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NOTES - Exploration & Colonization, the Maya, the Aztec, and the Inca, and North American Natives
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the chart below websites on the North American Native tribes, and here are the names of the eBooks on the GoFollet App:
● Daily Life in the Maya Civilization
● What did the Aztecs do for me?
● The Incredible Inca
● The Exploration of North America
● The Exploration of South America
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Exploration &
The Maya
The Aztec
The Inca
Around 7,000 B.C.900 A.D.
Settled in the
Yucatan Peninsula
(present-day
Mexico, Guatemala,
and Honduras).
Started off as
hunter-gatherer
tribes and then
settled in small
villages, and
became a thriving
civilization.
Could read, write,
had the most
accurate calendar
of the ancient
world, math had
concept of zero.
1325-1519
Tenochtitlan was
capital (Mexico City)
and empire included
central Mexico.
Polytheistic religion:
very important to
these people. Had
large temples,
practiced human
sacrifice (killed
thousands of people a
year).
Social Hierarchy
Could read, write
(even had poetry),
had calendars (solar
and sacred), made
temples, and ball
courts (played a game
* Emperor's New
Groove
1100-1533
Empire was 2500
miles long down the
western coast of South
America (Peru, Chile,
Ecuador, Bolivia,
Argentina). Lived in
Andes mountains.
Had 12 million people.
Polytheistic religionritual human sacrifices
Government was very
organized. They
spread their empire
through war, threats,
and diplomacy. They
spread their religion,
laws, and spoken
Colonization
15th- 17th centuries
Five countries
participated: Portugal,
Spain, France, England,
Netherlands.
Looking for a faster/safer
route to Asia to trade
God, Gold, and Glory
Portugal: Prince Henry
the Navigator and Vasco
da Gama- sailed to India
by going down around
Africa. Colonized in
present day Brazil.
Spain: Christopher
Columbus found the
Americas by sailing west.
Magellan
circumnavigated the
world. Spanish found lots
North American Native
Tribes
Anasazi http://www.indi
ans.org/articles
/anasaziindians.html
500-1200 AD, Arizona, New
Mexico, Colorado and Utah.
Had complete irrigation
systems.
House made of adobe and
stone, were multi-storied,
apartment-like structureslived along walls of cliffs
built roads for trading
networks
Craftsmen made turquoise
jewelry , woven
baskets,(black on white)
pottery
Left perhaps from many
droughts
of gold and riches in the
New World. The
Conquistadors were cruel
to the natives by killing or
enslaving them. They
colonized the western
part of South America
(Inca Empire), Mexico
and Central American
(Maya and Aztec
Empires).
English: Sir Francis
Drake was a pirate for
England who stole from
the Spanish. They
colonized the east coast
of North America (13
original colonies).
France: Colonized in
Louisiana and other
areas of U.S. as well as
eastern Canada. They
were the nicests to the
natives. Fur trade.
Built temples,
palaces, ball courts
(played a game
with a rubber ball
and had to put it
through a small
hoop without using
their hands), paved
roads.
Temples suggest
they had a
polytheistic religion.
There is no
evidence of human
sacrifice.
The remaining
Mayans were
conquered by the
Spanish in the
1500s once the
Spanish had taken
over the Aztec
empire.
with a rubber ball and
had to put it through a
small hoop without
using their hands).
Conquered other
people around them
and made them pay
tribute (taxes), they
had fierce warriors to
make people follow
the rules.
Conquered by the
Spanish (Hernan
Cortes) in 1519.
language throughout
their empire to unite
the people they
controlled. Their
success was due to
their organization.
Government taxed
people through crops
and forced labor.
Had a social hierarchy
Master builders:
thousands of miles of
roads, had messenger
systems, hanging
bridges.
Had a complex system
of farming that
included stone
terraces and canals for
irrigation
Conquered by Spanish
Conquistadors, except
for Machu Picchu
because it was so high
up in the Andes
mountains that the
Spanish didn’t find it.
Adena http://nativeam
ericannetroots.
net/diary/844
Eastern Woodlands peoples
Lived in Ohio valley region
(Ohio/Kentucky) around 700
BC
Grew squash, sunflowers,
gourds, and barley
hunter/gatherers
Produces copper jewelry
and fine pottery
Long distant trade
Elaborate burial mounds
made up of log structures
covered by piles of earth to
bury their dead. Religion
seemed to honor ancestors.
(Serpent Mound)
Hopewell http://archive.a
rchaeology.org
/online/feature
s/hopewell/wh
o_were_hopew
ell.html
Eastern Woodlands peoples
Arrived in Ohio valley
around 300 BC
Lived in small villages
Grew sunflower, squash,
goosefoot, maygrass, and
other plants. Hunted and
gathered and fished.
Simple tools and pottery
Religion: shaman, guardian
spirits
Built mounds some were 40
feet high and 100 feet wide
extensive TRADE network
Adena and Hopewell both
referred to as “Mound
Builders”
Mississippians
https://www.ca
brillo.edu/~crs
mith/mississ.ht
ml
Mississippi valley by 800 AD
Farmed and when added
maize and beans had an
increase in population
Increase in population
caused need for more land
Trade network
Bow and arrow
Religion revolved around
agriculture
Created numerous cities
with up to 10,000 people—
largest was Cahokia
(located near present-day
East St. Louis)
In center of city of Cahokia’s
was a massive mound
aprox. 100 feet high base of
more than 14 acres-(larger
than Great Pyramid in
Egypt)
Surrounding this massive
mound were 120 smaller
mounds