Aztec, Maya, and Inca Civilizations by Emma Reese https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf en-us 2017-11-08 13:50:20 UTC 2025-12-02 20:36:20 UTC hello@padlet.com Location - Aztec 21ereese1 https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/204809352 The Aztec Empire was located in central Mexico. The capital city of the Aztec Empire was Tenochtitlan.]]> 2017-11-08 14:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/204809352 Location - Maya 21ereese1 https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/204810096 The Mayan Empire was located in Central America in a region that is today made up of southern Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala, Belize, and northern El Salvador]]> 2017-11-08 14:11:25 UTC https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/204810096 Location - Inca 21ereese1 https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/204811373 The Inca Empire was centered in Peru and ruled over much of the west coast of South America. ]]> 2017-11-08 14:13:42 UTC https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/204811373 History - Aztec 21ereese1 https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/204812691 They formed an alliance with two other cities, Texcoco and Tlacopan This is what they called the Triple Alliance. The empire was mostly just a history of city-states.]]> 2017-11-08 14:16:00 UTC https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/204812691 Important People - Aztec 21ereese1 https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/204816129 Montezuma II was the ninth Aztec emperor of Mexico, famous for his dramatic confrontation with the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.]]> 2017-11-08 14:21:16 UTC https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/204816129 Fun Facts - Aztec 21ereese1 https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/204817234 - They were one of the first societies to mandate education for kids
-It was European disease that eventually defeated the Aztecs
-Their language N’ahuatl had a picture-like, hieroglyphic alphabet

]]> 2017-11-08 14:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/204817234 History - Maya 21ereese1 https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/205082957 Originating in the Yucatan around 2600 B.C., they rose to prominence around A.D. 250 in present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, western Honduras, El Salvador, and northern Belize.]]> 2017-11-08 22:28:58 UTC https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/205082957 Important people - Maya 21ereese1 https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/205083029 Two of the oldest and most famous Mayan leaders were Itzamn and Kukulcan. Itzamn is said to have led the first Mayan migration into the Yucatan from the Far East. Kukulcan led the second migration from the west.]]> 2017-11-08 22:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/205083029 Fun Facts - Maya 21ereese1 https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/205083858 - They had a calendar, which had different cycles
- Mayans had over 30 closely related languages and dialects.
- This impressive civilization existed for more than 2,000 years]]> 2017-11-08 22:32:50 UTC https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/205083858 History - Inca 21ereese1 https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/205084502 The Inca empire was the largest empire in pre-Colombian America. The Inca had skills in music, textiles, wood and stone carving, art and poetry.The Incas called their empire Tawantinsuyu, the “Land of the Four Corners,” and its official language was Quechua.]]> 2017-11-08 22:36:15 UTC https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/205084502 Important People - Inca 21ereese1 https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/205087245 The man who established the Inca Empire was Manco Capac in 1438.  there were thirteen emperors during the time when the Inca Empire existed. They were sometimes called, “The Inca”. The major Incan god was the god of nature, Viracocha, the creator.]]> 2017-11-08 22:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/205087245 Fun Facts - Inca 21ereese1 https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/205087436 -The Ancient Inca’s performed surgery on human skulls.
-In 1532 the Spanish arrived in Peru and by 1535 the Inca Empire was gone.
-The Inca had a great understanding of mathematics and agriculture.]]> 2017-11-08 22:52:15 UTC https://padlet.com/21ereese1/gd8oi7lpu8rf/wish/205087436