Mesoamerica+Notes+(11-19-13)

= **MESOAMERICA- NOTES 11/19/13** =
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[] ** Toltecs ** [] Aztecs [][] Huitzlopochtli [][] Quetzacoatl [][] Class based society [][][] Calpulli [][] Chinampas [] Maya [][] 0 [][] Ball games [][] Calendar [][] Writing [] Inca [][] Pachacoti [][] Atahualpa [][] Inca socialism [][][] Buncha commies [][] ** Complex empire ** [][][] Sea-level-Sky [][][] Roads Portuguese [] Prince Henry [] Astrolabe [] ** Yongle **
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The Aztecs, Mayans , both are religiously similar, polytheistic, blood sacrifice, the Maya engage in a different version, blood is sacred. Sound familiar? The Mongols. Aztecs, Maya and the Mongols. Maya belief that blood must be spilled, necessary for life, fertility etc. The Aztecs were different, no problem with spilling blood, so long as it wasn't theirs. Spaniards were amazed at the amount of bountiful land and food the Aztecs had, but sometimes they would see runes filled with blood, I mean FILLED with blood, and were like "Why so much blood?" From the journal of one of the Spaniards,we discover that they discovered that the Aztec were human sacrificers. At one point they sacrificed 60,000 people in three days, 20,000 a day, about 1,000 an hour, and about 3 a minute. How'd they do it so fast? They would lay the people on their back, make an incision below the sternum, and reach in the chest cavity and rip out the still beating heart. It's real easy to pull out a heart apparently. That amount of blood thirst isn't human! So where are they getting these people from? People they conquer. The Aztec would go to things they called Flower Wars, basically an excuse to go round up captives. What were they thinking? Do y'all know what empathy is? Reading history with empathy is completely different. How did the captives feel? helpless? angry? I would be killing mad, Aztec killing. Ever ask yourself how Cortez with 3,000 men defeated tens of thousands Aztec ? The captive tribes. Horses are carrying Cortez in his shiny plate armor and all the natives think is "IT IS QUETZOCOATL !", and now Cortez has a ready source of men to fight the Aztec. Sound familiar? Hunger Games, except bigger scale. How do you think the captives felt? Aztecs gone WOO!!!1!! How do you think the locals felt? That's why Cortez wins. First thing Cortez does is burn his boats to keep his men in line. He is going to march into Tenochtitlan and pick their pockets of gold. Cortez resorts to biological warfare, smallpox. 90% of Indian population wiped out by smallpox. Easier for Europeans to take over. Maya came up with 0 independently. Huitzlopochtli is just an Aztec God. The Aztec have a stratified class based society, Calpulli are nobles, warrior class. Chinampas are floating farms, hydroponics, grow food in water not soil. Maya have 0, Maya game in a below ground level field, throw ball in rings around the edge, losers sacrificed, Maya have calendar , it's REALLY accurate, had writing. First Inca is Pachacoti, founds empire, equivalent of the sun god, Pachacoti 's grandsons are engaged in a civil war, Pizarro comes over and plays them off each other, forces Atahualpa to fill a room with gold, then strangles him to death. Inca socialism, took care of widows and orphans, when money was pillaged, it went to those less fortunate. Inca go from sea level to the sky, build really good roads to accomplish that(with lasers) Inca empire stretched from modern-day Ecuador to Chile. Inca had superior military than surrounding tribes(but were naked). All a Buncha commies. What's chapter 15 about? Power vacuum after the Mongols and Global trade. Polynesian history: Canoes, Surfing, Volcanoes, poy. Chapter 15 is about Global trade. //Pax mongolica// makes trade flourish between Europe to China. When the Mongols are gone who fills the void? The Muslim Turks! Problem, Christians don't like the Muslim Turks. Goods from China become so expensive that only rich merchants and the wealthy can afford such luxuries. What do the Crusades introduce to the world? Platonic thought. The Lateen sail allows you to sail into the wind. Arab math, Algebra, allows you to plot coordinates. Sailors really like this. Astrolabe figures out Latitude, longitude is guesstimated. Portuguese benefit. Prince Henry the Navigator, set up a sailors school in 1415. He is enabling Portugal to become a global power. Portuguese discover sugar, the most deadly poison known to man, Ming dynasty in China. //**[Bell]**// REMEMBER 1415!!