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Ancient Civilizations

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

By: Zion Pattillo

Mayans

Location

The Mayans were located in Central America.

Mayan's Daily Life

  • The mayans would play a game called pok-a-tok
  • They hunted for turkeys, monkeys, deer, ducks, and fish.
  • They had many harvested many crops.
  • They worshiped many gods and believed in a Heaven, the Earth, and the Underworld.

S.T.E.M. Contributions

  • They could predict eclipses.
  • They made calendars based on astrological information.
  • Used heiroglyphs as a form of writing.
  • They built pyramids that were very different from all the other ones.

Aztecs

Location

They were mainly located in around Mexico.

Aztecs Daily Life

  • The boys would go to school to learn how to be warriors.
  • The girls went to school to learn how to take care of a family.
  • They had a polytheistic religion which means they worshiped many gods.
  • Their language they spoke was called Nahuatl.

S.T.E.M. Contributions

  • Pyramids were made of rectangular prisms.
  • Solved a way to farm in their bad soil called the "slash and burn" method.

Incas

Location

They were located on the West side of South America.

Daily Life

  • They harvested many different types of plants.
  • They had a polytheistic religion.
  • They worshiped mostly gods that had to do with nature.

S.T.E.M. Contributions

  • They created freezing units to keep food fresh longer.
  • They made calendars for religous purpouses.
  • They also created terrace gardens.