house to give gifts, the purpose was to share the wealth
- agriculture
- women planted
- crop rotation
- made tools out of bones
- corn, beans, squash
- fishing and hunting-used bones and rocks to fish
- math
- used different symbols for numbers
- trade
- traded within other tribes
- traded with white men
- furs for weapons
- horses
- native americans lived off themselves
- their style of living was based off where they lived
- they lived off the land
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