The Americas
Mayans invented chocolate
Incas created the road systems
Aztecs contributed medicine
Comparing and contrasting
Aztecs
- Native Aztlan
- Tenochtitlan
- four main classes:
- nobles
- commoners
- serfs
- slaves
- floating gardens- maize, squash, and beans
- expanded empire(5-6 million people)
- chinampas
- fierce conquests and shrewd alliances
- Mexico to Gulf Of Mexico to Pacific Ocean
- hieroglyphics
- council of nobles, priests, and military leaders elect the emperor
- They burned down trees to plant more crops
- raised fields to lift crops from flood waters
- abandon (return if it was fertile again)
- society was divided:
- nobles
- military leaders
- merchants
- farmers
- painters
- sculptors
- scribes
- Most supreme power: Tikal and Calakmul
- Cuzco
- Terraces
- Ruler Sapa Inca- gold symbol
- roads
- marriages- arranged
- government allotted part of the each harvest
- harvest: gold, copper, tin, and alloy
- ayllu assign jobs to families to work on land
- networks
- religion the people they conquered
Similar
- human sacrifices
- corn
- different classed of people
- polytheistic
- monumental architecture
- calendar
- Central Mexico