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Title: The Americas: The Aztec


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The Americas The Aztec the Inca
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Aztec background
3
Rise of the Aztecs
4
Aztec Religion
  • Huitzilopochtli (right)
  • human sacrifice-

5
Tenochtitlan
6
Aztec Economy
7
Aztec social classes
  • The Aztec society was divided into three socal
    classes
  • the pilli or nobility
  • calpulli
  • the pochteca or merchants and traders
  • the macehualli (people) or peasantry
  • Slaves or tlacotin

8
Aztec Women
  • Role of women
  • Love and marriage (and marriage and marriage and
    marriage?!)
  • Property rights

9
The Inca
10
Rise of Inca
  • Quechua-speaking clans
  • ayllus
  • Sapa Inca

11
Incan Conquest Religion
12
Incan government
13
Incan economy
  • To trade or not to trade?
  • Agrarian culture-terrace farming
  • Mita

14
Incan Women
  • Womens duties
  • Fertility goddess
  • Parallel descent

15
Inca Technology
  • roads and bridges,
  • Quipu
  • Metalworking

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