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What was America
like before 1492?
1400
Difficulties
Could not read or write Knowledge of
immediate
surroundings
Age of Discovery
Famous Merchant
Marco Polo
China
Jewels Silk
Spices
Prisoner of warGenoa – 1298 Rusticiello
THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO
Christopher Columbus
The Aztec And
Inca Empires
THE AZTECS
Mexico - 1300
WARRIORS
LAKE TEXCOCO
Tenochtitlan
200 Years
EMPIRE
WARS
Fought all of the time
The defeated tribes had to give Food Treasure Prisoners to be sacrificed
Basket + Dirt = Floating Farm
Corn
Chilli peppers
Beans
Potters
Weavers Carpenters
1519 Hernando Cortés
HorsesGuns
QUETZALCOATL – THE SERPENT GOD
DISEASE
THE INCAS
In 1438 they defeated the Chime group
THE INCAN EMPIRE
Well organized
Everyone had work
Cities from stone
TYPES OF STRUCTURES
Temples
Observatories
Palaces
Ordinary homes
EMPEROR VISITED PEOPLE
LOYAL
CONQUISTADORS
1532
Francisco Pizarro Captured and killed the Inca emperor The empire collapsed within a few
years
The Mayan
Civilization
KINGS PRIESTS WARRIOR
S
GODS
Gods Kings were gods too
850
Moved north to Yucatán The Toltec settled in the Mayan city of Chichén Itzá
1500
The Mayan kingdoms had shrunk to just a few small towns.