Aztec, Mayan, and Incan Webquest

 

Begin your webquest here....

Goals of the Webquest



When you are done this webquest you will complete the following tasks:


  1. Bullet On the map provided, you will identify where the Incan, Mayan, and Aztec empires were located.

  2. Bullet You will create a timeline of the 3 civilizations noting the beginning and end of each civilization (this will be ONE timeline with all 3 civilizations on it, not 3 separate timelines).

  3. Bullet You will answer the following questions in paragraph form:

  4. •  Which of the 3 civilizations would you have wanted to live in? Give at least two reasons why.

  5. • Of the two civilizations you wouldn’t wanted to have lived in, give one reason for each why you wouldn’t have wanted to live in either of those.

(This must be in paragraph form, so there should be two paragraphs, one on the civilization you want to live in and one on why you would not want to live in the other two.)


  1. Bullet You will also answer the questions pertaining to the religion, science, geography, decline, and culture of each civilization.


Begin your webquest by using the links below to answer the questions and complete the tasks.


Good Luck!

 

Geography:


On the map provided, identify where the Incan, Mayan, and Aztec civilizations were located.

In what modern countries would you have found these civilizations?


Use this website to help complete the map:


http://library.thinkquest.org/C006206F/images/images/mapa.jpg


These websites are maps of modern countries, you will need these to help answer the question of which modern countries were these civilizations found in.


http://www.mytravelguide.com/g/maps/Central-America-map.gif

(will help with Maya and Aztec)

http://enervisioninc.com/joss/images/south_america_map.gif

(will help with Inca)

Religions:


Were these empires polytheistic or monotheistic?  Name at l god from each civilization, and what they were the god of? (Through your reading about each civilization, you will be able to answer these two questions question)


Use the following sites to answer the next two questions:


http://library.thinkquest.org/10098/aztec.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/10098/mayan.htm#Temples

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/MAYAS.HTM

(look down at the religion part of this page)


Why were the pyramids of the Aztec and Maya built? What happened at the Aztec and Mayan temples?


Aztecs:


For the questions about the Aztecs, use the following site. You will probably need to click on a few of the links to help find your answers.


http://library.thinkquest.org/27981/index.html


What was the name of the Aztec capital/main city? Why did they build it where they did?

(Hint, this answer can be found in several places on the site, but best look under the religion/beliefs section)


Aztec Calendar:


How many months did the Aztecs have? How is their calendar alike and different from ours?


Decline:


Who was Hernando Cortez and how did he help bring about the end of the Aztec civilization?


This site may help answer the above question:

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/cortez.htm


Maya:


For the questions about the Mayas, the following site will help answer most of the questions. You will probably need to look on the left which has the topics to help find your answers.


http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/MAYAS.HTM


Calendar:

How many calendars did the Maya have? How accurate were they?


Decline:

Do we know why the Maya civilization declined?

Inca:


The following website will help answer some of the following questions:

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/INCAS.HTM


Who was Atahualpa?


Who was Francisco Pizarro and how did he help bring about the end of the Incan civilization?


Religion:


Use the following website to help answer the questions regarding Incan religion.

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/tour_def/mythology/inti_sun.html


Who was Inti? What did he have his children do?


Technology:

To answer the next question, use the site underneath it:


Why were Inca roads so impressive?


http://incas.mrdonn.org/roads.html



Did Incans write and keep records?



What is Macchu Pichu? Who “found it”?

http://www.sacredsites.com/americas/peru/machu_picchu.html

(This will help answer the above question)

Timeline Help:


Use the following sites to help develop your timeline. Remember, you will make ONE timeline that contains the start and end date for each civilization.


http://www.xtimeline.com/events.aspx?q=Bif200711050918482930264


http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/MAYAS.HTM

(look at the history part for dates)


http://library.thinkquest.org/27981/time.html


DO NOT FORGET TO WRITE YOUR TWO PARAGRAPHS ABOUT THE CIVILIZATION YOU WOULD WANT TO BE A PART OF AND THOSE YOU DON’T. YOU MUST CHOSE ONE, YOU CANNOT TELL ME THAT NONE OF THEM ARE WHAT YOU WOULD WANT, AS YOU ARE REQUIRED TO DO SO.  So, for example, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TELL ME “I wouldn’t want to live in any of them because I don’t like them, they aren’t modern, or any other reason like that”.