Mexica, Aztecs, Inca

How is Cortez able to defeat the Aztecs?

Spanish are able to take over b/c they exploited underlying groups that were being governed by aztac empires

Cortez is only able to defeat Aztecs by going to surrounding areas…lend me your men and I will free you…

Q’eswachaka rope bridge

southern Peru

the last hand-woven Incan rope suspension bridge still in existence

It is rebuilt every year by the Quechua Indigenous group

-Traverse mountainous areas

-Rope…from grass…tied in specific knot style… has to be dried out…

-SA is very mountainous

-Bridges used to maintain order

-As well as road

Shows how incans adapt

who were the Teotihuacan apart of?

-Teo part of Mayans

-Mayan influence on architect

-Mayan culture spreads

-Statue of chatmul

-Offering plate…statue of offering…religiously…belief in offering to gods

-Feathers, food, human sacrifices

where were the Toltecs centered?

Tula, originally a small town and ceremonial center c. 600

Tula

•Forcibly conquered town and created a state with about 120,000 people

origin of Tolpiltzin myth

• Tula, Toltecs

• priest-king prophesied to return

Aztec + Incan founding myth

•feather serpent priest king…brings golden age of culture and civ…taught people how to write and measure…grow maize…founding priestly divine king…Spanish will exploit…figures prophesized to return

First city-state to feature sacrifice of captured warriors

Tula

describe the late toltec era

large city, populous