Y8 Latin America - The Rise of Civilisations
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Jacob Thornes
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Y8 Latin America -
The Rise of Civilisations
Whilst we wait for others to join grab yourself a pen and paper if your have them ready to take notes during the lesson.
Question: What do you think the word civilisation means?
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The Rise of Civilisations
Learning outcomes:
- To describe a Latin American Civilisation
- To understand how the discovery of agriculture changed the lives of early peoples
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What civilisations existed in Latin America?
Many civilisations have existed over thousands of years.
As some failed, others took over their territory.
Famous civilisations are the Maya, Aztecs and Inca.
They occupied the jungles of Mexico, Central America and the Amazon, as well as the Andes mountains and Atacama desert!
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The Inca 1100-1533
The Inca civilisation occupied the northern part of the Andes
They were ruled by an emporer, and believed he was the son of their creator god, Viracocha
They conquered many tribes who paid tribute and followed Inca rule
They built roads and bridges all along the length of the Andes
They built huge cities in the jungles and mountains
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Describe the location of the Inca civilisation
(Challenge: why was road building so important to the Incas?)
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A farming society
The Incas were a farming society - they relied on agriculture
They built ingenious inventions to grow crops in cold, dry places
They used terraces to create farms on steep mountain slopes
They built complex irrigation systems to transport water to their crops across the mountains
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Why would it have been hard to grow crops high in the Andes mountains?
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Why was agriculture important?
Agriculture was vital as it meant that people didn't have to constantly worry about having to find food to survive.
This gave people the chance to do other jobs like being emperor, priest, warrior or scribe!
Having lots of food also allowed people to live together in much larger communities.
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The rise of inequality
The theme for this term is wealth and inequality.
Inequality means money and resources being shared unequally.
A small group of people might have a lot, whilst most people might have very little.
Today there is lots of inequality in the world, more than ever before.
Do you think this is fair?
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Inequality in early civilisations
Controlling agriculture allowed a few individual rulers to became very wealthy and powerful.
Priests and nobles also became rich and important advisors.
Warriors and artisans helped to keep law and order.
Many farmers and traders were needed to grow and trade crops.
Serfs and slaves had hard jobs working on farms and serving.
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Was Inca society unfair?
There was no concept of money, so most trade was done in crops – meaning farmers were wealthy!
There was no land ownership, land was shared. Everyone had a home and a place to farm.
Extra food was kept in public storehouses. When drought led to a bad harvest the poor, sick and elderly were looked after.
Slaves could earn their freedom.
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Agriculture and Religion
Agriculture changed they way people thought about nature.
The role of the priest class was to ensure that the gods remained happy, at whatever cost!
The Aztecs thought human sacrifice would be a great way to do this!
Tlaloc the Aztec god of rain was appeased through the tears of sacrificed children!
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Image drawn by a Spanish visitor to the Aztec civilisation, in modern-day Mexico
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Why do you think agriculture caused the Aztecs to commit human sacrifice?
Y8 Latin America -
The Rise of Civilisations
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