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Donovan Carter Period 5 Aztec & Inca/Done/ 75% (Machu Picchu (Machu…
Donovan Carter Period 5 Aztec & Inca/Done/ 75%
Aztec Culture
Food
They also had avocados. (yuck)
But they still had candy CHOCOLATE! :chocolate_bar:
Their main food was Mazie. (yellow corn)
Langauge
It belongs to the Uto-Aztecan family of languages
Nahuatl is a agglutinant language
The Aztec spoke Nahuatl.
Games
It was a gambling game using dried beans and pebbles
They also had a game called patolli.
They tlachtli a game mixed with basketball and soccer
Tenochtitlan
They had a system of canals and causeways
Tenochtitlan was built in the middle of Lake Texcoco
The view of Tenochitlan.
Aztec Engineering
Temples
They were made of stone with stucco and paint.
To build this it would usually take 78 years.
The temples were used for the gods they worshipped.
Chinampas
These could grow more crops .
They were made by sticks and reeds.
These are small farms in a island .
A chinampas
Inca Culture
Religion
They Worshiped Inti the Sun God
they practice polytheistic religion.
The Incas believed that the god Viracocha created the earth, stars, and all living things.They believed that he created the moon and the sun by plucking them from an island in Lake Titicaca
Food
They drink llamas milk.
They ate guinea-pigs for their daily protein.
They potatoes and corn.
Games
The had to get a ball through a small ring.
They played the same game Tlachiti
They could not use their hands
The loser DIES :skull:
It only happen on occasion
Inca Engineering
Terrances
This is use on steep hills.
They look like big stairs.
The Inca were the first one to use it.
This is building walls for farming.
Aqueducts
The water came from nearby river or fresh water springs on mountains. :mountain:
If it flooded :ocean: they would be alot of water for many things.
This was a super advance :arrow_double_up: system that allowed fresh water to come for thing they need.
Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu is believed to have been built by Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, the ninth ruler of the Inca.
It was build by using precisely cut granite stones.
Two structures are the Temple of the Moon and Sun
It was built as an estate for the emperor.
Fall of the Aztecs
Cortes
He was a conquistador.
He was from Spain.
He want to find gold and be rich.
Conquder
Smallpox was deadly
He had better weapons :crossed_swords:
Horses and animals they had never seen before.
Other tribes had helped Cortes.
Montezuma
June 1520 Hernan Cortes killed him.
He thought he was a god.
He wasEmperor
Fall of Inca
Conquered
Fake Treaty
He was cheated
Smallpox
Weapons :gun: :crossed_swords:
Pizzaro
He was a conquistador.
To get Silver and gold. :moneybag:
He was from Spain
Atahualpa
Pizzaro had made him fill a room with gold and siliver.
Pizzaro killed him.
He was also a emperor.
