Incas
Had markets for open trades
also had rodes and bridges
traded gold and silver
coco leaves and lama wool
had uman sacrafices
also held festivals for gods
polytheistic
kingdoms
Kingdom of Cusco
Dynasty
Sapa dynasty
Inca civil war
between two brothers
fighting over the Inca empire
Cusco capitol of inca
Math
Quipu
way of keeping track of numbers using rope and
calander made up of twelve months
three weeks in a month
Agriculture
one of the first to use terases
first to use freeze drying
How they lost power
Francisco Pizarro
conqured during the civil war
did skull surgeries
Mita was a labor tax on male citizens of the empire
ayllu were families living togethera dn sharing land, animals, and crops
Native Americans
trade
traded furs
traded for steel
religion
ceramonies
different levels
would have ladders to get to the higher levels
partially defeated by deseases form Europe
squash pumpkin sunflowers and corn
potlatch gathfer and celebrate
odoodem
takign a stump and painting on them
bows and arrows
used stones
partial downfall by cowboys
rituals and dances
Aztec's
two calanders
one for time and one for worship
used blood as a holy thing
bury family members in the house
used symbols and stuff
Itzamna
nature god they worshiped
Chac
Kukulcan
bolon
Templo Mayor
temple of sacrafice
Science advancement
astronomy
figured out there were 365 days in the year
herbs for medicine and spiritual
math
numbers based on twentys
Moctezuma
pretty much handed over the empire to the spanish
Quetzalcoatl
god
trade
trade with beans
trade center in the center of the cities
traded food and furs
squash corn and beans
terases
Obsidian
volcanic rock used for weapons
aztec religion- kukulcan
BUI- quetzalcoatl
obsidian
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