Compare And Contrast The Arts In Native American Culture

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In Native American cultures, the arts are different based on the region, but they are also similar. Throughout America the regions are similar because no matter which region you are in there are impressive gravesites built in each region. Another similarity all three regions had were the art had big heads to represent power and the egos of the kings. Same thing with the gravesites. The bigger the heads and gravesites the more powerful the kings were and it filled the kings’ egos.
In the Mesoamerica region of the Native Americas, they differed from the other regions because they played an early version of soccer, or as they say in Mexico Football. Their pyramids were stepped temple buildings loosely based off Egypt’s pyramid. The biggest are

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