Aztecs

Aztec gods like bread and wine

These Native Americans were located in South America, not North America

He tricked the Aztec into giving him gold so Cortes put Moctuzuma in prison!

Cortez conquered the Aztecs by deceit and subterfuge. He kidnapped their king and demanded that they surrender. When they did, he had him killed anyway.

Cortes gained their trust, then betrayed them and captured their leader. They fell apart after that

Hernando Cortez

all built terrances

It increased Aztec wealth by allowing merchants to freely travel across the empire.

They were both indigenous peoples of Mexico and were wiped out by Spanish Conquistadors.

what is one readon documnent b would not be a reliable source to understand what happened when moctezuma met cortes

i would not know the answer

They didn't play basketball, they played what today is called the Mesoamerican ball game which is similar. Mayans called it Pok-o-Tok and Aztecs would call it Tlachtli, but the game was exactly the same. There would be two groups of men, each team would have three turns to touch the ball and try to score a "basket" before passing it to the other team. It was only played with their shoulders, hips and thighs.

They would play on a square court with 2 vertical walls where they would have the rings (what today is the basket). The loosing team would be sacrificed (the blood would be given to the gods).

more info: http://www.ballgame.org/

The Nahuatl word for love is Tlazotlalistli.

How did Inca society differ from the Aztec and Maya societies in Mesoamerica?

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I can tell you what it was like in the concentration camps... lice everywhere. there was very little food and water and you could not showere. the disgusting smell was everywhere and you could not escape death. you had to work hard every day and there were big roll-calls which lasted for hours. any objections and you would be killed. it was much, much worse and i cannot find the right words to explain but that should give you a brief outline of what it was like.

It seemed very sad to have no parents and expect you treacherous death soon after.

The conditions for the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps were horrible. The Germans treated the imprisoned people as if they were animals, instead of living, breathing humans. The lives of the prisoners were never-ending nightmares. The nightmare began the moment they first stepped onto the train.

Cattle cars, freight cars, and passenger trains were used to transport people to the Nazi concentration camps. People were herded into the cars by German soldiers. Only thirty or forty people could comfortably fit into the cars, but the soldiers kept packing the cars until it was filled to at least twice its capacity. There was only standing room inside, and there were no restrooms in the cars. People were forced to urinate and defecate on themselves during the long trip to the concentration camp. Often, the train ride would last several days and nights, and there was little food or water available to the passengers. When the train would stop occasionally, a soldier would pass a bucket of water inside the train, but the people nearest the door would drink it all. There was no fresh air circulating inside the terribly hot car, and the stench in the air was unbearable. Many people died during the trip because of the heat and lack of food and water.

Upon arrival at the camps, things got even worse. At many of the camps, Auschwitz specifically, the people were divided into groups as they exited the train. The strong and able people were sent to one line and the weak people, including children and the elderly, and many women, were sent to the other line. Large boxes were set out, and people were instructed to give up their valuables. Those who did not willingly give up their belongings were beaten badly. Then, the weak people were sent off to a building, where they were told they would be receiving a shower. The people were stripped down naked and herded into the "showers." They crowded underneath the spouts and were showered with either carbon monoxide or Zyklon B, which is a form of crystalline prussic acid, which was also used as an insecticide in some concentration camps. The bodies were then burned up in the crematorium.

The stronger people were stripped of their clothing and taken to real showers. After the shower, which was usually ice-cold, a guard came by and doused the prisoners' heads with a chemical to kill the lice. Lice were rampant in the camps. Another guard put the chemical on the prisoners' underarms, and another guard shaved their heads. The hair was used for ship rope and mattresses.

When that was finished, the prisoners were given a set of clothing, which consisted of one pair of shoes, a pair of underwear, a shirt, a pair of pants, and a jacket. The prisoners traded sizes with each other so that they could have a set that fit as well as possible. Then they were lined up to be tattooed. Their camp identification numbers were tattooed on their forearms. Their loss of identity was then complete. Each person would be identified only by his or her number from that point on.

The prisoners were then assigned to barracks. The bunks that they slept in had three tiers, and the mattresses were burlap filled with straw. The straw was often rotten and fermented, and the barracks were crawling with lice, fleas, and other creatures.

For the prisoners, the day began between 4:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m., when they had to report outside for roll call. Outside, they were counted. If the officer in charge lost count, then he started over. Often, the prisoners had to stand outside for hours at a time.

Then it was time for breakfast, which consisted of a slice of bread and a cup of coffee made of ground-up acorns and water. The midday meal was soup made of potato peels and beets, and dinner was another slice of bread. People in the camps were dying of starvation. There was never enough food. Some ate grass and roots to try to stay alive.

