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Period: 250 to 900
Mayan Empire Golden Age
During their golden age era their population could've been from 2-10 million. They used math, made plazas, created games, pottery, wrote, etc. They were religious and had kinds who said they were related to gods. Some of their traditions involved human sacrifice and ball games. -
Period: 1325 to 1521
Aztec Empire
The Aztec Empire was a very strong and well civilized empire. Their downfall started when they got diseases. They spoke Nahuatl. They lived in what is now Mexico. -
Period: 1438 to 1525
Inca Empire
The Incans were very smart, they did brain surgeries, made rope bridges, and even had a good government system. They had priests who did many things so that would make them high level. They believed that there was a creator god named Viracocha and other smaller gods. They spoke Quechua and didn't have a writing system. They lived in what is now called Peru. -
1519
Cortés Conquers mexico
Cortés and his men walked around Mexico looking for gold and soon found themselves in Tenochtitlan. In 1520 Motecuzoma II died and that allowed the Spanish to conquer them Mexico. He had the help of canons, swords, muskets etc. but it wasn't the weapons that helped him bring down the Empire, it was dieases. -
1565
Spanish invades Florida
The Spanish invaded in Florida -
British invade North Carolina
Colonists arrived in July and George Howe got killed by the members of the Secotan tribe. This resulted in the Spanish attempting to attack their village. When winter approached white's group had to go back to England because they didn't have enough food. -
Summary + Works Cited
Native Americans lives would be very different from today if the Indian War wouldn't of started. Since the English came they spread diseases killing a lot more Native Americans than they expected with weapons. With the very little amount of tribes left there wasn't much trading and they started losing things they needed. That forced tribes to move into the new lands of the English. Works Cited
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ItxazumFB3mc9qy5rXS11yDeVf7Tv8FcvGEP8tzcC5I/edit?usp=sharing\