DAPHNE PER.8

SOCIAL STUDIES PRESENTATION

THE MAYAS

• The mayas knew the movements of planets

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• Mayas were great farmers

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• They worshipped the gods of nature.

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• They used terrace to grow corn,squash and cotton on hillsides

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• Temples honored the rain and corn god

THE AZTECS

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• Island right in the middle of a lake in central Mexico

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• He said they should live where they saw an eagle
• Sitting on cactus with a snake

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• The Aztec god Quetzalcoatl most important

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• The myth tells he created the worlds formed humans
• And helped then grow corn

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• Because he had to solve problems among the gods
• He had to leave the aztecs

THE INCAS

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• Some incas lived in valley cities while others lived
• In the mountains

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• To make it easier to move through the mountains they
• Built rope suspension bridges

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• Fifteen thousand miles (24,140km) of stone
• Roads connected the six million incas living in the empire

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• They tradedwith each other's for the
• Things they needed

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• Most incas lived in stucco homes

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• Stucco is a thick mixture of sand and water that
• Hardens as it dries on the outside of stone building