Blogs

Mr. Bruns went through his presentation over the Great Depression:

http://www.slideshare.net/mrbruns/the-greatdepression-10964181

Temple Mayor was a building that the Aztecs owned back in the day. It was one of the main temples in their capitol Tenochtitlan. Today Tenochtitlan has become the capitol of Mexico, Mexico City. The architectural style indicates that it was built aro

glyph- element of writing; an individual mark on a written medium that contributes to the meaning of what is written
Popol Vuh- collected narratives of Mayan subjects like creations, ancestors and history
codex- folding books from pre-Colombian Mayan c

Inca empire

central kingdom. capitol is Crisco. Around the 14th century

Agriculture

Innovative- implement terraces.

hand plows- Chakitaqlla

Potato's and Quinoa- main crop

Trade

potato's and textiles- mostly self efficient

Religion

polytheistic- Viracocha(crea

Maya

Traded foods, raw materials

Sacrificed people to gods

fished and grew crops

pretty advanced

they can count

they could make calendars

hieroglyphics

popol vuh - explained the civilization

Incans:

Agriculture:

-one of the first to use terraces

-used hand plows

-culture and economy centered around agriculture

-main crops were potatos and quinoa

Trade:

-didn't do a lot of trading

-traded crops and textiles

Religion:

-had many gods

-viracocha-creato

Mayans

-advancements in science and math

invented the Mayan calender - 365 days a year.  Determined from looking at the stars

proposed the doomsday for the earth as December 21, 2012.

Used fingers and toes to count

Temples were dedicated to one god.

Southe

Mayans

Advancements 

-used dots as 1 and a line as 5.

-Made a calender (365 days) , and predicted that the world would end in 2012 dec. 21.Codex

Religion -Polytheistic-believed in many gods 

-most of the temples were dedicated to one god.

Trade

-Coco beans,

Mita- A form of mandatory Inca community service. Somewhat of a replacement for taxes.

Ayllu- Term used for the high-up villages in the Andes in South America. Incas. 

Quipo- The only known system of recording communication from the Inca Empire. Knot s

Mit'a- A form of mandatory Inca community service. Somewhat of a replacement for taxes.

Ayllu- Term used for the high-up villages in the Andes in South America.

Quipu- The only known system of recording communication from the Inca Empire.

Glyph- element

Incan-

Ag-Farming/ terraces

chakitaqlla

Potatoes/ Quinoa-food

Trade-Crops/Textiles

Religion-Polytheistic

Viracocha-creator

Inti-Sun

Language-Over 70 different languages

keshua

Math-Ropes for counting/quipo

Fall-Civil war

Killed brother, took over all of the empi

MR. Bruns was gone and we worked on our assigned blogs

Native Americans

Chippewa – grew wild berries and traded them. Used bones and teeth of animals for weapons. Spear fishing. Tribe is still active today in Minnesota

Lakota- Main thing they traded were hides (jackets). Thought dancing was their form of p

Native Americans

• Trades
• Sioux traded jewelry, precious jems, food
• Chippewa-traded wild berries for food and animals
• Lakota-traded hides, traded for horses and guns/weapons
• Religions
• Sioux-animals had spirits, thunder bird most important spirit
• Chippewa-had

Mayans

• Used fingers and toes to count
• Mayan Calender. 365 days
• Advancements of astrology and
• Loved stars
• Polythesistic
• Temples were dedicated to one god
• Located in the Yucatan Peninsula.
• Trades rock, salt, crops, and tools
• Used canoes to trade
• Syllabograms, lo

Built observatories

Itzanma- god of sky

Kukulcan- 4 elements

Chac- God of lightening and rain

Staple food was corn

Codex- ancient manuscript book

Popol Vuh- the sacred book of the Mayan Religion

Glyph- symbol of picture representing places

odoodem - totem po

Mayans:

Did the mayan calander 365 days a year. Used astronomy to predict solar eclipse- block sun lunar- earth is in shaddow.  Polytheistic religion. Traded by and and water. Cocoa beans were sacred. Salt was usedi n medicine. Used canoes is going by

Mayans

• Math and Science
  • had a counting system
  • calendar predicted the world would end, were wrong
  • used astronomy to predict the eclipses
  • had observatories to see the stars
  • Codex - book of astronomy
• Religion
  • Itzamna - god of creation and sky
  • Kukulcan - god of e

Im back..

Mr. Bruns explained the test

Evan Presented? He volunteered

Clothes washing

Gas Range

Radio

Sports - Boxing, Joe louis

FOOTBALL! New leather padding

Baseball - Black Baseball

Motersports