Download 5.2 Identify the three major pre-Columbian

Aztecs Incas Mayas
By Victoria Greenleaf
Standards
• 5.2 Identify the three major pre-Columbian civilizations that existed
in Central and South America (Maya, Aztec, and Inca) and their
locations. Describe their political structures, religious practices, and
use of slaves.
• 5.4 Explain why the Aztec and Inca civilizations declined in the 16th
century.
• A. the encounters between Cortez and Montezuma
• B. the encounters between Pizarro and the Incas
• C. the goals of the Spanish conquistadors
• D. the effects of European diseases, particularly smallpox,
throughout the Western hemisphere
Aztecs
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The Aztecs sometime practiced human sacrifice.
The Aztec people were polytheistic.( they believed in many gods)
The Aztec people lived in N. America.
Mayas
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Mayas were polytheistic like the Aztec.
The Mayas had slaves that some time gained there freedom.
But the Mayas region did not contain much gold it wasn’t valuable to them.
Incas
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The Incas lived in S. America along the west cost.
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The capital is Cuzco
The Incas has no written language, but had spoken language
They had a
Pizarro took over the Incas because they had a civil war.
The civil war is having a fight with your own people.
Cortez
Cortez was not a god.
The Aztecs thought he was a god.
He traveled with 500 men and 16 horses to conquer the Aztecs capital Tenochtitlan in
the year 1519.
Cortez got the other tribes to help him so it made it easer to take over.
Pizarro
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Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador.
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Pizarro traveled with 180 men and 27 horses to conquer the Incas civilization.
The Incas civilization covered around 20miles on the west cost of S.Amarica .
They were 2hrs behind us
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Conclusion
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How did the Spanish explorers and conquistadors change Central and
South America forever? (Where do we see the lasting effect of these
conquistadors even in 2011?)