1 / 22

Aztec & Spain

Ms. Jeelani. Aztec & Spain. Appreciate how a society’s worldview influences the society’s choices, decisions, and interactions with other societies. Curriculum. Curriculum. How Aztec and Spanish identities and worldviews were affected by intercultural contact . Curriculum.

zalika
Download Presentation

Aztec & Spain

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Ms. Jeelani Aztec & Spain

  2. Appreciate how a society’s worldview influences the society’s choices, decisions, and interactions with other societies Curriculum

  3. Curriculum • How Aztec and Spanish identities and worldviews were affected by intercultural contact

  4. Curriculum • Appreciate and recognize how rapid adaptation can radically change a society’s beliefs, values and knowledge

  5. THIS IS A STORY ABOUT…

  6. AGE OF EXPLORATION Two societies, both wealthy and powerful. Building Empires Completely unknown to each other Teaser: they were about to collide

  7. Video • http://www.history.com/topics/mexico/videos#the-aztecs

  8. Quick Think What are the definitions, elements and factors Worldviews? What is history? Imagine the first contact between two groups who come from very different places with different histories and different worldviews. What would happen?

  9. FIRST CONTACT

  10. Aztecs and Spanish

  11. Societies

  12. AZTECS: GEOGRAPHY

  13. GEOGRAPHY CONTINUED • Can you say diverse? • Deserts • Mountains • Tropical Forests • Ranch Land • Rich Farm Land • Seacoasts (WEST/EAST) • PLATEAU – large raised area of mostly level land

  14. Rivers Rio Grande Usamacinta

  15. Usumacinta Largest rivers

  16. Pre-Columbian Meso-America Time in Americas before Columbus (1519) Region stretching from central Mexico to Nicaragua

  17. GEOGRAPHY CONTINUED Live in central basin aka VALLEY OF MEXICO Lake Texcoco: largest of five lakes CENTRE OF AZTEC CIVLIZATION

  18. GEOGRAPHY CONTINUED • Larger cities located around lakes • Increase of population of city dwellers • More reliance on farmers in the outer areas to meet their food needs • Variety of farming techniques, different kinds of food • abundance of corn, chili peppers, squash, tomatoes, beans, and other kinds of food

  19. IRRIGATION Stop and think…

  20. Irrigation Valleys  For Farming Dams divert water from natural springs to the fields Why? harvests on a regular basis

  21. Other Farming Techniques Slash and burn

  22. GEOGRAPHY CONTINUED Canals Waterways Transportation

More Related