The Americas: The Aztec & the Inca
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The Americas: The Aztec & the Inca
Aztec background
Rise of the Aztecs
Aztec Religion
• Huitzilopochtli (right)
• human sacrifice-
Aztec Economy
Aztec social classesThe Aztec society was divided into three socal classes:
1. the pilli or nobility*calpulli
2. the pochteca or merchants and traders
3. the macehualli (people) or peasantry
4. Slaves or tlacotin
Aztec Women
• Role of women
• Love and marriage (and marriage and marriage and marriage?!)
• Property rights
The Inca
Rise of Inca
• Quechua-speaking clans
• ayllus
• Sapa Inca
Incan Conquest & Religion
Incan government
Incan economy
• To trade or not to trade?
• Agrarian culture-terrace farming
• Mita
Incan Women
• Women’s duties
• Fertility goddess
• Parallel descent
Inca Technology
• roads and bridges,
• Quipu
• Metalworking
Questions?