Mayas – 1000 B.C.E - 850 C.E.

Location: Rain Forests of Central America

Mayas

Cities: Capital-Tikal, Large cities; stone temples; sod homes.

Religion: Complex; human sacrifice, elaborate ceremonies to please the gods.

People: priests, nobles, farmers, slaves Achievements: scientific power; mathematics

(zero), 365 day calendar. Fall of Maya: 850 C.E. - Maya abandon cities

and disappear. Why this happened remains a mystery. Possibly disease.

Mayas – 1000 B.C.E - 850 C.E.

Mayas – 1000 B.C.E - 850 C.E.

Aztec 1300 C.E.- 1520 C.E. Location: Mexico

Tenochititlan: Capital city of Aztec; largest & most modern city in the world.

Built on a series of Islands on a large lake. Connected to the mainland by stone roads. Farmers raised crops on floating platforms. More than 200,000 people lived in Tenochtitlan.

Aztecs 1300 C.E-1520 C.E.

Aztec 1300 C.E.- 1520 C.E.

Aztec 1300 C.E-1520 C.E

Expansion of power: Military conquest; take over neighbors by force.

Religion: Human sacrifice, Quetzalcoatl, Emperor is a god.

People: Emperor, priests, nobles, merchants, peasants, slaves.

Achievements: Architecture , 365 day calendar, military power, heavy taxes, large military.

Aztec 1300 C.E.- 1520 C.E.

Aztec 1300 C.E.- 1520 C.E.

Inca 1100 B.C.E – 1520 C.E.

Location: South America, stretching along the Andes Mts.

Inca 1100 B.C.E. – 1520 C.E.

Cites: Capital-Cuzco. Their engineers built stone temples, forts, canals and bridges.

Cuzco was linked to other cities and towns by a great network of roads (Inca Highway)

Inca 1100 B.C.-1520 C.E.

Engineering: stone temples, human labor, earthquake proof.

Religion: worshiped sun, gold temples. Rulers wore gold and silver jewelry and had huge stone palaces. Emperor is god. Worshiped the sun.

Communication: Roads, tunnels, bridges kept empire together.

Inca 1100 B.C.E. – 1520 C.E.

Food production: terrace farming, potatoes, maize, kept accurate records.

Medicine: malaria cure, brain surgery.

Inca 1100 B.C.E. – 1520 C.E.

Inca 1100 B.C.E. – 1520 C.E.