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Maya/In ca/Azte c
Hierarchy/
Government
Aztecs:
King and nobles: The kind was one of the most important people in the empire. His palace contained 3,000 slaves, an aviary, and a. His giant responsibilities were too big for him to do alone, so he had tax collectors and nobles to help.
Priests and warriors: Warriors were very important for the society. They would fight in wars and would conquer new lands to gain more money, and also find sacrifices to preform ceremonies. Priests would keep the calendar for ceremonies, pass down history and stories, and preform ceremonies (and sacrifices).
Merchants and artisans: merchants and artisans usually became rich as they sold a traded their objects to other people and leaders and priests.
Farmers: most citizens were farmers, and lived a rough life. They had to live in mud and stick houses, and had to pay rough taxes that made it hard to survive. Life improved if you joined the military.
Religion(s)/
Impact on Today
Aztec –They were
Polytheistic, and believed in sacrificing to gods. Over 10,000 sacrificed a year.
Mayans – Believed gods influenced life and farming. Also
Polytheistic.
Sacrificed to please gods. Believed in a form of hell and heaven.
Inca –they thought kings were gods, and they didn’t force anyone to be in a religion
Trade/
Economy
They all traded the same thing: pots, sliver, gold, crops, food, and
CHOCOLATE..
I mean cacao beans
Achievements
Aztec
1. Had an army
2. traded everywhere
3.Tenochitchit
lan
4.Causeways
Inca
1. made irrigation techniques
2. had a tax system
3. Well organized government
4. Distribution system
5. made the city of Machu
Picchu
Maya:
1. Use of obsidian
2 . trade system
Key people
1. Montezuma II
2. Hernando
Cortez.
3. Pascal
4.Pizarro
5.Pachacuti
Summary
Mayans,
Incas and
Aztecs were very similar but with a few different beliefs and the way they governed was unique in every one of them

Mayans: Leader – Lead ceremonies, military, and was considered a god.
Higher – Priests led ceremonies, merchants traded, and warriors fought battles.
Lower – Farmers had to serve in the army, give crops to government, and worked on construction projects.
3. Cities
4. Warfare
5.
Government
China in the
Middle
Ages
King/emperor:
In charge of politics and taxes
Nobles: kept land in check that the emperor awarded them
Scholars: settled minor legal disagreements
Merchants: sold goods in china and other countries, and made the silk road
Farmers: grew rice and fertilized crops
Slaves: paid taxes for the emperor or worked. The committed suicide or were killed to go to after life with the emperor
The Chinese had many religions. In the middle ages there were a few larger ones. They had
Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism
Made the silk road for trading with countries in
Europe
Created
Grand Canal that linked north and south China together
Made Hand
Grenade, it exploded after a few seconds.
Frag Grenade, sent shards shrapnel flying
Land Mines which triggered when moved
1.Yang Jian
2.Taizong
3.Xuan zong
4.Empress Wu
5.Genhis Kahn
Mediev al Japan
Emperor- More like a pawn
Warlords- had control of the country
Warriors
Shinto and Buddhism were 2 of the main religious that
In japan, they mostly ate sea food.
They learned to write in
Chinese and
1. Lady Murasaki
Shikibu
2.Prince Shotoku
China had a very organized government and many religious that people follow, up until today even. They had a good trading system and their achievements were important for modern warfare.
This was like most empire, with the

Peasants
Fall of
Rome
Half democracy and half empire.
They had a senate, but they had a king that decided everything
Japanese believed in.
These spread from
China to japan. Both of these religious believed in afterlife.
In the Todaiji temple is the largest Buddha statue
Japanese, had art, developed science and literature
Romans were like
Greeks in the aspect that they were both polytheistic. When the romans took over Greece, they were influenced by their religion even though they were enemies. It is thought that they had the same gods and goddesses but they were a lot harsher
Mostly farming and construction, and after the black death, there was many things to reconstruct.
Created roads, aqueducts, domed buildings, and arching bridges.
Their empire lasted 200 years.
3.Confucius
4. Sei Shonagon
5.Shikibu
Diocletian:
Roman emperor, he divided the
Roman Empire into eastern and western halves.
Constantine:
Roman emperor, he was the first
Roman emperor to become a
Christian.
Constantine moved the empire’s capital from Rome to
Constantinople and removed bans on Christianity. same social structure and many beliefs that were spreading at the time.
Women didn’t have many rights either, another thing most empires had in common
During the fall of Rome, they lost half the empire to attackers, and many buildings. The empire wasn’t going to reconstruct itself at all, and they lasted a good
200 years, which is about 40 years less than United
States

