On October 24, 709 C.E, Shield the Jaguar the Great and his wife Lady K’ab’al Xook
On October 24, 709 C.E, Shield the Jaguar the Great and his wife Lady K’ab’al Xook
¬¬ Have you ever wondered how civilizations managed to live during the height of their power? One of the greatest pre-conquest Mesoamerican cultures was the “Toltecs.” According to the dictionary of World History, it defines the Toltec civilization as: A northern Mexican tribe, who established a military state between the 10th and 12th centuries at Tula, 80 km north of modern Mexico City. They played an important part in the downfall of the city of Teotihuacán and were themselves overrun in the mid‐12th century by nomadic Chichimec tribes from the north.…
Isamar Jaquez 2/29/16 Period 5 1. The purpose of both these lintels is to be records of the Maya dynasties. Lintels 24 and 25 show a series of rituals performed by Shield Jaguar II and his wife. Lintel 24 depicts a bloodletting ritual performed by the king of Yaxchilán and his wife. This sacrifice mirrored the Maya story of the creation of the human race: gods would bleed out to create them.…
Art, Ceremony, and War: An Archeological Analysis and Interpretations of the Aztec Located in central Mexico, most notably a place called Tenochtitlan located on an island in Lake Texaco, was a civilization known as the Aztecs. The Aztecs were one of the powerful civilizations that dominated what is current Mexico. The Aztec were a people with a rich culture and have that have had a great influence on modern Mexico and even the world. After the end of the Aztec civilization their art, tools, and weapons were left behind; and through archeology we can learn about the different aspects of civilizations through what was left behind. By using the archeological process of recovering, analyzing, experimenting, and interpreting we recover pieces…
More gigantic heads like the one at Tres Zapotes, in addition to a number of massive stone altars and stelae, have been discovered at the La Venta site. This site was the Olmec people's most important cultural center. It was their capital city, the cultural heart of their society. These massive stone works were somehow floated by means of…
Tenochtitlan, also known as the impossible city, capital of the Aztec Empire was one of the most historic cities in the world. It was one of the largest cities around the Spanish conquest, housing about 200,00 people (03/04/17, https://www.courses.psu.edu/anth/anth008_cmg149/aten.html). Larger than London, Paris, and even Rome, it was a bustling metropolis that housed thousands of craftsmen. The architecture of Tenochtitlan was astounding, every structure was carefully painted and ornamented. It was crisscrossed by an intricate pattern of canals.…
My family originates from Michoacán ("place of those who have fish") Mexico. In pre-Columbian days the state was better known as the Tarascan state which was started in the early 14th century. However, by 1530 the Spanish would conquer the state and my people. This is all very similar to what happened in Mexico City (Tenochtitlan) in 1521 when an army of soldiers lead by Hernan Cortés was ordered to capture the Aztec civilization that they were amazed by. One of the great accomplishments of both the Aztec’s and the Purépecha’s…
The Zapootec civilization consisted of former Olmec civilizations and are located in Oaxaca, Mexico. To this day many citizens still live, caring on the traditions of their ancestors. Today, the ancient ruins look like the picture above. They are in wonderful condition considering they were made between 300 and 900 CE. Pyramids, like the one above, were used to depict culture and development.…
For my final project I have chosen to feature Egypt 's Pyramids of Giza and Mexico 's Teotihuacan, which are pictured on the pages above, as my subjects. The Pyramids of Giza were constructed between 2575-2465 BCE. They belong to Egypt 's Old Kingdom, and were built for three of the 4th dynasties pharaohs. Over 7,600 miles to the west lays the ancient city of Teotihuacan. It belongs to Mesoamerica, and consists of two large pyramids, a smaller, but no less important, temple, and several smaller buildings.…
1. This week we are comparing and contrasting two pyramids. The first of the two pyramids is the Step Pyramid in the funerary complex of Djoser. The Step Pyramid is dated to 2630 to 2575 B.C.E. It is roughly 204 feet tall and made out limestone.…
The dot represented the value of one, a line represented five of anything, and the shell represented zero. Even though, the two factors stated above do contribute to the Mayan legacy, the thing that represents the Mayans the best are their incredibly built architectural pyramids, located in their array of cities such as, Chichenitza, Palenque, and Uxmal. Sadly, it is believed by experts at the History Channel, that by the year of 900 A.D. most of the great Mayan cities were abandoned, and the Mayas were in a rapid decline (). Injustice played a big role, but so did many other…
If left up to the text of the 16th century the fall of the Aztec Empire would be accredited only to Cortes, but as Kevin O. Collins stressed in The Fatal Flaws of the Aztec Empire we see that we must look past the conquest and look more to the political, and religious view of the Aztec. Writers, such as William Prescott saw the flaws in the manuscripts written by those under Cortes and stressed that it was the mismanagement of Tenochtitlan that caused its fall. Unfortunately for this paper I will not be focusing on the fall of the Aztec Empire, but I will be focusing on what made the empire great; its symbolism, myths, temples, and if only for a little its ruler Motecuhzoma the second. Tenochtitlan, the capital city of the Aztec Empire was in what is now present day Mexico City. Tenochtitlan was immense in size housing over 200,000 inhabitants at its high; the city was constructed on an island.…
The study by Golitko et al. (2012) examined obsidian distribution—a material valuable to the Maya which can easily be traced to its source—in order to map trade routes during the Classic, Terminal Classic, and Postclassic periods. The results show that Classic trade relied mainly on inland networks, but there were emerging coastal routes, particularly along the northern Yucatan Peninsula, which, by the Terminal Classic period, were transporting large amounts while the inland routes saw great decline (Golitko et al., 2012, 511-514). This shows the shift towards coastal routes had begun before societal collapse, an important point because it means that trade changes did not occur because of the collapse. Causes of this inland-to-coastal trade shift remain unclear; however, prior to trade change or drought, the Maya political system was unstable due to continuous political competition between cities and within dynasties, which caused frequently shifting political alliances as well as physical conflict (Douglas, et al., 617).…
The Aztec worldview consisted of them believing they were the center of the universe. They had established one of the greatest civilization in the thirteenth century . As well as developing some of the most innovative artwork and temples around the world. For example Templo Mayor which shows some of the artwork that they had created centuries ago . They were crafty individuals in many areas such as stonework,pottery,scribes, and feather clothing.…
According to Brandner, along the east coast of Mexico there are evidences of language and mathematical relationships in the pre-classic period, before 200 BC going back before eighteen hundred B.C., the period is much larger in terms of structural influences of the American and central American native peoples. It might be possible that some of the Maya migrated to Southeastern North America. A connection possibly as far west to Choco canyon and north up to Wisconsin then as far East as the Carolinas, where extensive archaeological excavations have taken place (Brandner 2014). For example, ancient Cherokee and Yuchi elders tell stories of how they migrated to the Carolinas and the south in four to five different migrations.…
One of the most dominant indigenous societies in Mesoamerica includes the Maya civilization. The Maya primarily inhabited the Yucatan Peninsula of modern-day Mexico and other sections of modern-day Guatemala and Mexico; they occupied the area from around 1800 BC. The Mayans dominated the area in the time period from 300 C.E. to 900 C.E., which historians consider the classical period of the Maya civilization. The Empire reached its peak—its golden age—in sixth century C.E. Nineteen million people, which constituted three culturally and linguistically different groups, very densely populated the area. The Mayans excelled in ornate pottery, innovative agriculture, astronomical observations, and complex yet foundational mathematics; they also…