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The Mayan were creating an advanced civilization in the Americas and reached there peck between 300 to 900 C.E. During this time Mayan culture was spreading through Mesoamerica, including parts Mexico, Belize, most of Guatemala, and of the Honduras and El Salvador.

The land the Mayan lived on was varied greatly. The Mayans built their civilization on an idea of people called the Olmec, they lived east of Mexico. Mayan civilization began to arise in eastern and southern Mexico around 200 B.C.E. Historians divide the history of the Mayan into 3 periods, Pre-Classic, Classic, and post-Classic.

The Pre-Classic period lasted about 2000 B.C.E to 300 C.E. During this period the Mayan farmed the and lived in houses and compounds, or groups of building. Then Mayan culture became more complex. The Mayan population grow so settlement became larger. the Mayan began constructing public building for government and religious purposes. About 50 B.C.E  began a writing system of the Olmec and made there own system of hieroglyphic writing.

Mayan civilization reached its peak during the classic period, form around 300 to 900 C.E. During this time the Maya adapted and made ideas they had learned from what they have learned from the Olmec ,like they improved on Olmec building techniques. Even though the Mayan lacked metal tools and had not discovered the Wheel, but still built hug stone cities and a really decorated temple-pyramid and palaces. Mayan also built observatories for studying the heavens. They charted the movement of they moon, stars, and planets. They used there knowledge of astronomy and mathematics to create complex and highly accurate calendars. Mayan society during the classic period consisted of many independent states. Each states had farming communities and one or more cities. So at its height, the Mayan Empire included over 40 cities.Around 900 C.E, the Classic civilization collapsed. The Mayan abandoned their cities in the south lowland, so the great cities fell into ruin in the jungle. No one knows for sere why this happened.

During that time the north, Mayan cities continued to prosper during the Post- classic period . This period lasted from about 900 C.E to 1500 C.E. During this time, the Mayan continued their warfare and empire building, but they had less great artistic and cultural achievements. Even at the height of their empire, the Mayan were not one unified nation. Instead they lived in many city-states with separate government.

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This is a picture before the Mayan did a ritaul

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1. By Jaime Allen      3/37/19             Class color:Ruby   

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1. By Jaime Allen      3/37/19             Class color:Ruby   

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the objective of this assignment is to educating kids about the 3 main groups of people living in Central and South America.

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This is a picture made to look like the Tenochtitlan city when people were still living there

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When the Aztec power grew, their capital city of Tenochtitlan grow into one of the largest cities in the world. With about 200,000  and 300,000 people living there. So the land of Tenochtitlan was larger then London, Paris, or Venice. The Aztecs did this by using land from the lake by sinking timber into the water to serve as walls and filling in the area between the timber with mud, boulders, and reeds.

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This is the area of that the Mayan people lived the green is Mayan territiry.

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This is how a city in the Inca Empire looks like now

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This is a picture of a city the Aztec lived in.

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This is a map of the Aztec Empire all the green is were the Aztec owns.

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At Inca height of their power was in the early 1500s. The Inca ruled over a vast, well organized empire. From north to south the Incas empire distance is 2,500 miles. It reached from the pacific coast in the west to the Amazon River Basin in the east. Maybe 10 million people lived under Incas rule. Two peoples had a strong effect on the Inca the Moche and the Chimu.

The center of the Inca Empire was the capital city of Cuzco. The Inca came there around 1200s. According to one Inca legend the people descended from Inti, the sun god.

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The orange is were the Inca live

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After the Aztec's and their allies defeated the Tepanecs in 1428 C.E. The City became the capital of a growing empire. In the mid 1400's Aztecs extended there empire to faraway places. By the beginning of the 1500's, the Aztecs Empire when to the Gulf of mexico to as far south of the current border for Guatemala.

At there height they had included more then 5 million people. The Aztecs did not make colonies. Or didn't force people to there ways. Instead, they were a loose place of hundreds of city-states that were forced to pay valuable items to the Aztecs.Some pay in food, cacao, gems and stones, cotton, cloth, animals, animal skin, shells, building materials, or even soldiers.

The demands of the empire made war the center of every day life for Aztecs. Also the Aztecs believed that there main god Huitzilopochtli needs human blood to live. So in war they took as many prisoners as possible to use as a sacrifices. The Aztecs used bows and arrow, spears, clubs, and wooden swords with sharp stone blades for battle. Aztecs were great at hand-to-hand fighting.