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NOTES - Exploration & Colonization, the Maya, the Aztec, and the Inca, and North American Natives As you read the online document I have shared with you, all 3 Kids Discover Magazines, the online eBooks, and the websites listed below in the North American Tribes Chart, make notes in each column for each topic. This should be organized, detailed, and thorough. This chart will expand as you type in it. Collaborate with you partner and work together to learn about these topics. You will turn in your work through Classroom when you are done. There is an online reading in Google Classroom. There are 3 Kids Discover Magazines (Maya, Aztec, and Inca). I have listed in 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 BE SURE TO USE ALL OF THESE RESOURCES TO MAKE YOUR NOTES!!! YOU MAY COLLABORATE AND LEARN FROM EACH OTHER! YOU WILL BE TESTED ON ALL OF THIS INFORMATION AND THESE ARE THE ONLY NOTES I AM PROVIDING ON THESE TOPICS FOR YOU!!! 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