1. Warm Up – March 7 Answer the following questions on a post it:
Name the Two Major Political Parties
Name the First Two Political Parties
Name a Third Party
Name the Six Propaganda Techniques
How many total electoral votes are there in the United States?
How many electoral votes does NC have?
How many electoral votes does a candidate need to receive to be elected?

2. Unit 3: Political parties and elections
Test Review

3. Test Review – Create a Kahoot
Go to getkahoot.com Click ”Sign up as a teacher” Fill out the information to set up an account Create a Quiz Title it “Political Parties and Elections” Description: Civics Audience: School Using notes and handouts – create a quiz that has 15 questions with four choices each covering Political Parties and Elections

4. Warm Up – March 7 Answer the following questions on a post it:
1. Describe the Hierarchy System of the Aztecs
2. Describe a religious similarity between the Aztecs and Incas
3. What did the Aztecs require of conquered peoples?
4. Describe the incan mita system
5. Describe a political similarity between the Aztecs and Incas

5. PERIOD 3: 600-1450 (Regional and Trans-regional interaction)
Aztecs and Incas

6. Aztec Sacrifice Reading Questions
Answer the following questions on the same post it as the warm up:
1. What was the difference between how warriors and merchants obtained their sacrificial victims?
2. What did a merchant have to do with the victim before they were sacrificed?
3. What did the merchant do with the body after?
4. Describe the rituals of the priest
5. What was the purpose of the Aztec sacrifices?
6. What rituals did priests perform to make gods send more rain?
7. What happened to most of the victims’ bodies following the sacrifices?

7. General Info Aztecs = in Mexico and Central America
Incas = in South America
Both lacked: work animals, metal tools, wheels
Both still developed: centralized governments & armies and both conquered other empires
Both ended when: conquered by the Spanish

8. Aztec Empire

9. Inca Empire

10. Aztec Empire Capital = Tenochtitlan (modern-day Mexico City)
Agricultural center and marketplace

11. Aztec Empire
Built chinampas = artificial islands used for farming made by piling mud from the lake onto rafts  floating gardens
As population grew, Aztecs expanded outside of the city  built canals and bridges to connect the mainland to the island where the capital was

13. The Empire Stretched from Mexico to the border of Guatemala
Stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
Conquered people had to pay tribute (taxes) in the form of: food, clothing, raw materials, prisoners for sacrifice, jewelry, military supplies, rubber balls, etc.

14. The Empire Aztec civilization organized as a hierarchy
At the top = the emperor
Classes = nobility, commoners, serfs, slaves
Land owned by: nobility and commoners
Commoners = priests, merchants, artisans, farmers
Serfs = farm workers tied to noble lands
Lowest class = slaves = prisoners of war; criminals; debtors – often sacrificed

15. God of dying & resurrection
Religion & the Arts
Religion moved them to engage in war and sacrifice
Live human sacrifices were needed to keep the gods happy
Aztec artists decorated temple-pyramids with scenes of gods or battles
Writers glorified Aztec victories in their works
Quetzalcoatl
God of dying & resurrection

16. The Inca Empire Lived in the Andes Mountains in South America
Empire stretched about 2500 miles along the Andes
Capital = Cuzco

17. The Inca Empire Raided other tribes and slowly built a large empire
Strong central government  local rulers had to report to Inca emperor
Unlike the Aztec Empire, which had no centralized government or complex administration

18. The Inca Empire Emperor closely controlled the lives of common people
Owned all land and carefully regulated the growing & distribution of food
Farmers used step terraces on hillsides
Part of all crops after every harvest went to emperor as taxes

19. The Inca Empire
Work crews built roads & bridges to link different regions of the empire
Gods pleased with food, animal, and human sacrifices
Not even close to the scale of the Aztecs
No writing system  used quipus to record information = ropes with knotted cords of different lengths

20. The Inca Empire Mita = labor service used
Required periodically of every household
Required to work for the state
Examples: farming, herding, mining, crafting manufactured goods, construction
In return: state provided elaborate feasts for the people

21. “Gender Paralleliism”
Both the Aztec and Inca Empires used this system with men and women
Separate spheres and responsibilities, but each one equally valuable
Each had autonomy in its own sphere
Did NOT mean total gender equality

22. CREATE A DBQ
Working with a partner, you are going to create a DBQ – your question – Using the following documents, assess the level of cultural and technological development of the Aztec and Incan Empires.
You must have 7 documents that can be grouped into three different groups – include the source (person, status, title of document)
Provide a guiding question for each document
Use the DBQs we have used in class as a model to create your DBQ