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Ivana ndeki,period 2 Aztec&Inca (culture (clothing-The Aztecs wore…
Ivana ndeki,period 2 Aztec&Inca
culture
clothing-The Aztecs wore different clothes based on their age.Children younger than three wore nothing while children from age three and up wore blouses if they were a girl and capes if they were a boy.Most of their clothing was made from cotton and Ayate fibers{a type of cactus}.Women and teenage girls were tasked with the job of weaving the fibers in with the clothing. 
Food-The Aztecs were one of the first people to use agriculture so many of the foods they ate were the ones they planted such as: chilies,tomatoes, potatoes, limes, peanuts, maize , and chocolate.The Aztecs even made a special warrior drink with ground maize and fresh cocoa to help make you stronger. Many of the meats they hunted was turkey, dogs,duck,rabbits,ect
Jewelry-The Aztec made intricate designs their jewelry based on their religion or just straight out of their creativity mostly made out of the materials they could scavenge like copper,gold,silver,shells,obsidian,feathers,turquoise
Tenochtitlan-This city now known as mexico city was a beautiful city creatively engineered by the Mexicas or the Aztec native Americans .since this city was basically created on top of water the people of Tenochtitlan had to be very creative in the way that the kept this city together by creating cuasways and canals so their main way of transportation was canoes.
Fall of the aztec
Cortes
spanish conquistad in search for money,power, and land
arrived in mexico with 550 soldiers, 16 horses,14 cannons,and a few dogs thinking that it was enough before he met the aztec
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Aztec engineering
Chinampas
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The chinampas were actually small boats called rafts that were anchored to the bottom of the lake or were tied to a sturdy tree.
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temples
The Aztec temples were very different from the very well known egyptian pyramids because of their flat tops and unique fetures
The Aztec called their temples Teocalli. It meant the God house because of the temples religious uses.
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The "Templo Mayor"was the main temple of the Aztec people . It meant great temple witch was located in Tenochtitlan. The capital of the Aztec empire
Most of the Aztecs temples were built of stone stucco and a very special paint called polychrome paint.
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Inca engineering
fountains
before the Spanish took over their was fountains and pipework all over but know their is only one watercourse left
in the capital machu picchu there was one long stone canal that brought water from a spring that sent the water to sixteen other fountains throughout the town
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the Incas did not have much to build with other than stone so when they were constructing their fountains they tools they used were their hands and stones and sometimes bronze
The fountains were used for their irrigation system witch was their special way to help with their agriculture
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terraces
The Incas were the first people to invent terrace farming now used all over the world in agriculture
they lived in mountains making it hard for flat land so they build steps of flat land creating terracing
since the steps were made from stones during the day the stones would store the heat and at night it would distribute the heat to the plants.
also since the steps were made from stones erosion was impossible coming into the favor the Inca farmers
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culture
Family Life-The Incas liked living close to all of their family including their extended family. They had groups of extended family called Ayllus where they all lived next to each other in villages,farming settlements and farms.they all shared everything like one big family.
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Art-The Incas were very well known for their amazing artwork from metalwork,ceramics and most importantly their textiles. Which they used for fabrics in their clothing but most of their very important artwork was destroyed by the Europeans when they took over to show strength or for religious.
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Games-The Incas played the same games as the Aztecs , but one very popular game was Tlachiti. It was a mixture of soccer,basketball, and kickball. This game is even involved in their religion with the losers being human sacrifices.
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