Sacrificial Pyramids o f the Aztecs, Incans, and the Mayans

1. Sacrificial Pyramids of the Aztecs, Incans, and the Mayans By Talon and MacKenzie.

2. The Sacrificial Pyramids The Pyramids of the three ancient civilizations was used to please the gods. There was many different explanations of the Sacrificial Pyramids other that to please the gods like the religious reason, there is also the scientific reason which we will show in a minute.

3. Religious reason. They used to tie down the slave and use chants or sayings to please the gods along with the gross part but spilling their blood was another way to please the gods. Sacrifice was common theme in the Mesoamerican cultures. They would sacrifice because of the story of The Legend Of The 5 Suns where the gods sacrificed themselves so that mankind could live. “Life is because of the gods; with their sacrifice they gave us life.... They produce our sustenance... which nourishes life” Picture shown on the next slide.

5. Religious Picture The picture you just saw was the priest and the guards taking the heart out and spilling the blood onto the ground to please the gods

6. Scientific Reason Dietary theories link the practice of human sacrifice to the subsequent cannibalization of the victims and the use of their flesh as a source of protein. Ewww Gross. Picture shown on the next slide.

8. Scientific Picture The Picture you just saw was the body torn apart and eaten by the guards and ruler, as scientists say was for protein.

9. Aztec Culture The Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the late post-classic period in Mesoamerican chronology.

11. Incan Culture The Inca Empire, or InkaEmpire (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political and military center of the empire was located in Cusco in modern-day Peru. The Inca civilization arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th century. From 1438 to 1533, the Incas used a variety of methods, from conquest to peaceful assimilation, to incorporate a large portion of western South America, centered on the Andean mountain ranges, including large parts of modern Ecuador, Peru, western and south central Bolivia, northwest Argentina, north and north-central Chile, and southern Colombia into a state comparable to the historical empires of Eurasia

13. Mayan Culture The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Initially established during the Pre-Classic period (c. 2000 BCE to 250 CE), according to the Mesoamerican chronology, many Maya cities reached their highest state of development during the Classic period (c. 250 to 900 CE), and continued throughout the Post-Classic period until the arrival of the Spanish

15. Slaves in Depth This slavery was very different from what Europeans of the same period were to establish in their colonies, although it had much in common with the slaves of classical antiquity. First, slavery was personal, not hereditary: a slave's children were free. A slave could have possessions and even own other slaves. Slaves could buy their liberty, and slaves could be set free if they were able to show they had been mistreated or if they had children with or were married to their masters.

16. Resources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Aztec_culture http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en

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