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Taylin savarino perid 6 Aztec and Inca (Tenochtitlan (Tenochtitlan is now…
Taylin savarino perid 6 Aztec and Inca
Engineering
Chinampas
Bringing the chinampa above the lake was often trees
These water beds harvested about 7 crops a year
The chinampas were separated by channels wide enough for a canoe to pass
These chinampas are mostly used in pre colonial mexico and central america
Chinampas was made by stacking out the shallow lake bed with wattle and the fenced off area was layered with mud lake sediment decaying vegetation
Temples
Temples were for religious ceremonies and sacrifices
The Aztecs believed the pyramids were home for the gods
Temples were tall structures forming four main platforms with grand stairways running up one side
Temples for the Aztecs symbolized the essence of the Aztec nation
The temples were designed using a ancient Mesoamerican architectual tradition
Fall of the Aztec empire
Cortes
Conquered
Montezuma
Culture
Food
The food that they used to pay with was cacao beans
Food was apart of their currency
There is a goddess of food called Chicomecoatl
One of the food of the food used today by the Aztecs are chocolate
One of the main food is corn
Games
The game tlachtli is played using a hoop made of stone and a rubber ball
To play tlachtli you have to put a rubber ball through the hoop made of stone without using your hands
Tlachitli is a ball game for teams its like a combination of basketball soccer and patolli
The game tlachtli is played all over mesoamerica by people like the Aztecs.
One of the games that the Aztecs and the Incas play is tlachtli
language
The god Tezcatlipoca the god of speech and language
Many Nahuatl words were borrowed by the Spanish
The Spanish had to learn Nahuatl to establish colonies
The language of the Aztecs was Nauhautl
Tenochtitlan
Tenochtitlan is now mexico city
Tenochtitlan had a giant golden temple in the middle of it
Tenochtitlan was built on a lake
They also did there human sacrifices on top of the temple
Inca culture
Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu buildings has been reconstructed to give tourist a better idea of how it originally appeared
Since 1976, thirty percent of Machu Picchu had been restored
Machu Picchu is one of the seven wonders of the world
Machu Picchu's famous structures are temple of the sun and Intihuatana stone
Machu Picchu is often referred to as lost city of the incas
Inca culture
games
Tlachtli was played with a rubber ball and a hoop made of stone
Tlachtli is a combination of basketball and soccer
You have to put the rubber ball through a hoop made of stone without using your hands
The game was Tlachtli
Inca's played the same game as the aztecs
religion
The god of sun was also an important god
The Inca's were polytheistic they believed in more than one god
They believed he created the sun and moon by plucking from a island
The Incas also believed heavily in the afterlife
Inca's believed that Viracocha created the stars earth and all living things
food
Almost every man was a farmer and produced their own food
Incas livestock was llama and alpaca
The Inca's were based on agriculture
The incas farmed using terracing to make their food
The Inca foods are sweet potatoes tomatoes and one of the main foods were llama
Fall of inca
Pizarro
Pizarro is from Trujillo Spain
Pizarro came to the new world because he had heard rumors of gold
Conquered
Atahualpa
Inca engineering
walls
The stone was carved to keep the stone together without using
The fine cutting was so precise they did not use mortar
The tools used to carve the stone was harder stones or bronze tools
It would take many months to make a single wall
the walls were made out of stone
canals
The water from the canals mostly came from near by rivers
Inca people built canals to increase arable land
workers dug tunnels and cut channels through cliffs
Inca's did not have to worry about scarce rain or a drought
Inca's could also stimulate plants to grow faster by getting enough water in time