1. Topic: Mayas, Aztecs, Incas

3. Agriculture and Domestication
Beans, chili peppers, avocados, squashes, gourds, maize
Turkeys, dogs
No large pack animals- What did this mean for Society?
No animal Energy
Human Labor
No wheeled Vehicles

4. MAYAN CIVILIZATION Southern Mexico and Guatemala Rainforest
Specialization of labor
Priests were privileged class
Coco
City States
Mayan Kings took menacing names

5. Mayas Greatest Achievement
Developed picture writing and recorded much of their work in books made of bark
363 day calendar

8. Aztecs Originally nomadic
1345 settled in island region of Lake Texcoco and built capitol city of Tenochtitlan

11. Floating Gardens

15. SOUTH AMERICA Developed Largely Independent Gold, Silver, Copper
Cotton
Fishing
Potato
No Writing

19. Administration and Bureaucracy of Empire
No script
Quipu
Cuzco was the capitol
Road system connected the Empire

20. Priestly and Aristocratic classes “Big Ears”