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Aztec
- Around (1160 CE)
- Claimed relationship to Toltec
- War God Huitzilopochi
- Placed selves under protection of Culhua
- Human Sacrifice
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Maya
- 1800 BCE fully Mayan settlements
- Ancestors seem to have moved to Yucutan in 2600 BCE
- Had writing, sophisticated numerical system
- Hydraulics
- Spread to Belize and Guatamala
- Chichen Itza
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Moche
- 300 BCE
- built empire based on military conquest in N. Andes
- wide population
- Built pyramids
- metalworking and ceramics
- Sacrifice: decapitate prisoners and keep heads
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Olmec
- 1200-500 BCE
- maybe disappeared due to violence
- name means "rubber people" b/c of a game
- stratified society
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Arawak
- 1200 CE
- sometimes called Taino
- decended from island of Saladoid
- antogonists were CARIBS
- first met Columbus
- most likely peaceful people
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Zapotec
- 850 BCE
- ruled by violence
- sophisticated astronomy
- created SUPER CITY "Teo..."
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jade
- VERY RARE AND IMPORTANT
- used in carvings
- used for trade
- OLMECS, AZTEC
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Carib
- 1400 CE
- enemy of Arawaks
- stole women
- cannibals- though only ritualistically
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Hernan Cortes
- 1518
- Died of Syphillis!
- Conquistador from Spain
- totally ass-raped the natives-Moctezuma
- defeated Aztecs by 1520
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Teotihuacán
- 200 BCE
- Super City of Zapotecs
- LARGE metrop.
- pyramids, apartments, very advanced city
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Inca
- 1470 CE
- stratified
- Emperor of Sun/Empress of Moon
- Gold and Silver tombs
- CHILDREN were scarificed
- conquered in 1532
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Toltec
- 900/980 CE
- People from Tula
- held sway for 300 yrs
- PROLIFIC legends-demi-god son of leader left but promised to return
- many people claim relationship to TOLTEC
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steel
- Cortes' advantage
- allowed quick dispatch of natives
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Tenochtitlán
- a Nahua altepetl (city-state) located on an island in Lake Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico.
- Founded in 1325, it became the seat of the growing Aztec empire in the 15th century, until captured by the Spanish in 1521.
- the ruins of Tenochtitlan are located in the central part of Mexico City.
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