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Delvon Randall Period 5 Aztec and Inca 100% :explode: (Tenochtitlan (As of…
Delvon Randall Period 5 Aztec and Inca 100% :explode:
Culture
Games
The Aztec liked to play games. One of the most popular games was a board game. The name of that game Patolli. Just like with many board games today, players would move their pieces around a board by rolling dice. I think it was played like monopoly but i'm not sure.
Another popular game was called Ullamalitzli . This game was played with a rubber ball it was played a lot.
The game Ullamalitzli was very hard to play they had to try to get a ball through a very small hoop only using their hips, shoulders, heads, and knees. Also the skulls of the players were set out on the court.
The ball game Ullamalitzli was played on a court. The players would have to pass the ball around without using there hands and feet.
For the Aztec people being sacrificed was a honor. So people aren't sure if the losers were sacrificed or the winners.
Clothing
The Aztecs had rules on the clothing.These included detailed laws specifying what clothing decorations and color different classes of people could wear.
For example only certain people could wear feathers the Nobles could. But not just anyone could wear feathers on their cloths.
It was the culture for the women to make both the husband and her own cloths. She also had to make cloth for the children.
another example of this is that only the emperor could wear a turquoise colored cloak. No one else could wear turquoise except for one person.
For the Aztec people men and women wore different things. The women wore long skirts and blouses. The men wore loincloths and long capes.
Family Life
The wealthy family's made there house out of stone and sun dried brick. But the king and his family lived in a palace with a lot of rooms and gardens.
The way that the family did things was very important to the Aztecs. For example the husband was the one who went out and did all the hard work.
You would never really find a woman out working. The men were usually a Farmer, Warrior, or Craftsman. The wife would do the regular home things that the entire family needed. She would do things like Cook and Weave the family's cloths.
The kids would usually just do kid things like go to school and help the mom with work around the house. To the Aztec people it was very important that the family was set up like this.
Poor people lived in smaller one or two room huts that had thatched roofs made from palm leaves.
Tenochtitlan
As of right now Tenochtitlan is modern day Mexico city. Yes some people right now are standing where the Tenochtitlan people stood.
Tenochtitlan was a very strategic build. They built it on water so that it is hard to attack.
Tenochtitlan was full or beautiful buildings such as Pyramids, Ball Courts, and Houses.
The buiding was so nice that the only reason they were conquered is because they let them in.
At the center of Tenochtitlán was a large walled building. The focus of religious activity, containing the main temples.
Aztec Engineering
Temples
There was certain temples for certain things for example they had a temple for sacrifices.
When the people of Tenochtitlan found a Pyramid they just built it up more instead of breaking it down. They some times put a temple on top of the pyramid
The Aztec people had a temple called the sacrifice temple and it was in the middle of Tenochtitlan.
In the rooms of sacrifice the Aztec people did not clean the walls.
Chinampas
Chinampas were, of course, not just used for the capitol city, but throughout the Valley of Mexico around the lake bed.
As the empire grew, more sources of food were required. At times this meant conquering more land, other times it meant expanding the chinampa system.
Tenochtitlan built on swampy but rich ground, the chinampas became key to the food production of the people.
Chinampas and other forms of Aztec agriculture actually come from the days before the Aztec empire. Chinampas farming was begun in Xochimilco and Chalco, and was probably quickly adapted by the Aztecs as these people became part of the empire.
Aztec farming has become most famous because of the brilliant chinampas system that Aztec farmers used.
Fall of the Aztec Empire
Cortes
Hernan Cortez was from Spain
Hernan Cortez was a Spanish Conquistador.
Conquered
Malintzin helped Cortez and gave him a layout of the base because the Aztecs were not nice to the neighbors.
Cortez knew how to use Spanish horses and guns to shock Aztecs.
Montezuma thought he was a god because he had things they have never seen before and did not attack right away.
Cortez brought diseases with him and it infected some of the Aztecs.
Montezuma
Montezuma let Hernan Cortez in because they thought he was a god because he came with horses, Swords, Armour, and guns. Which are things that they have never seen before.
