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Aztec and and Inca
Culture
Tenochitlan
Engineering
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The water also worked as a natural defense against attacks from other city's
The Aztec settled their because no one wanted that land
Food
Games
Clothes
The main thing the Aztec ate was maize (Similar to corn)
The Aztec ate a varierty of food including insects, fish, honey, dogs, and snakes
The Aztec also Ate beans and squash
The Aztec also used maize to make tortillas
The most Valued food was cocoa beans used to make chocolate
Another popular game was ulamalitzli
You Played ulamalitzli with a rubber ball on a court
They played patalli by rolling dice very common like other board games
When playing ulamalitzli by passing it with your hips shoulders, heads, and knees
A popular game was a board game called patalli
Poor people wore their own clothing
THe women wore long skirts and blouses
Poor people wives had to make thier own clothing
The men wore loincloths and long capes
The Aztec had some restrictions
Inca culture
Machu pichu
Fall of Inca
Located on a swampy island in lake Texacoco . In which now south central mexico
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Clothing
Religion
Pachamama was the goddess of earth or mother earth
Viraocha was the first god who created the earth ,the sky , te other gods ,and the humans
Mama quilla was the goddess of the the moon
Supey was the god of death and the ruler of the inca underowrld called the Uca pacha
Inti - Inti was the most important of the gods to the inca he was the god of the sun
Both men and women would wear capes or ponchos to keep them warm during the summer
Hairstyles were an important part of the Inca fasion
The women wore long dresses
The men wore long sleeveless shirts or tunics
Three sides of the cityare surrounded by cliffs hat drop over 1400 feet to the urubamba river
At fourth side of the city is a high mountain
It sits 8000 feet above sea levelatop a mountain in the andes mouantain range in southern peru
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Food
But they ate other things as well including tomatoes ,peppers,fish and ducks
The people ate well and were taken care of
corn,squash, and beans were the main staples of their diet
what people ate depended on were they lived
It was not a great place to build a city, but Aztec built islands were they could grow crops
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Fall of the Aztec empire
Hernan Cortes
Montezuma
Montezuma gave Cortes and his men gifts of gold He thought that these gifts would keep Cortes from talking over the city ,but they just made Cortes want more
Cortes took Montezuma captive within his own city. however,Governor Velasquez from Cuba sent another expedition under conquistador panfilo de Narvaez to take command from cortes
When Cortes arrived at Tenochtitlan on November 8,1519 he was welcomed by the Aztec emperor Montezuma II He thought that Cortes might be the god Quetzalcoatl in human form
After taking care of Narvaez , Cortes returned to Tenochtitlan he found out that his man had killed king Montezuma .He deiced to flee the city
On the night of June 30,1520 Cortes and his men escaped from the city many of them died (it is known as "la noche triste' or "the sad night")
Aztec conqured
Cortes heard of Christopher Coulmbous' discoveries in the new world. He wanted to travel and see new lands . He also wanted to make his fortune and fame
Hernan Cortes was born in 1485 in Medellin , Castile ,Spain
Cortes managed to escape with some of his men from tenochotitlan
He gathered a large force of natives including the Tlaxcalans to fight the aztec
He returned to Tenochtitlan and laid siege to the city
After three months of fighting ,he finally took control of the city and completed his conquest of the Aztec empire