Ghana/
Mali
Rise of
Islam
My topic
Islamic government is a lot stricter because they take their religion extremely seriously. Their government is based on law approvals. Their government s in contrast of republican and constitutional.
Clovis: King of the Franks, he was a Christian leader who was one of the most powerful rulers of the Germanic barbarians.
Attila: Leader of the Huns, he led invasions of
Constantinople,
Greece, Gaul, and northern Italy and was greatly feared by the Romans.
Augustus :
Augustus was the first emperor of
Rome.
Islamic religion was one of the fastest grow religious in the world, and many kids study it as it was school work
Islam hoarders supplies and money so that they never go into bankruptcy when they most need
Medicine was very useful for when you got ill or had wounds
Paper mail: there was a route in every city that took
Mohammad was born in 570 he lived with his uncle because his parents died when he was a child. He was visited by an angle when he was 40, and was told to

Mediev al
Europe
King
Royal Advisors
Land Owners
Merchants
Farmers
Peasants
Their religion was also stolen from Greece, and they were polytheistic. the money.
Their religion belief is that they need to have a lot in order to live a great life
Traded spices, silk, rugs and other luxuries
They traded all over
Europe,
North Africa and the
Middle East almost a day depending on how big the city was
Art: art was very detailed and many people enjoyed painting
Justinian’s code was old laws mad into new and better laws
Horse plows were used to farm crops
Guild were like homeless shelters in case your house burned spread the word of god. He gained many followers but was forced to leave mecca because of death threats, he was considered the prophet
Abu bakr was the second leader after
Muhammad died, because he was one of
Muhammad’s earliest followers, he conquered many lands and made Arabia.
Marco Polo: merchant that traveled to Asia and all over Europe
William tell: folk hero from the 15 th century
Thomas Becket: was murdered for believing “rights and privileges of the church”

Renaiss ance
1.King
2.Advisors
3.Land owners
4.Merchants
5.Farmers
6.Peasents/slaves
Reforma tion
Kings preachers advisors land owner merchants pheasants.
Christian and catholic
Many people started to change their religion to Protestantism
Cities and trade routes grew and the silk road was reused again down
They built enormous buildings like castle and cathedrals
Studied art literature and architecture.
Mona Lisa: a famous panting made by Leonardo da Vinci
Sistine chapel: made and designed by
Michelangelo
Had theatrical plays
New religion
Chrisianity was being left behind
Jack cade: the rebellion of Jack cade was an event which people were not happy with
King Henry VI and they kicked him out. His group was defeated on
London Bridge
1.Leonardo Da
Vinci
2.Michelangelo
3.Balkassare
Castiglione
Buonarotti
4.William
Shakespeare
5.Johann
Gutenberg
Martin Luther
John Calvin
William Tyndale
King Henry IIX
Saint Ignatius
The reformation was lead by
Martin
Luther, he created a

Scientifi c
Revoluti on
Age of
Explorat ion
New scientific discoveries and new government didn’t involve religion anymore
All religions were not part of government anymore
The government starts to control all trading and is in charge of money
As trading entered the new world, it left a major impact and slavery began to die out.
Back to the renaissance
1.Planets
2.Earth isn’t the center
3.Stars and constellations
4.Murica!
Trading was starting to happen all around the world and gold and silver was on demand in
1. animal and plant discoveries
2. maps and explored areas
3.colonies
4. resources
1. Galileo Galilei
2. Isaac Newton
3.Johanus Kepler
4.Nicolas
Copernicus
5.Rene Descartes
1.Christopher
Columbus
2. Francisco Pizarro
3.Hernando Cortes
4. Ferdinand
Magellan
5.Prince Henry the
Navigator new religion and got many people to leave christianity
Scientific revolution is the name itself, everyone started to ignore religion as part of the government.
There was new discoveries like America and stars and planets, and they realized the earth revolved around the sun
There are many explorers coming to the
Americas and claiming land for their country.

Enlighte nment
Kings
Queens
Nobles
Scientists
People
No more slaves
Religion was completely taken out of the picture the market
Nothing changed at all
5.transportati
on
1.Phylosophy
2.politics
3.change in society
4.emphasis on logical thinking
5. Natural laws influence
1.Alexander Volta
2.Voltair Dineart
3.Wollstonecraft
4.King Louis 16 th
5. King George the
3 rd
Science is slowly taking over and religion seems to become less of a role in society
Everything is now mostly up to date, and more modern than any other time period.
Science is ruling everything and there are new things being discovered