INCA, AZTEC, AND MAYAN CULTURE PROJECT

INCA ACHIEVEMENTS

• Imperial roads, suspension bridges, and their stone-masonry technique
• The roads connected into 4 divisions of the empire to Cuzco
• Was fast working and was able to get goods over efficiently

INCA ART

• Due to high amounts of gold and silver they had a ton of jewelry
• Fountains with stylized birds

INCA HISTORY

INCA DECLINE

• Conquistadors stealing gold from Inca shrines
• Spanish ruled Inca
• Basically everything was taken from them from the Spanish

AZTEC ACHIEVEMENTS

• Large technological achievements
• Expanded ares in the city
• Urbanized the land
• Created a calendar

AZTEC ART

• Aztec sun calander
• Mainly stone statues
• Music and poetry
• The art was mainly based around the God that they praised

AZTEC HISTORY

AZTEC RELIGION

• Gods: Huitzilopochtli, Tlaloc, Tonatiuh, Tezcatlipoca, Centeotl
• Practices: built homes, planted crops, and built a temple to worship Huitzilopochtli
• Beliefs: everyone must follow their divinely appointed role in order to maintain order in the universe
• Temple: stair step that led to the area Huitzilopochtli temple was held, sacrificial stone, tlaloc temple,chacmool, base was called the ‘pyramids of sun’

AZTEC DECLINE

• Hernán Cortés invaded and brought 500 men to help defeat the civilization
• Disease, mainly smallpox, has taken over and spread as well.

MAYAN ACHIEVEMENTS

• Brought the calendar system to its highest point of development
• Skillful workers, built pyramids, palaces, and ball courts

MAYAN ART

• Ornaments
• Architecture
• Wood carving

MAYAN HISTORY

MAYAN RELIGION

• Rituals included human sacrifice and bloodletting
• Believed in many different gods of nature
• Itzamná, the principal Maya god, ruled over the rain, sun, and moon deities

MAYAN DECLINE

• In 800 to 925, maya started to abandon their great cities
• Archeologists say that some reasons they fell was because of
• Warfare between maya states
• Overpopulation
• Drought