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Caption: Prehispanic Cultures in America By Emilio Riofrío Maya - Aztec - Inca
Civilizations Maya - Aztec - Inca
Civilizations Maya - Aztec - Inca
Civilizations
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Caption: The Aztecs from Mexico Central Valley to zones of Guatemala. The Incas occupied territory along the West Coast of South America, from Ecuador to North Chile. The Mayas being the most antique among the three, established in Yucatán’s Peninsula, Honduras, Belize, El Salvador and Guatemala.
Picture of Chichén-Itzá
Caption: The Mayas • Appeared around 400 BC and ended abruptly around 1500 AD.
• Had for capitals, cities as Tikal, Chichén Itza, Copan and others.
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Caption: • They based their economy on farming (corn, beans) and trading.
• Rich in religious beliefs, the Mayas made sacrifices and had a vast variety of gods, from which Itzamna was the principal.
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Caption: • Had pictographs and social divisions. • Contributions as Monumental architecture, Calendar, Maths and Astrology. • Disappeared around 1500 without a trace (Droughts may have influenced).
Picture of Templo Mayor de México-Tenochtitlan
Caption: • From XIII Century to 1521.
• Had Tenochtitlán for capital. A magnificent city above water.
• Established there due to a myth, in which an eagle would eat a snake, and thereby edificate the capital in honor of Huitzilopochtli.
• Called themselves “Children of the Sun”. The Aztecs
Picture of Templo Mayor de México-Tenochtitlan
Caption: Social Systems,
Technology
and Contributions. Monumental mastabas, chinampas (agriculture), calendar. Different classes, warriors had high social status.
Picture of Templo Mayor de México-Tenochtitlan
Caption: End of civilization
• Cortés and the Spanish killed and dominated the natives until the empire ended and erased their cultural basis.
Picture of Cusco
Caption: The Incas The Incas • XIII century to 1572
• Their capital was Cuzco
• Spoke Quechua
• Had different social classes by hierarchy.
Picture of Cusco
Caption: Viracocha created everything.
Inti was the Sun God.
Mama quilla was the Moon goddess.
Pachamama was Mother Earth. Civilization ended by the civil war among the Incas and the arrival and conquest of the Spanish.
Picture of Cusco
Caption: Worked ores, specially gold, used in their clothes and some buildings. Terraces for crops, irrigation Cities on mountain tops.
Ingapirca and Machu Picchu for example. Did not have writing system. Used Quipus to keep records for finances and trading. More so over, they had developments in medicine with the use of special ivy and herbs. Potatoes were the basis of their diet.
Picture of Cusco
Caption: We often forget to look for beauty and uniqueness in the very place we stand...
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