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10 Ancient America Civilizations - Coggle Diagram
10 Ancient America Civilizations
Inca
Location:South America, along the Andes Capital: Cuzco
Government: King at center of empire,War is for conquest
Religion: Many gods which was the Inti, mama Quilla,Pachamama, and Viracocha. And some human sacrifice
Daily life: For Inca nobles they had a easy life, but still had to work they could also own land and not pay taxes. For Inca commoners they worked all day the only time they didn't work was during religious festivals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO5ktwPXsyM
Maya
Location:Central North America Capital: Tikal, Chicken Itza, Copan, Mayapan, Palenque
Government: Well organized city states each with a king, war was for tribute
Religion: Many gods, king's blood is sacred, sacrificed animals some human sacrifice
Daily life: For Maya nobles, they lived an easy life, necessitates provided by commoners. For Maya commoners, the men would go work that the fields while the women stayed home and cooked until the husband came back crafting tools.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6eBJjdca14
Aztec
Location: Central America, Mexico Capital: Tenochtitlan
Religion: Many Gods, Sun God most important, human sacrifice
Government: Very powerful king, highly centralized, war was for captives and tribute
Daily life: Daily life for a typical person is hard work. Daily life for an Aztec family is that the husband worked as a farmer, warrior, or craftsman. The wife worked at home cooking and making clothing for the children. While the children went to school or helped around that their house.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mig0VtHe83M
Omlec
Location: Gulf coast of mexico and in the North America continent
Religion: Many gods, Gods take human-like form or feline, reptile, and bird-like form
Government: Priests and religious leaders had high power over civilization because of strong ties with religion and government.
Daily Life: Daily life for a typical Olmec person they were a farmer or fisherman who lived in family groups or small village.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dnXmAyolvA
Caral Supe
Location: Along the coast of central Peru
Religion: Gods like The Sun, The moon and four whitecaps, the star, etc..(which they represented as divine beings).
They made temples to venerate their gods and celebrate ritual dates. In fact the lords who governed could seems that they can communicate with their gods which guarantee the social order.
Government: The central organization of the population, distributed in urban settlements, led by political authorities.
They organized in families worked their own land and from their products, they had to give kind of tribute for their authorities. this population lived in small towns named “Pachaca”, these places were urban centers with a self-sufficient economy and managed by authorities called “Curaca”
Daily life: Daily life for a typical Caral Supe person they usually go fishing and only sometimes farm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k68CVL8LCXw
Tiwanaku
Location: The capital of the Tiwanaku Empire is on the shores of Lake Titicaca on both sides of the border between what today is Peru and Bolivia.
Daily Life: The Tiwanaku civilization farmed potatoes, quinoa, beans and maize grown. They also traded things drinking vessels or keros, incense burners, textiles, wooden snuff tablets and metal objects.
Government: The leader of the Tiwanaku civilization was the Huyustus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fuzsgwFzuI
Religion: The Tiwanaku civilization were polytheism so, they believed in more than one god like the sun god, thunder god, and viracocha.
Zapotec
Location: Monte Alban in the valley of Oaxaca in central Mexico
Religion: The Zapotec were polytheistic so, they believed in multiple gods like Cocijo, the rain god, and Coquihani, the god of light.
Government: The leader of the Zapotec civilization was the Zaachila I-III. Their governing elite believed that they were super beings
Daily Life: The Zapotec civilization farmed crops like coffee, corn, beans, squash, and sugar cane. They also fished, hunted, and gathered for food.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQoHlsZ_GD0
Nasca
Daily Life: Their food source was mostly from agriculture so they mostly farmed crops like, maize, squash, sweet potatoes, beans, manioc, achira, and peanuts. The other foods that they might gather is small amounts of fish and meats.
Government: The Nazca society did not have a unified government, rather it was a group of individual manors
Religion: Nazca's religious beliefs were based upon agriculture and fertility. Much of Nazca art depicts powerful nature gods, such as the mythical killer whale, the harvesters, the mythical spotted cat, the hummingbird, and the serpentine entity.
Location: South coast of Peru
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVah3ilw7hQ
Wari
Location: The Wari civilization was located in the central Andes mountains of Peru.
Daily Life: They would eat the dead bodies of their enemies, but also ate their own dead. They, made textiles and pottery and spreading their own branded iconography and leaving a lasting legacy in Andean art.
Government: Little is known about the Wari civilization government, mainly because they had not appeared to use a form of written record
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BK4TgrlrAk
Religion: They believed in the Staff God which was a major deity in Andean.
Mississippian
Location: The Mississippian civilization was located were in states like, North Carolina, northern Florida, and Illinois.
Daily Life: The daily life for the Mississippian they farming crops like corn, beans, squash, and sunflowers. They also hunted for meat and fish.
Government: . The group that the chief was in was called "The Elite". They had treated the chef and their family as Devine beings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xceWJgckvEw
Religion: The Mississippians believed that the animal were messengers to the gods and prayed for forgiveness for the animals they hunted.
