Mesoamerican chronology

I have picked up a lot this semester, the standards, the social studies fair, and then all of the lesson plans. I enjoy how each of the topic was treated as a separate unit in the classroom. The current events is something maybe too advanced for the children the age I’m going to teach, but I think its defiantly important to keep the children informed about the world around them. During each unit I could have the children watch the news and pick something that happened, to reflect on. I have…

Happiness doesn't come through selfishness, but through selfishness everything you do comes back around. In our world today, many people show selfishness. In literature many characters portray selfishness and show throughout stories how selfish people can be in real life. Authors make the characters showing selfishness so the reader can relate. In both “The Landlady” and “The Umbrella Man,” both of the characters show the relation between characters and humans in real life. They both show the…

Aztec rituals are very different from your modern day religious ceremonies. I am currently on a journey to understand this culture. By using google scholar and google I was able to find sources that will allow me to better understand this culture. While reading and understanding the Aztecs, I will determine whether a source is reliable or not. In this paper I will analyze the following websites: www.ancient.eu/Aztec_sacrifce/ and www.USHistory.org/civ/11d.asp concerning the topic of Aztec…

While other cultures practiced human sacrifice, the Aztec empire is the most well-known and most aggressive group known to have practiced human sacrifice. The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican tribe that lived in the thirteenth century. The Aztec empire only existed for a short time, but left a significant impact, especially in regards to human sacrifices (Tuerenhout 7). The gruesome ritual of human sacrifice has been held as a special religious practice for the Aztecs. The creation stories of the…

Young Earth creationism is the belief where the world was created in 6, 24-hour days, and the age of the world is approximately 6000 years old. The Young Earth creationism uses the great flood to show how it makes sense. Making the world and everything on it young. This ideal that the earth is young is not a new ideal and has been around since between 700 and 735 AD, when a monk by the name of Venerable Bede claimed the creation of the world was in 3952 BC. Many other people have placed the…

article then transitions into a look at how modern scholars “accept an underlying premise which demonizes the practitioners of human sacrifice,” hindering proper analyses of Aztec culture (Pennock 297). It also discusses modern efforts to reclaim mesoamerican heritage and culture and the unhelpful “revisionist discourse . . . that . . . embraces . . . the underlying assumption that ritual violence can only be practised by an irretrievably cruel and barbaric culture” (Pennock 296). All parts of…

In 2000, Christopher Nolan released his widely acclaimed neo noir Memento. The film stars Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby, a former insurance investigator suffering from severe anterograde memory dysfunction. His condition is a result of experiencing head trauma after witnessing his wife’s murder, and consequently, he is unable to remember anything for more than fifteen minutes. The film focuses on his pursuit of his wife’s killer, which is complicated by his paranoia and confusion. Nolan…

Residing in Babylon has been tied to my families history for decades. Us residents, our families, and ancestors have experienced first hand the impact a ruler can have on his subordinates. With Prince Hammurabi acquiring the throne through hereditary rule, he composed 282 lex talionis. I support Hammurabi to be a sincere ruler of justice and piety, because in my opinion, due to the fact that within the literature, Hammurabi enforces equality within the social classes through new methods of…

The Inca and The Aztecs The Inca and The Aztec empires were two very important tribes from the past. They have many differences, between culture, food, etc. They were very different people; living far away from each other. I'm going to discuss a few of their differences, from culture, traditions, and customs. To housing units, food source, and beliefs. Culture Culture is the basic “ all of the above “ thing. It helps show what a tribe does, believes in, and acts. The differences between…

influenced the methods used by researchers when reviewing the historical trajectory of ceramic analysis in the Maya area. To follow this path, an examination of the earliest explorers in the Maya area is necessary. During the time of the first Mesoamerican explorers, such as Catherwood, Maudslay, and Maler, the Southwestern archaeologists have already created a systematic way to analyze ceramics. One of the most well-known methods developed within Southwestern archaeology is the "Midwestern…