Target (don’t need to write)

1. Target(don’t need to write) • Recall how the Aztec used the environment to their advantage • Be able to use picture and word stimuli to analyze the extent to which the Aztec government influence society and economy

2. Review!Numbered Heads together • Discuss the question secretly as a group • Stand when you have the answer • Whichever seat number I call, that person stays standing and shows the letter answer they believe is correct

3. How did the (Mexica)Aztec use the geography of the land to their advantage? • They lived high in the mountains to avoid attack • They lived in swampy areas that were hard to traverse • They lived on a lake to avoid attack and trade via waterways • They lived in an oasis in a desert that would be hard to access

4. The Flowery Wars and the expansion of the Aztec show • How diplomatic the Aztec were • That the Aztec were a militaristic society • That the Aztec didn’t have a warrior class

5. What new farming techniques did the Aztec use to improve surplus and population? • Chinampas • Tenochtitlan • Dikes • Causeways

6. Dikes, causeway, and city planning all show • That the Aztec had a strong military • That the Aztec had a strong central government • That the Aztec worshiped the river gods • That the Aztec borrowed technology from the Spanish

7. The Aztec had a written language T/F? • True • False

8. Pick terms that describe the Aztec religion (can pick more than one) • Animistic • Mummify their ancestors • Polytheistic • Religious buildings at city center • Sacrifice

9. What was the Aztec social structure? • Emperor, Priests, Warriors, Peasants, Merchants • Emperor, Priests, Warriors, Merchants, Peasants • Priests, Emperor, Warriors, Merchants, Peasants • Emperor, Warrior, Merchants, Priests, Peasants

10. Due to the triple alliance, the Aztec not only engaged in War, but in: • Trade: putting a high value on the merchant class • Trade: putting a high value on the craftsmen • Diplomacy: putting a high value on the Priests • Diplomacy: putting a high value on women

11. Due to high value of the soldier and that agriculture didn’t need a plow: • People starved a lot • Children were the main food labor force • Women were that main food labor force • All of the above

12. INCA NOTES PG____

13. Inca Start in Cuzco • Peru / Andes Mountains Expand under Pachacuti • Creates a Centralized state

14. Trade and Travel • No wheel • Llama important for moving goods • System of roads and rope bridges • Runners who move messages verbally • Quechua is the language • Quipu: tool for messages instead of writing

15. Government Children taken hostage to ensure loyalty Descendants of Inti, Sun God

16. Innovation and Technology • Trade • Tributary system • Vertical archipelago : Different foods and products being made at different levels of the mountain • Agriculture • Terracing

17. Labor Systems Mit’a mitmaq • Labor draft • Rotating labor draft to create public works • Settlers sent out to different ecological floors/ climate regions of Andes • Here they would cultivate the crop best suited to that climate • They would then export crops to the central empire • First a food need, later a way to ensure loyalty of conquest peoples • Would relocate them to these different colonies

18. Inca v Aztec sort

19. Inca SAQ • Turn into bin when done

20. HW • Chapter 16 Sec I • Outlines • Vocabulary