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​​​​Welcome to The Great Three!!:P* =Mayan,Incan,and Aztec!!!!! ​​​This wiki site is going to be about the great kingdoms of the Mayan, Incan, and Aztec!​ = ​ Aztec Culture: *DAILY LIFE:Aztec daily life was very simple, in fact it was very similar to today life.
 * RELIGION:Some sacrifices were very small, involving the sacrifice of a slave to a minor god, but some were much more important which involved hundreds or thousands of prisoners.
 * HOUSING:In a usaul Aztec home there was a sleeping area, a shrine{a place where they kept there god statues}, a kitchen, and a dining room.
 * FOODS:The Aztecs ate maize{a type of corn}, tomateos, atole{a type of porrige}, avocados, tortillas{made from maize}, and tamales.
 * CLOTHING:The Aztec clothing as mostly made of beautiful fabrics, though the fullest of the qualityof the cloth was mostly based mostly on the wealth of the person wearing the clothes. media type="custom" key="5370599" align="right"

Aztec Location:  *The Aztec's capital, tenochtitlan was located in the Yucatan Peninsula in today Mexico.

Important Facts For The Aztec Civilization:
 * AD 1100 Aztecs leave their homeland in the desert land to the north Mexico and travel southward in search of a new place to live.
 * AD 1200 Aztecs arrive in central Mexico. They find Tepanecs, Culhuas and Acolhuacans living here. At first, the Aztecs work as slaves and soldiers for the people here, but they grow stronger and fight against their masters.
 * AD 1325 Aztecs found the city of Tenochtitlan on an island in the centre of Lake Texcoco, central Mexico.
 * AD 1428 Aztecs defeat the Tepanecs and begin to conquer neighboring lands and collect tribute from them.
 * AD1525 Spain takes control of Aztec lands. [[image:aztec_sacrifice.jpg width="169" height="221"]]Successes of the Aztec Civilization:media type="custom" key="5389345" align="right" width="100" height="100"
 * AD 1473 The Aztecs conquer the rich market-city of Tlatelolco in central Mexico.
 * At least 100,000 people lived in the city, compared with only 40,000 who lived in London at that time.

Failures of the Aztec Civilization:
 * AD 1600 War and European diseases wipe out 10 million Aztecs.
 * The spanish take control over the Aztec lands in AD 1525.

Important Facts about the Aztec Civilization: Incan Culture:
 * The Aztecs believed that world was flat.
 * The capital Teotihuacan, "Place of the Gods", contained enormous pyramids.
 * The Aztecs had dozens of laws covering almost every aspect of life, including criminal behavior, divorce and ownership of land.
 * The Aztecs hadno system of imprisonment. In case of minor crimes,the lawbraker was required to repay the injured party in goods or work. Major crimes (murder, stealing from the market, highway robbery, and being drunk in public) could be punished by death.
 * During one four-day ceremony at least 20,000 people were sacrificed. media type="custom" key="5388891"
 * DAILY LIFE:Most Incan parents did not coddle or spoil thier children because they wanted to thier children to grow up strong.
 * RELIGION:The Incan religion was very complicated, it had francy ceremonies were linked to matters of planting or harvesting or medicine.
 * HOUSING:The Incans built thier houses, temples, bridges and palaces from large ground blocks of stone, fitted so well that no cement was required to keep them in place.
 * FOODS:Potatoes and corn(maize) were the Incans' most important crops because they could be preserved easily.
 * CLOTHING: Women wore ankle length skirts, garments, and grass shoes, they were incharge for making everyone in thier family including them.

Location of the Incan Civilization: media type="custom" key="5388507" Important Dates for the Incan Civilization:
 * The Incan lived in the highland center of Cuzco.
 * AD 1150-1250 Incan tribe settles near Cuzco.
 * AD 1300 Under Manco Capac, Incan begin to conquer neighbors.
 * AD 1438 Pachacuti, ninth Sapa Inca, expands empire.
 * AD 1536 Incan warriors attack Spaniards inside Cuzco.

Successes of the Incan Civilization:
 * Without todays tools, the Incan were able to create gigantic structures, such as the buildings at Machu Picchu(Incan capital).
 * The Incan was highly organized. Every group of ten warriors had their own leader.

Failures of the Incan Civilization:
 * The Incan Empire fell almost five centuries ago.
 * The arrival of Francisc Pizarro was the beginning of the end for the Incan Empire.

Important Facts about the Incan Civilization: Mayan Culture: FOODS:One of the most popular food was called lime soup, made of chiken, limes and different kinds of spices.
 * The vallys of the Andes have three farming zones(Yunga, Quechua, and Higher Elevations).
 * Members of the Incan royalty were buried in special chambers called chullpas.
 * When someone died, the body of the deceased was moved to its grave in a funeral procession.
 * The Incan believed that someone a sacrifice was required to cure an illness.
 * Incan healers found cures to disease in the natural world around them. media type="custom" key="5388875"
 * DAILY LIFE:Couples usually marry in thier late teens and early twenties. *RELIGION:The traditional religions of the Mayan were based on a system of beliefs that included the world, the heavens, and the unseen world called Xibalba.
 * HOUSING:A Mayan house provided a cool shelter from the very hot sun, as well as keeping the rain out.
 * CLOTHING:The designs on Mayan clothes, which included humans, animals and plants, often had religous meaning and every Mayan group and village has its own special pattern of decoration.

media type="custom" key="5388569"Location of the Mayan Civilization:
 * The Mayan live in southeast Mexico and Central America, including Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador.

Important Dates of the Mayan Civilization:
 * 5000 BC The Mayan settle along the Pacific and Carribean coasts of Mesoamerica.
 * 900 BC Mayan farmers design and use irrigation systems.
 * 300 BC the Mayan population starts to grow rapidly, citties are built.
 * AD 550 This is the time of the Mayan's greatest artistic achievements.
 * AD 1600 between 75% and 90% of Mayanpeople are dead, but Mayan skills, beliefs and traditions survive.

Successes of the Mayan Civilization:
 * AD 1220 A new Mayan city is founded at Mayapan.
 * media type="custom" key="5389257" align="left"There was no other culture in Mesoamerica that developed the art of writing to the level of the Mayan.

Failures of the Mayan Civilization:
 * AD 800 The Mayan palace-city of Palenque begins to decline.
 * AD 1527 Mayan lands are invaded by the Spanish.

Important facts about the Mayan civilization:
 * Most Mayan statues were designed as symbols of power, rather than life-like portraits.
 * Lord Palenque ruled the Mayan city-states of Palenque from AD 615 to 684.
 * Mayan rulers set up carved stone pillers in their cities to record major events during their reigns.
 * Mayan decorated cermonial pottery with pictures of gods, kings and important people.
 * The Mayan city of Copan in present-day Honduras covered a big area, perhaps 13 km long and 3km wide.