Aztecs
- Trade: agriculture, beans, corn, squash, was not crucial, would go and conquer tribes 2 options: donate supplies or clothing or provide human sacrifices
- religion: temple of mayor, sacrificial place, would kill humans at top and roll them down thought that the sun god needed blood to show if not the sun would not show
- kingdoms;
- math advancements: numeral systems by twenty's and used symbols, calendar when to harvest
- language and writing:
- Agriculture: wheat and corn and beans, create artificial islands using mud for islands to farm on
- how they lost their power: Spanish took over-cortez thought their were not enough human sacrifices-caused many diseases
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- Montezuma II-Emperor of Aztecs when Cortez conquered land
- Obsidian: volcanic rock they used for warfare
- Quetzalcoatl- Surpant like god that led to the demise of the Aztecs
Incas
- Trade: gold, cloths, llamas, and pottery
- Religion: believed in Nature gods, sun god, creater god, earth, sea and moon goddesses.
- Kingdoms: south america 7 rulers over 100 year time period
- Math and Science: kippo tie knots for math, yeppa for writing numbers
- Language: spoke quicka
- Agriculture: ponea, corn, potatoes, grew all crops on a step terrus farm land, peppers, tomatoes, pineapple, avocado, peanuts, and beans.
- power lost: Spanish Conquest in 16th Century
- facts:created road 16 miles long, brain surgeries, sacrifices on children had to have braided hair and dress clothes sacrificed with knife, carried around knif and it showed how rich they were
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- Ayllu-the basic political and social units of Pre Inca and Ina life
- Mit'a-Mandatory public service in the Incan society- tribute to the gov't
- Quipo-cryptic knotted strings used to encode and record information
Southeastern Native American Tribes
- Muscogee, Cherokee and Seminole Math, mans hands minus two, used hands, sacred numbers for cherokee 4 (Cardinal directions) and 7 # of tribes--science used cyprus for conoes Cherokee-plant and installed first telephone west of MS
- Language: muscogee-spoke 6 different languages, Cherokee-cylabilic lang, seminold spoke mokosuki,
- Kingdom
- Religion: cherokee-deer god since was important to them or deer disapear, seminol-each individual had own spirit helper, muscogee-worshipped animals and had green corn festival
- facts-cherokee trail of tears
- florida seminoles
- muscogee-settled near rivers
Our Presentation (Mayans)
•Codex-Ancient manuscript book
•Popol Vuh-The sacred book of the Mayan religion
•Glyph- symbol or picture representing place names and names of gods. About 300 of them.
See Presentation for Rest of Information
Native Americans
- Trade: Soux traded gems and foods, could not trade with eachother because of same things; Chippewa traded berries; Lakota traded hides US gave them horses and guns
- Religion: Siox believed that animals had spirit; chippewa; same beliefs lack of resources so split up; jewelry sacred land places; boys were sent to a place to fast; Lakota dancing was their form of praying to beat of drum
- Agriculture: used bones and teeth from animals for weapons relied on wild berries; Lakota used buffalo hide for clothing fur for warmth ate meat; sioux soy beans and corn
- language: sioux eastern part; chippewa english but had more rythym;Lakota sonoan language wwinter counts for calandars and tell history
- math advancements: Chippewa fishing canoe; Lakota good warriors paint faces wore feathers; sioux axes and bowed arrows
- facts: sioux teepee buffalo hide and wood; chippewa canoe bark canoe hand crafted; Lakota wear similar clothing except had to do more chores
- Chippewa are in MN; Sioux still active NE and IA; Lakota still here South and North Dakota
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- Pueblo: modern and ancient communities of Native Americans in the Souhtwest United States
- Potlatch: gift giving celebration. Meaning "to give away" or "a gift".
- Odoodem; Totem Pol. Totem came for the Ojebwi word odoodem.
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