2º ESO

1. What was America
like before 1492?

4. Difficulties
Could not read or write Knowledge of
immediate
surroundings

5. Famous Merchant

7. Jewels Silk
Spices

8. Prisoner of war
Genoa – 1298 Rusticiello

11. THE AZTECS
Mexico - 1300

13. LAKE TEXCOCO

15. THE SUN GOD

21. WARS
 Fought all of the time
 The defeated tribes had to give
 Food
 Treasure
 Prisoners to be sacrificed

23. Corn
Chilli peppers
Beans

24.  Potters
 Weavers
 Carpenter
s

25. 1519
Hernando
Cortés

27. QUETZALCOATL – THE SERPENT GOD

28. DISEASE

29. THE INCAS
 In 1438 they defeated the Chime group

30. THE INCAN EMPIRE
 Well organized
 Everyone had work
 Cities from stone

31. TYPES OF STRUCTURES
 Temples
 Observatories
 Palaces
 Ordinary homes

33. EMPEROR VISITED PEOPLE

34. CONQUISTADORS 1532

35.  Captured and killed the Inca emperor
 The empire collapsed within a few years

40.  KINGS
 PRIESTS
 WARRIORS

41. GODS
 Gods  Kings were gods too

42. 850
 Moved north to Yucatán
 The Toltec settled in the Mayan city
of Chichén Itzá

43. 1500
 The Mayan kingdoms had
shrunk to just a few small towns.