Mesoamerica

Christopher Columbus is well known for being the man who discovered America. If not, he’s known as the guy who stole that from the Vikings. However, he should be credited with being the person who brought the new world and the old world together. This is my opinion. Question 1: How is Columbus a hero according to his journal? His journal shows that he did indeed come to the Americas, but he never set foot in North America on record. When he arrived in the Bahamas, he wrote about the people of…

Sentence 1: “Despite the ongoing controversy on when the peopling of the Americas took place, there is little doubt that the Paleo-India period or adaptation was widely and firmly entrenched in Mesoamerica, and Central and South America between 13,000 and 9,000 years ago.” It seems that many of Paleo-Indian that date back to at least 10,000 years have been discovered by Peru, Ecuador and Chile’s coasts. Hence the site of these same Indians can be found in the Amazonia in Brazil amongst the…

Spanish men endured months of difficult voyages in search of three things in the Americas- gold, glory, and God. In addition, having had arrived with the drive to conquer, they were soon enough met with mighty and diverse civilizations that made up Mesoamerica-- proving itself to be the perfect opportunity to take the wealth of these peoples, obtain territory, and maybe convert a few souls to Catholicism. However, these civilizations were very large and very strong. The courage, strength, and…

Does the design of the Americas civilisations prove the theory that all of them came from the same civilisation Do the design similarities of the Olmec Maya Aztec and Inca civilisations strengthen the theory that all of this civilisations belong to the same mother civilisation that we have yet to discover. The Olmec, Mayan, Incan and Aztec civilisations are some of the greatest ancient civilisations known to our history so far and yet we know so little about them compared to other ancient…

Mississippi Indians, Peruvians, and Mexican natives. The number of domesticated animals and their aggressive attitude prevented the New World from spreading the diseases. Writing originally started in South Western Asia with Sumerian cuneiform, Mesoamerica, and probably China. Other cultures adapted to writing by copying. Other sites of writing was Egypt and Easter Island. The Greeks adapted an alphabet adding vowel sounds. The Etruscans modified the Greek alphabet later used by the…

Along the south coast of Peru in the 3rd – 5th century CE, people from area drew the outlines of animals, plants, and geometric shapes into the sand, now known as the Nazca geoglyphs. Unlike most art of the time, these were on a monumental scale as some were 400+ feet long and straight lines were continuous for 1,000+ feet, stopping at a pile of stones. This pile of stones is important because it links to a ritual of Peruvians still in use today – ceremonial walking. Just as modern ceremonial…

The archaic stage was the second stage of cultural development in the Americas. The archaic stage is when most cultures began living more settled lives in contrast to continual migrating in search of food. They began improving their tools and used baskets for food gathering and storage. The beginning stages of agriculture come at this stage. The period of time it took one culture to progress into this stage of cultural evolution varied from one group to another. Each culture's needs and…

Chapter 5: History’s Haves and Have Nots The overall point of this chapter was to figure out why some areas adopted food production at different times of other areas. Only a few areas had developed food production independently, but they had done so at very different times. Near those areas, hunter-gatherers adopted food production, while other areas did not and were replaced by invading food producers, but again, at very different times. Many people of some ecologically sound areas for food…

2008 Stonehenge Decoded (film). National Geographic Television. Michael Parker-Pearson’s interpretation of Stonehenge is that it is a home for the ancestors. He believes that Stonehenge was built by a chiefdom comprised of thousands of individuals. Although these people are farmers, it is suggested that they brought supplies with them during times of gathering. The chiefdom would travel to Stonehenge to honour their ancestors on the summer solstice to see the sun rise. This was a time when they…

New World in 1492, Spanish men endured months of difficult voyages in search of three things- gold, glory, and God. In addition with arriving with the drive to conquer, they were soon enough met with mighty and diverse civilizations that made up Mesoamerica-- proving itself to be the perfect opportunity to take the wealth of these peoples, obtain territory, and maybe convert a few souls to Catholicism. However, these civilizations were very large and very strong. The courage, strength, and the…