Aztecs
- Trade-crops bean,corn,squash, wasn't crucial would go and conquer tribes and gave them two options provide human sacrifices or give food
- Religion-temple of mayor largest temple, multiple alters to put live humans sacrifice them and roll them down temple, thought sun god needed blood/sacrifice daily for sun to go up sacrifice 20-50,000 people in a year, usually teens, still pure
- Kingdom
- Math
- go by 20s, 4 flags=80, higher numbers are different things
- Science
- calender, help with harvest
- Language
- Agriculture-
- planted wheat and corn, beans, create artificial islands using soil, mud and sand to make islands to farm on. otherwise they could support anyone
- power
- Spaniards took over power and wiped them out, polytheistic, prophecy that a god would come down and help them (would be white and had a beard) thought Cortez was him
- Cortez killed many people in the name of religion and brought diseases
- BUI
- Montezuma II-leader of Aztecs, when Cortez landed, was locked away when found out
- Obsidian -volcanic rock used in warfare more powerful then steel
- Quetzalcoatl- serpent like god led to demise of Aztec
Incans
- Trade
- traded cloth, gold, silver, lamas, ropes,
- Math
- quipo a way to keep track of numbers and yuppa way to write numbers
- Agriculture
- stable crops-corn,potatoes, grew crops on a step terrace farm land, peppers, sweet potatoes, beans, coco plants, bananas, beets,
- power
- Spanish conquest in 16th centuries
- language
- didn't have a written language, but a spoken language quipa
- Religion
- nature gods, sun god, creator god, earth goddess, moon goddess and sea goddess
- kings/royals were descendants of gods
- facts
- successful road system 18 miles long
- successful brain surgeries
- sacrifices only on young children 8-10 with braided hair and most dressed up clothes came from noble families
- kingdom
- had 7 rulers over a time period
- BUI
- Mit'a- mandatory public service in the Inca society, tribute to government
- Ayilu-basic political and social units of pre-Inca and Inca life
- Quipo-cryptic knotted strings used to encode and record information
Southeastern Native Americans
- Math
- Muscogee- counted on their fingers ran out used twos, two time mans hands=20
- Seminole
- Cherokee-sacred numbers, 4-cardinal directions, 7-for number of tribes
- Science
- Muscogee/Seminole-transportation walked on foot or made canoes
- Cherokee-used plant to cure illnesses for fever, to cure diseases installed the first telephone west of mississippi
- Language
- Muscogee-spoken in present day alabama and georgia, 6 different language
- Cherokee-symbolic
- Seminole-same language as Muscogee
- Religon
- cherokee-prayed to deer god to they would have food
- Seminole-believed in animal spirit helpers and each person had their own spirit helper
- Muscogee-worshipped animals and gods had dances
- Facts
- Cherokee-fought with british then later President Jackson
- Muscogee- lived near rivers.
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