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20. AMERICAS AND OCEANIA. AZTECS. Tenochtitlan Agriculture, warfare. Specialization Trade Large markets Urbanization Expansion. Hierarchy Military elite Males, warriors Priests Read omens, advisors. Merchants Pocteca Trade, intelligence Commoners Slaves. RELIGION. gods
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20 • AMERICAS AND OCEANIA
AZTECS • Tenochtitlan • Agriculture, warfare
Specialization • Trade • Large markets • Urbanization • Expansion
Hierarchy • Military elite • Males, warriors • Priests • Read omens, advisors
Merchants • Pocteca • Trade, intelligence • Commoners • Slaves
RELIGION • gods • Sacrifice • Humans • Priests: self-sacrifice
INCAS • Engineers • Waterways • 60 mile route • Roads • 380 K sq. miles
Military • Religion • Sun-god • Sacrifice
WOMEN – N.AMERICA • Power • Divorce • Matrilineal
WOMEN • Regional differences • Household • Influence: family • Property
Cliff Palace, at Mesa Verde National Park in southwest Colorado, was created 900 years ago when the Anasazis left the mesa tops and moved into more secure and inaccessible cliff dwellings. Facing southwest, the building gained heat from the rays of the low afternoon sun in winter, and overhanging rock protected the structure from rain, snow, and the hot midday summer sun. The numerous round kivas, each eavered with a flat roof originally, suggest that Cliff Palace may have had a ceremonial importance. CORBIS,NY
The City of Cahokia, with a population of more than 30,000, was the center of a farming society that arose on the Mississippi bottomlands near present-day St. Louis in the tenth century CE. The Cahokians built dozens of vast earthen mound covering six square miles, evidence of their complex social organization. SOURCE:Painting by Michael Hampshire.Community Life at Cahokia .Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site.
S. PACIFIC • Australia • Aborigines • Trade, culture
Asia: 6K years • Spread • Canoes • Hawaii, New Zealand • Americas? • Ship tech.