Many prisoners were forced to do labor. They had to lay sod, dig drainage ditches, work in factories, unload gravel and coal from trains, and do other hard labor. Those who could not complete their tasks were brutally beaten. During the harsh winter, labor was especially difficult. The prisoners would be forced to work in below-freezing weather; many froze to death. No one tried to escape because the camps were surrounded by electrically charged barbed wire.

Some prisoners were not even aware that they were at an extermination camp. The Germans took great care to paint the Red Cross symbol on their vehicles so that the prisoners and airplanes overhead would not know that they were transporting poisonous gas to kill prisoners.

The guards were very cruel to the prisoners. Beatings were frequent, and the guards would often amuse themselves by threatening the prisoners. They would say that at the end of the day, all of the prisoners would be gassed because no more workers were needed.

Every few months, there would be a "selection." That was where officials came into the barracks and picked out the prisoners who looked too weak to be of any use. The next morning, the trucks would come and take those prisoners directly to the crematorium.

Millions of people died in the concentration camps because of starvation, overcrowding, disease, exposure to cold, and the brutality of the Germans. People died by the thousands in the gas chambers and mass execution by a firing squad. Dead bodies were stacked like firewood, and every twenty-four hours a truck would come by to pick them up. The bodies were buried in enormous mass graves or burned in the crematorium.

There were different Apache tribes and all were essentially nomadic, following the buffalo herds and other game, anticipating the seasonal changes, etc. Mostly they were based in Texas, which was also, at one time, a separate country. Remember the Alamo?

The Aztecs were for they had more advanced war strategies and technologies.

Winfield Scott landed 12,000 troops, mainly soldiers, and captured Vera Cruz in March of 1847. Then with about 9,000 soldiers, Scott moved inland. The soldiers routed an entrenched, numerically superior Mexican force at the Battle of Cerro Gordo.

Scott proceded to Puebla. There, he had to release a number of volunteer troops whose enlistments had run out. He was reinforced back to a QQstrength of between 12,000 and 13,000 troops. The reinforcements included a battalion of Marines which numbered less than 400 officers and men. The Marines were assigned to General Quitman's Division.

In the battles of Contreras, Churusbuco, and El Molino del Rey, soldiers defeated numerically superior forces of Mexicans. During those battles, Quitman's Division guarded supply wagons.

Quitman's Division, including the Marines, was one of the forces which assaulted Chapultepec Castle. Quitman's attack was initially stopped short of the walls of Chapultepec. The Marine Battalion remained outside Chapultepec Castle during the assault.

The troops who actually scaled the walls, fought it out with the garrison and actually took Chapultepec were Soldiers, not Marines.

"Halls of Montezuma" is included in the Marines' Hymn because a battalion of Marines was part of Winfield Scott's army which captured Mexico City. Actually the Marine Battalion, contrary to the belief of many Marines, did not play a significant role in the capture of Mexico City.

Mayan

Central America was home to both the Aztecs and Mayans. They both also lived in South Mexico. They left several building behinds that can still be visited today.

The Maya civilization fell much sooner than Aztec civilization.

it ends on December 21 2012 and it ends there because Spain conquered them before they had time to continue not because the world is going to end at the time it ends.

According to the legend, at the beginning of history, when the Aztecs arrived in the Valley of Anahuac, before the mountains had reached their permanent form, a beautiful princess named Mixtli was born, in the city of Tenochtitlan. She was the daughter of Tizoc, the Tlatoani Emperor of the Mexicas. Mixtli was sought after by numerous noblemen, among them Axooxco, a cruel and bloodthirsty man, who demanded the hand of Mixtli in marriage. However, Mixtli's heart belonged instead to a humble peasant named Popoca. Popoca went into battle, to conquer the title of Caballero Aguila. If he claimed this title of nobility, Popoca would be able to fight Axooxco for the hand of Mixtli.

Mixtli knew the danger Popoca was in, and then, wrongly, heard that he was killed. But in fact, Popoca was returning victorious. Not realizing this, Mixtli killed herself, rather than live without Popoca. When Popoca returned to find Mixtli dead, he picked her up and carried her body into the mountains. Hoping that the cold snow would wake her from sleep, reuniting them alive, Popoca stayed at her feet, bent over, watching for her to come awake.

They have remained there ever since, and the body of Mixtli has become the volcano Ixtaccihuatl (the Sleeping Woman), the ever-watchful Popoca has become the volcano Popocatépetl (the Smoking Mountain), and Axooxco has become the Cerro Ajusco (the highpoint of the Distrito Federal). Ever since, these volcanoes have towered above the city of Mexico. The romantic legend of this couple has been passed on, ever since the Pre-Columbian era, and so now the people of Mexico know the origin of these magnificent volcanoes.

A. roads that connected important temples to each other.

B. the barracks that housed soldiers and military leaders.

C. the entrance to residences carved into rock walls.

D. temples where human sacrifices were performed.