the americas: the aztec & the inca
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The Americas: The Aztec & the Inca. Aztec background. Rise of the Aztecs. Huitzilopochtli (right) human sacrifice-. Aztec Religion. Tenochtitlan. Aztec Economy. Aztec social classes. The Aztec society was divided into three socal classes: the pilli or nobility *calpulli - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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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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Aztec Economy
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Aztec social classesThe Aztec society was divided into three socal classes:
1. the pilli or nobility*calpulli
2. the pochteca or merchants and traders
3. the macehualli (people) or peasantry
4. 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
• Women’s duties
• Fertility goddess
• Parallel descent
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Inca Technology
• roads and bridges,
• Quipu
• Metalworking
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Questions?