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Bell Ringer

• Take out a piece of paper and a pen or pencil
• Answer Questions from the movie on Maya
• What happened to the losers of the Mayan
  ballgame?
• On what date did the Mayans predict the world
  will end?
• And Solve the Analogy
• Rome Military Maya __________

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Mesoamerica

• Maya
• Aztec
• Inca

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Ancient Aztec Civilization

• Take Out Flip Charts
• Were going to ancient Mexico in 1200 A.D.

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Aztec Civilization

• Advanced City
• Specialized Workers
• Complex Institutions
• Record Keeping Writing
• Technology/Science

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Advanced Cities

• Teotihuacán
• Means Place of the Gods
• The earliest large city in the Americas
• Was over eight miles wide
• Location of the Pyramid of the Sun - larger than
  the Great Pyramid at Giza
• http//www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?te
  oti01g.wavTeotihuacan

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Advanced CitiesTeotihuacán

• Pyramid of the Sun
• Largest pyramid in Mesoamerica - more massive
  than the Great Pyramid in Egypt

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Advanced Cities

• Tenochtitlan
• Capital of the Aztec Empire - founded in 14th
  century
• Political and ceremonial heart of the empire
• Built on on island on Lake Texcoco in the Valley
  of Mexico - connected to mainland by causeways
  and canals
• By late 1400s, may have been home to over
  300,000 inhabitants
• Location of modern-day Mexico City

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Advanced CitiesTenochtitlan
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Specialized Workers

• Social Hierarchy (class system)
• Noble Gentlemen
• Priest
• Warriors
• Merchants
• Farmers
• Slaves - debtors, criminals, P.O.Ws

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Complex Institutions

• Family
• Father - leader, protector, provider
• Mother - inferior to men responsible for the
  children
• Children - required to help at a young age boys
  educated in sciences warfare girls educated in
  homemaking

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Complex Institutions

• Religion
• Believed blood of sacrifices gave force to the
  sun
• Used human sacrifice to worship the sun and offer
  up blood
• Believed four previous worlds had been
  created/destroyed - humans, sun, moon created in
  fifth world

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• Aztec sculpture showing the importance of the sun
• Sun god Huitzilopochtli
• Over 13 feet in diameter

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Art -Sculptures were monolithic mono
one lithos - rock
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Record Keeping Writing

• Used codices glyphs to record rituals,
  conquests, rulers
• Mendoza Codex
• Complex document of historic, economic,
  ethnographic recordings
• Divided into three sections
• Dates back to founding of Tenochtitlan in early
  14th century

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• Stone of the Five Suns

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Bell Ringer

• Take out a piece of paper and a pen or pencil,
  and answer the following questions
• How were women viewed in the Aztec culture and
  what were some of their responsibilities?
• How did inhabitants of ancient Tenochtitlan enter
  and leave the city and how did they get around
  while in the city?
• Why was the ritual of human sacrifice so
  important to the Aztec civilization?
• What were the Aztecs beliefs about the sun?

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Objectives

• Continue exploration and understanding of
  characteristics of Aztec civilization
• Gain an understanding of Aztec Technology
  Science
• Gain a better understanding of ancient
  Mesoamerica by comparing and contrasting Maya and
  Aztec civilizations

• http//videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/23117-ancient-
  civilizations-of-mexico-the-aztec-video.htm

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Technology/Science

• Agriculture
• Chinampa - floating gardens
• Rectangular fields for planting crops
• 5 to 10 ft. by 60 to 120 ft long
• Separated by canals

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Technology/Science

• The canoe
• Used for transportation
• Fishing

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Technology/Science

• Medicine
• The Badianus Manuscript
• Americas earliest medical book
• No traces of European influence
• Prioritized herbal alternatives as opposed to
  surgical procedures

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Compare Contrast Mayan and Aztec Civilizations

• Read handout
• Work in pairs to answer both of the Review
  Questions at the bottom of the handout
• Answer additional questions as directed

http//videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/21923-inside-t
he-pyramids-end-of-pyramids-in-the-americas-video.
htm
http//videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/29573-as
signment-discovery-mexico-city-video.htm
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Answer these questions

• Continue working in pairs to answer the following
  questions related to the Text Summary and the
  Graphic Summary on your handout
• From where did the first Americans come?
• In what century was Tenochtitlan founded? What
  year?
• What was a Tribute as it related to the Aztecs?
• Describe/identify the locations of both the Mayan
  and Aztec civilizations.
• How were the governments of the Mayan and Aztecs
  different? How were they similar?
• What god of the Aztecs did they believe to be
  most important?
• Which of the two civilizations was know for its
  fierce warriors?