Tribal Societies: Mayans, Aztecs, And Incas

The slave trade started by other African colonies capturing other Africans from other African colonies and Europeans trading guns and weapons to the kings of the African colonies there prisoners. Around one in every 10 voyages there would be major rebellion among the African slaves. It got to the point of them having many less slaves enter the market because the African slaves that rebelled and fought didn’t make it and got killed or thrown overboard. There is precise regions that the resistant’s came from. The most rebellion prone areas were Upper Guinea, Senegambia, Sierra Leone, and the Windward Coast, which had the slightest amount of participation in the slave trade. The ships the African slaves were sent on were the most unsanitary conditions, they captions of the ship would put as many African onto the ship as possible making them live in their own feces and dirt. Which so many of the slaves would die of diseases and other sicknesses. The African men would also commit suiside because they didn’t want to be slaves. This was a form of rebellion. This rebellion was natural. The African slaves were taken without their consent. Millions of slaves didn’t make it

The Maya were believed to existence in 1800 BC and gone by 1500 AD. They had a lot of big cities but no capital. Many of the people lived in hay huts, some in limestone buildings built on tall pyramids which could actually be used as landmarks. They have a constant reminder the gods are present with the pyramids and first one was built right before Christ birth. Their agriculture was based on the economy, there main crop was corn but also grew cotton, beans, squash and cocao. They hunted deer, duck, turkey, monkeys, iguana, and other things with bow and arrows, blowguns, darts to eat, they did a little fishing. The Mayan art was about politics, the

The Maya were a people from Middle America, which includes modern Guatemala, Southern Mexico, and Northern Belize (Editors). The Maya civilization was considered to be “one of the most dominant indigenous societies of Mesoamerica,” (Maya). “The Maya excelled at agriculture, pottery, hieroglyph writing, calendar-making, and mathematics, and left behind an astonishing amount of impressive architecture and symbolic artwork,” (Maya). They also gave mankind the modern calendar (Jarus, Maya). The Mayans were a very advanced people, but one of the most important things in the Mayan culture was their religion/god worshipping rituals.

The slave trade in North America originated because plantation owners in the South need large amounts of cheap labor and there was not enough European servants coming to the Americas.

The slave ship sailed from the home country with a cargo of manufactured goods. These were exchanged at a profit on the coast of Africa for Negroes, who were traded on the plantations, at another profit, in exchange for a cargo of colonial produce to be taken back to the home country. As the volume of trade increased, the triangular trade was supplemented, but never supplanted, by a direct trade between home country and the West Indies, exchanging home manufactures directly for colonial produce.

With the European discovery of the New World, African slave trade began to grow. Slaves were traded and bought and then shipped to some other place and then sold. Europeans would trade things for slaves then bring them to places like the West Indies and sell them. They would then buy goods and bring the goods back to Europe. This was the triangular trade system. Slaves played a vital role in trade all over the world, old and new. Although African slavery had already existed, there were many reasons as to why it was needed during the Atlantic World and there were many effects of this.

-The “Clovis” peoples, (named after the spearhead used in hunting) of North America came across bringing diversifying languages, and ways of life with them

“For evidence that the notion of Europeans introducing ‘civilization’ to the Americas is a lie, one need only look at the Aztec and Mayan peoples.” The Mayan civilization began prospering at around 900 BC - AD 300. The Mayas were extremely inventive with a interesting and vivacious culture. They erected are religious enters and communities and created advanced watering systems for irrigation and water storage. By 300 AD the Mayan city of Tikal had at least 20,000 people, including farmers and laborers used to create large temples for religious devotion decorated by skilled artisans. The ruling class was an elite group who claimed to be descendants from gods, not to completely unlike the monarchy or bourgeoisie in Europe. One of the most well know inventions of the Mayans was the calendar which they used to record noteworthy accounts such as historical events and predictions of solar and lunar eclipses, done so with remarkable accuracy. The Mayans were so advanced that they developed their own form of written language called hieroglyphics allowed the further progression and movement of ideas, creating a complex society.

Imagine that you are a Mayan in 3114 BCE and you were trying to help make the long count calendar, but you don’t know the math. The Mayans were a Native American tribe that lived in Mesoamerica(now Central America).They did rituals to please the gods and practiced slash and burn agriculture. They created the calendar and a trade network. They also created a number system and many cities.

After the Americas’ existence became known to Europeans and the wealth that they contained, European states became extremely interested in making as much profit from the Americas as possible. Spain is among the first European nations to begin to send what is called conquistadors to the Americas for the reasons as the Spaniards said to teach the native population Christianity, for glory for the Spain, and as well to gain material riches from the discovery of precious and valuable metals such as gold. Coming and settling in the Americas were not easy tasks. The conquistadors attempted, with some success to for the native population to labor in their behalf, but this eventually proved to be a failure. Spaniards needed to fill that labor

There are many empires, but three big ones are the Mayan, Incan, and the Aztec. The Incan Empire is better than the Mayan and Aztec because of their geography, farming, religion, social, classes, and achievements.

Prior to the arrival of the English colonial settlers, there was an extensive Spanish influence in the New World. Soon after England’s first colonization efforts, several changes took place that strengthened their ability to colonize America in the early 1600s: the Protestant Reformation, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and the changes in the English economy. In the early 1500s, England and Spain had a strong connection based on their dedication to the Roman Catholic Church and the marriage between Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon.

The Classical Maya was lost to the archaeological records until the last 200 years due to it’s abandonment. When the Mayans left there great cities, thick vines and jungles overtook the great monuments they once built. But in the last 200 years, in depth research has lead to breakthroughs into what the Classic Maya was like. The earliest Mayans were agriculturalist, growing crops such as corn (maize), beans, squash and cassava. The Mayans also invented a very accurate calendar, a math code using 0’s, constructed buildings still intact today, and a writing system that took decades to decode. The Mayans were situated in one geographical block covering all of the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico), modern-day Guatemala, Belize, parts of the Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas, and the western part of Honduras and El Salvador. Due to their location on the

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The Mayan civilization society was very complex and intelligent; rising to become very influential to people in different areas and much of their influence is still felt today. Relics indicate they were very skilled in mathematics, education, astronomy and astrology, agriculture, architecture, and politics. They originated in the Yucatan area of present day Mexico between 250 and 900 A.D.