sts

Maya Civilization

• cities ruled by chief(king)

Maya Civilization

• two complicated calendar (farming and events or celebrations)

Maya civilization

• mayans form of written language (hieroglyphs)

Maya Civilization

• number system and math

Mayan Civilization

• astronomy

• Accurate calendar

Maya Civilization

• Religion

• mayans are polytheistic

• gods are based on sun, rain, maize, etc.

Maya civilization

• mayan gods

• Over 150 different gods

Maya civilization

• farmers only farm 50 days out of the year.

• They spend the rest with community projects (building things in honor of the chief)

Maya civilization

• mayan custom

• Religious ones required human sacrifice.

Maya civilization

• recreaation

• Mayans love to sing, dance, and play sports.

Maya civilization

• popular game Pok-a-Tok.

Maya civilization

• beauty

• mayans preferred flat long heads

Maya civilization

• flat long heads

Mayas civilization

• beauty

• Large prominent nose was a sign of nobility.

Inca civilization

Inca civilization

• roads paved with stones.

Inca civilization

• uniting the empire

• Massive road network

Inca civilization

• stone buildings that surmounted earthquakes and other disasters.

Inca civilization

• architecture

• Great masonry skill

Inca civilization

• Machu Picchu

Inca civilization

• Irrigation systems and technique for storing water

  for their crops to grow in all types of land

Inca civilization

• Calendar with 12 months to mark their religious

  festivals and prepare them for planting season

Inca civilization

• First suspension bridge

• The last Incan bridge

Inca civilization

• Quipo

Inca civilization

• Inca textile since cloth was one of the specially

  prized artistic achievements

Inca civilization

• pottery and weaving

• Symmetrical pottery

• Jars with faces

Inca civilization

• agriculture

Inca civilization

• terraces in machu picchu

Inca civilization

• ideology

• Incas understanding of the universe

Aztec civilization

• aztecs

Aztec civilization

• mandatory education

Aztec civilization

• homes

Aztec civilization

• aztec society

Aztec civilization

• family

Aztec civilization

• chocolates as currency

Aztec civilization

• Antispasmodic medication

• Passion flower

Aztec civilization

• Chinampa

• Farming technology

Aztec civilization

• farming

Aztec civilization

Aztec civilization

• Invention of the canoe

Aztec civilization

• Tlachtli a ballgame

Aztec civilization

• Religion

• Believed in many gods

• The sun was very important

Aztec civilization

• Religion

• Believed that one day the sun would erupt

Aztec civilization

• Aztec written laguage

• Pictographs

Africa

• kola nuts and coffee in ethiopia

Africa

• coffee

India

• Medicine

• Famous Ayurveda

India

• Aryabhata

• Brahmagupta

China

• acupunctures

China

• compass, paper, gunpowder and printing tools

China

• iron plow, wheelbarrow and propeller, seismological detector and dry dock facility.

Middle East Countries

• muslims

• Ibn al-Haytham - father of Optics

• Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

  (mathematician)

• Ibn Sina or Avicenna

Africa

• Pyramid

• Abu Simbel

Africa

• Medicine

Africa

• Drainage