Mesoamerica

• Countries
• Mexico (Yucatan), Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador (NW)
• Civilizations
• Mayas, Olmecs, Toltecs, Chichemec, Mexica/Aztec, Spanish, Mexican
• Maya
• Countries
• Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, and parts of Mexico and El Salvador
• Time
• Calendar is very intricate and mucho importante
• 1^st Calendar
• Ritual Year
• 260 days
• 2^nd Calendar
• Solar Year
• 365 days
• Peaceful Religion
• Some recent discoveries
• Blood letting, self mutilation, human sacrifices (?)
• Farming
• Slash and burn
• Nomads
• Language
• Olmec
• Countries
• Teotihuacán
• Farming
• Language
• Mayan influence
• Calendar, Religion
• Toltec
• Countries
• Farming
• Language
• Mayan / Olmec influences
• Calendar
• Religion
• Zapoteca
• Countries
• Farming
• Language
• Mayan / Olmec influences
• Chichemec
• Countries
• Farming
• Religion
• Language
• Warriors
• Mayan / Olmec / Toltec / Zapoteca influences
• Mexica / Aztec
• Came in among the Chichemec
• Countries
• Farming
• Language
• Mayan / Olmec / Toltec / Zapoteca influences
• Calendar
• Aztlan
• Lake Texcoco
• Tenochtitlán
• Calendar
• Destroyed 4 times
• Jaguars, Tempests, Rain of Fire, Flood
• Living in 5^th
• Earthquakes
• Revered Speakers
• …Motecuzoma,…Motecuzoma II, Cuatemoc
• Motecuzoma
• Montezuma II (Motecuzoma / Moctezuma)
• Omens
• 52 years (5 shadow days), Quetzalcoatl, comet, temples on fire, lake bubbling
• Friend or Foe?
• Invited Cortes
• Cuatemoc
• Puppet Leader
• Hernando (Hernán) Cortés
• Out of Cuba
• Lands near Yucatán
• Marches toward Tenochtitlán
• Mexica Revolt
• Spanish escape with their lives
• Montezuma II dies
• Mexica or Spanish
• Mexica get control
• Spanish fight back
• Succeed mainly because of Small Pox
• Cuatemoc
• Puppet Leader
• Murdered
• Spanish
• Mexican