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Title: Pre-Colombian Civilization!


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  • Pre-Colombian Civilization!
  • Unit II
  • 600-1450 C.E.

2
Maya
  • 300 B.C.E.-900 C.E.
  • Golden Age 500-850 C.E.
  • Classical civilization
  • Southern Mexico (Yucatan Peninsula), Central
    America
  • Tikal

3
Maya - Political
  • City-states
  • Relatively autonomous, but united under one king
  • Warfare
  • Religious
  • Slaves
  • Geography

4
Maya Social, Cultural
  • Social structure
  • Kings, priests, nobility
  • Merchants
  • Peasants, slaves
  • Gender
  • Traditional roles for women
  • Inherit land

5
Maya - Religious
  • Three-part world view
  • Maize
  • Sacrifices
  • Pyramids
  • Calendar
  • Zero (Gupta!)

6
Maya - Economic
  • Agricultural
  • Slash and burn
  • Terrace, ridge field
  • Maize, cotton

7
Maya - Decline
  • Disease, drought, internal unrest
  • Remaining peoples
  • Rigoberta MenchĂș

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Aztecs
  • 1150 C.E.- 1450 C.E.
  • Central Mexico
  • Tenochtitlan
  • Quetzalcoatl

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Aztecs - Political
  • Expansionist, militant
  • Professional army
  • Sacrifices
  • Autonomy, taxes (no bureaucracy)
  • Roads
  • Inter-territorial trade
  • Guerras floridas

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Aztecs Social, Cultural
  • Social Structure
  • Warrior elite
  • Maya
  • Gender
  • Women subordinate
  • Inherit property
  • Commerce
  • Religion
  • Military and religion
  • Sacrifices

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Inca
  • Early 13th century- 1450 C.E.
  • Peruvian Andes
  • Cuzco

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Inca - Political
  • Expansionist
  • Inti
  • Professional standing army
  • Most united empire!
  • 1. bureaucracy
  • 2. unified spoken language (Quechua)
  • 3. roads
  • Chasquis and quipus

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Inca Social, Cultural
  • Gender
  • Women subordinate
  • Inherit property
  • Commerce (weaving)
  • More religious roles
  • Religion
  • Inti sun god, owns all
  • No private property
  • El Inca
  • Smaller-scale sacrifice
  • Morality
  • Machu Picchu

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Comparison - Politically
  • Motivations for expansion
  • Maya slaves
  • Aztec territory, sacrifices
  • Inca religious
  • Centralization
  • Aztec and Maya city-state autonomy
  • Inca most centralized
  • Bureaucracy
  • Unified language (Quechua)
  • Roads

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Comparison - Socially
  • All
  • Peasant majority
  • Slavery of conquered peoples
  • Women subordinate except
  • Inherit land
  • Commerce
  • Maya Merchant class
  • Aztec Warrior elite
  • Inca Religious elite, god-king (el Inca)

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Compare Aztecs to Romans
  • 1. roads
  • 2. autonomy but tribute
  • 3. adapted ideas from conquered peoples
  • 4. polytheistic

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AP Essays
  • Mesoamerican civilization Mayas, Aztecs
  • Andean civilization Incas
  • Be able to compare Mayas to Unit I classical
    civilizations
  • Understand how religion contextualized expansion
    (Unit II!)
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