The Americas: The Aztec

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The Americas The Aztec the Inca
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Aztec background
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Rise of the Aztecs
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Aztec Religion

• Huitzilopochtli (right)
• human sacrifice-

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Tenochtitlan
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Aztec Economy
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Aztec social classes

• The Aztec society was divided into three socal
  classes
• the pilli or nobility
• calpulli
• the pochteca or merchants and traders
• the macehualli (people) or peasantry
• Slaves or tlacotin

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Aztec Women

• Role of women
• Love and marriage (and marriage and marriage and
  marriage?!)
• Property rights

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The Inca
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Rise of Inca

• Quechua-speaking clans
• ayllus
• Sapa Inca

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Incan Conquest Religion
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Incan government
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Incan economy

• To trade or not to trade?
• Agrarian culture-terrace farming
• Mita

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Incan Women

• Womens duties
• Fertility goddess
• Parallel descent

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Inca Technology

• roads and bridges,
• Quipu
• Metalworking

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Questions?