No one knows exactly who killed him it could have been his own team but he was hit in the head with a rock and died.
Montezuma was the Emperor/King of the Aztec people. But mostly called the emperor .
Inca Engineering
Terraces
The most grown crop on terraces were potatoes.
Over the centuries, cisterns fell into disrepair, canal beds dried up and terraces were abandoned. This process began when the Spanish imposed their own crops and forced people off traditional lands to farm and mine for the conquistadors.
The terraces were built on the side of the mountains. They were built on on hilly areas.
The terraces kind of looked like green steeps because the land was a mountain so the had to make it like a stair case to me able to go and pick it without falling.
Terraces were what the Inca people farmed on. they got most of their crops from terraces.
Cuzco creation
The outline of the city was a jaguar. they praised jaguars so they had zoos of jaguars .
Cuzco is where the emperor house was located at.
Cuzco was the capital of the Inca empire so it was the main city and they built is with care.
Cuzco, founded in 1100 A.D., is the oldest continually inhabited city in the Western hemisphere.
Inca Culture
Art
Just as today coins and stamps reflect a nation's history, so, too, Andean artwork offered recognizable motifs which either represented the specific communities making them or the imposed designs of the ruling Inca class ordering them.
The Inca produced textiles, ceramics, and metal sculpture technically superior to any previous Andean culture, and this despite stiff competition from such masters of metal work as the expert craftsmen of the Moche civilization.
Gifted artists such as those from Chan Chan or the Titicaca area and women particularly skilled at weaving were brought to Cuzco so that they could produce beautiful things for the Inca rulers.
One of the reasons for repeated designs was that pottery and textiles were often produced for the state as a tax, and so artworks were representative of specific communities and their cultural heritage
Designs often use geometrical shapes, are technically accomplished, and standardized. The checkerboard stands out as a very popular design.
Food
They cut terraces into the hillsides, progressively steeper, from the valleys up the slopes so that they could farm in a neater and better way
The main crop that the Inca grew was Potatoes. They grew them on the terraces.
They had a wide variety of crops such as potatoes, quinoa and corn.
they grew there food on hilly areas. I wonder if that effected the way that it taste.
The Inca people ate primarily healthy they did not use sugar in there food.
Religion
The religion of the Inca was preoccupied with controlling the natural world and avoiding such disasters as earthquake, floods, and drought, which inevitably brought about the natural cycle of change, the turning over of time involving death and renewal which the Inca called Pachakuti.
Along with Titicaca's Island of the Sun, the most sacred Inca site was Pachacamac, a temple city built in honour of the god with the same name, who created humans, plants, and was responsible for earthquakes.
The Incas imposed their religion on local populations by building their own temples and sacred sites, and they also commandeered sacred relics from conquered peoples and held them in Cuzco.
The Incas imposed their religion on local populations by building their own temples and sacred sites, and they also commandeered sacred relics from conquered peoples and held them in Cuzco.
The pouring of libations, either water or chicha beer, was also an important part of Inca religious ceremonies.
Fall of Inca
Atahualpa
Francisco Pizarro made him fill a full room with gold and one silver for ransom and he did it but Pizarro still killed him.
Atahualpa was an emperor.
He was kidnapped and killed by Pizarro
Pizarro
He heard that there were a lot of riches in the new world.
he was also a Spanish conquistador.
Conquered
Pizarro blackmailed the people to fill a room with gold and 1 silver.
Pizarro kidnapped Atuhualpa.
Atahualpa thought he was crazy and didn't take him seriously. He thought how could he defeat an army of 80,000 people.
Pizarro had guns, swords, and Armour.
Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu was not the capital of the Inca people it was Cuzco
Machu Picchu was like a summer place for the emperor
Machu Picchu was where the Inca people terraces which are farm layouts. the mainly picked potato.
Machu Picchu was built on top of a mountain it was in what is now called the Andes mountains.
the entire purpose of Machu Picchu was a retreat for the emperor.