1. Mayans, Aztecs and Incans

2. Download the Mayan, Aztec and Inca Chart
Split into 3 groups – Maya, Aztec and Inca
In a Google Presentation tell us about your group: Capital, Location, Type of Government, Class structure, Economy, Religion, etc

3. Mayan Empire 2000 BCE – 900 CE Located in Mexico and Central America
Yucatan Peninsula
Economy based on agriculture (including irrigation) and trade.

5. City States ruled by Kings
- Upper Class: Priests, “Nobles” and Warriors
- Lower Class: Peasants who paid “Corn” Taxes
- No rights for women
- Chichen Itza and Tikal two great cities

9. Religion a major part of life.
Polytheistic – Each day of the calendar had a different god that ruled over it
The Maya worshipped in various ways often through Human Sacrifice

10. End of the Maya – 850 to 1000CE the cities were completely abandoned.
Achievements
Hieroglyphics
Complex 365 day Calendar system
Astronomy
Number system
End of the Maya – 850 to 1000CE the cities were completely abandoned.
No one is entirely sure why.

11. Aztec Empire Aztec – 1200 CE Located in Central Mexico
Crash Course :50
Tenochtitlan (Tee-noch-teet-lan)
Capital City
A manmade island
Emperor had absolute rule
Nobles – Gov officials, Priests and Military leaders
Commoners and Slaves

13. Economy based on Agriculture
Chinampas - farmland made from drained lake beds
Conquest, slaves and sacrifices
Trade with conquered groups
Aqueducts and Canals

14. Polytheistic – Main God was the Sun God
Priests were in charge of schools and were astronomers
Daily rituals and practiced human sacrifice
Decline – over expansion and Spanish explorers in 1521
New World 28:49

15. Conquest of the Spanish
1492 – Christopher Columbus crosses the Atlantic
He believes he has found a new route to India
New World 33:56
Soon realize it is a new undiscovered world
New peoples, lands and trade goods
Food, Gold and Silver
Columbian Exchange – Trade of new world goods for European goods
Europeans begin to conquer the Aztec and Inca looking for valuable minerals
Guns, Germs and Steel
New World 38:50

16. Centralized Government and built a road system from the capital Cuzco
Inca Empire
Andes Mountains of South America
1438 CE – 1533CE
Centralized Government and built a road system from the capital Cuzco
Calendar system and advanced bureaucracy
Polytheistic – Nature Gods
Machu Picchu – City built on a mountaintop to escape the Spanish
Decline – Civil war, Spanish
Crash Course 2:54