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16 Cards in this Set
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Title: Great Pyramid Culture/Geo: Olmec, La Venta Period:Formative Significance: first pyramid platform in mesoamerican history |
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Title: Offering #4 Culture/Geo: Olmec, La Venta Period:Formative Significance: 16 male figurines in semi-circle in front of 6 jade celts |
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Title:Hollow Baby Culture/Geo: Olmec, Las Bocas Period: Formative Significance: Some are depicted with supernatural features |
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Title: Altar #4 Culture/Geo: Olmec, La Venta Period: Formative Significance: Eyers and fangs suggest a jaguar above head |
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Title: Abstract Mosaic Pavement Culture/Geo: Olmec, La Venta Period:Formative Significance: Consists of up to 485 blocks of serpitine. 3 mosaics were buried |
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Title: Greenstone Youth & Baby Culture/Geo: Olmec, Las Limas Period: Formative Significance: first thought to be a depiction of Mary & Jesus |
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Title:Kunz Axe Culture/Geo: Olmecs Period:Formative Significance:Were-Jaguar may elude to going between two realms |
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Title: Colossal Heads Culture/Geo: Olmec, San Lorenzo Period: Formative Significance: used as a intimidation factor. There were 13 |
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Title: Eagle Warrior Culture/Geo: Aztec, Mexico City Period: Post Classic Significance: Bits of stucco show that it might have been covered in stucco at some point |
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Title: Chacmool with Tlaloc Mask Culture/Geo: Aztec, Mexico City Period: Post Classic Significance:Hold a bowl to collect an offering to the gods |
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Title:Mendoza, Founding of Tenochtitlan Culture/Geo: Aztec, Mexico City Period: Post Classic Significance: The Bird with the snake in its mouth is now the symbol on the mexican flag |
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Title: Plan of Center of Tenochtitlan Culture/Geo: Aztec, Mexico City Period:Post Classic Significance: Skull rack directly over the ballcourt. Heads of sacrifices? |
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Title: Great Calender Stone Culture/Geo:Aztec, Mexico City Period: Post Classic Significance: Does not serve as a calender but as a record of when the earth will end |
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Title: Coatlicue Culture/Geo: Aztec, Mexico City Period:Post Classic Significance:Sculpture was so fearsome that it was reburied for some years |
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Title:Coyolxauhqu Culture/Geo: Aztec, Mexico City Period:Post Classic Significance:Made people believe that Temple Mayor was a place of major scarifice |
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Title:Olmec Lord In Bird Dress Culture/Geo: Olmec, Oxtotitlan Period: Formative Significance:The bird's eyes was probably filled with a precious material |
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Title: Mound J Culture/Geo: Zapotecs, Monte Alban I Period: Formative Significance: oriented to the rise of the Capella |
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Title: Danzantes Culture/Geo: Zapotecs, Monte Alban I Period: Formative Significance: Two of 300 individual incised stone slabs found at Monte Alban |
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Title: Stela 11 Culture/Geo:Zapotec, Kaminalijuyú Period: Formative Significance:The standing warrior appears in the guise of the bird deity |
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Title:Pyramid of the Moon Culture/Geo: Teotihucan, Period: Classic Significance: Framed by cerro gordo |
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Title: Pyramid of the Sun Culture/Geo: Teotihucan Period: Classic Significance: the largest building in Teotihuacán |
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Title: Temple of the Feathered Serpent Culture/Geo: Teotihuacan Period: Classic Significance: Feathered Serpents alternate w/ another snake-like creature |
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Title: The Great Goddess Mural Culture/Geo:Teotihuacan Period:Classic Significance:Vegetation is growing out of her head, some think it might be a world tree |
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Title: E-VII-sub Culture/Geo: Maya, Uaxactún Period:Formative Significance:radial pyramid, over 8 m high, with staircases on all four sides, flanked by giant “mask” facades |
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Title: North Acropolis and Great Plaza Culture/Geo: Maya, Tikal Period: Classic Significance: |
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Title: The Leiden Plate Culture/Geo: Maya, Tikal Period: Classic Significance: Used for blood Sacrifice |
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Title: Stela 29 Drawing of Early King Culture/Geo: Maya, Tikal Period: Classic Significance:the earliest dated monument at Tikal |
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Title: Stela 31 Culture/Geo: Maya Tikal Period:Classic Significance:inscriptions refer to Stormy Sky, his father curl-snout, and his grandfather Spearthrower Owl |
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Title: Stela 4 Curl Nose Culture/Geo: Maya Tikal Period:Classic Significance:Curl snout bears the jaguar God of the underworld in his right hand |
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Title: Temple of Inscriptions Culture/Geo:Maya, Palenque Period:Late Classic Significance:Lord Pakal's tomb was found here |
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Title: Portrait of Lord Pakal Culture/Geo:Maya, Palenque Period:Late CLassic Significance: found in lord pakals tomb |
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