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Couple Things To Know: The Americas were settled around 13,000 years ago

The Americas. Couple Things To Know: The Americas were settled around 13,000 years ago Agriculture began around 4,000 years ago Powerful chiefdoms began around 3,500 years ago Agrarian Civilizations began around 2,000 years ago. The Aztecs. The Aztecs were ancestors of the Mayans

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Couple Things To Know: The Americas were settled around 13,000 years ago

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  1. The Americas • Couple Things To Know: • The Americas were settled around 13,000 years ago • Agriculture began around 4,000 years ago • Powerful chiefdoms began around 3,500 years ago • Agrarian Civilizations began around 2,000 years ago

  2. The Aztecs • The Aztecs were ancestors of the Mayans • Chichen Itza continued to grow • The Mexica (Aztecs) began to appear in Central Mexico in mid 1000 AD • They had aggressive behavior toward others of the region • Seized land and women • They Settled on an island in the marshy waters of Lake Texcoco and created a the great capital city , Tenochtitlan

  3. Chichen Itza Teotihuacan MAYAS AZTEC EMPIRE Tikal

  4. Tenochtitlan/ Mexico city The Aztec Empire

  5. Chinampas – floating farm plots that involved dredging rich soil from the lake and spreading it on the plot to grow crops Aztec farmers invented the unique chinampas agricultural technique Chinampas Agriculture The crops grew well, resources were plentiful, and the lake also provided a natural defense for the city

  6. Tenochtitlan As their society grew, the Aztec embarked upon more and more ambitious engineering projects: • constructing a dam to control lake levels • building causeways to connect their island-city to the mainland • and beautifying Tenochtitlan with wide roads, canals, temples and other monuments • all of this in the name of their powerful leaders matthoffmanblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/aztec-te...

  7. Powerful Leaders Build the Aztec Empire The Aztec Empire Grew Because… • 1 major government • Aztec Kings liked War • Itzcoatl (1428-1440) and Motecuzoma (also known as Montezuma, 1440-1469), • the Aztec attempted to spread their empire to all of Central America Motecuzoma : hedonia.seantimberlake.com

  8. Tenochtitlan in 1500 By the early 1500s, tribute from nearly 500 different subject states was flowing into Tenochtitlan, making it one of the great cities of Planet Earth By the time the Spanish Conquistadores arrived, the Aztec capital was home to 200,000 people, and had magnificent public buildings and a rich commercial market

  9. Reconstruction of the pyramids of Tenochtitlan ‘When we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading to [Tenochtitlan], we were astounded. These great towns and … buildings rising from the water, all made of stone, seemed like an enchanted vision from the tale of Amadis. Indeed, some of our soldiers asked whether it was not all a dream. It was all so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before.’ From the memoirs of Bernal Diaz, a soldier with Cortes

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