Mesoamerica

(North Africa), Yoruba, Fulani and Hausa people of Nigeria, and Māori of New Zealand with facial tattoos. Tattooing was popular among certain ethnic groups in southern China, Polynesia, Africa, Borneo, Cambodia, Europe, Japan, the Mentawai Is-lands, MesoAmerica, New Zealand, North America and South America, the Philippines, Iron Age Britain, and Taiwan. It is a myth that the modern revival of tattooing stems from Captain James Cook's three voyages to the South Pacific in the late 1700s.…

Many young teens think that the Mayans are just a boring topic they learn at history class. I have realized that it's the opposite, the Mayan culture was unique and fascinating. After being a group of roaming nomads, the Mayans settled in Mesoamerica in 2600 B.C, and declined, for a mysterious reason, in 900 A.D. In their time of prominence, the Mayans did advances in astronomy and mathematics, and developed a very complex writing system and a calendrical system. They also had a distinctive…

name is the United Mexican States. The United Mexican States was shortened to Mexico, but not officially, more similar to a nickname for the country. Mexico was not called the United Mexican States until a few centuries back. Mexico pertained to Mesoamerica, which also included Central America. According to the article, “History of Mexico,” Olmecs were the first known civilization in Mexico. After the Olmecs, there were the Zapotec, the Maya, the Teotihuacán, the Toltec, and the Aztec…

introduction of European and African people and culture, and mercantilism. The differences range from the labor sources they used, the number of settlers, and how each country ruled their colony. The chapter focused on the Spanish colonies in Mesoamerica. These colonies were in the most wealthy, urbanized, and populated regions of the Western hemisphere. Their economics was based on commercial agriculture and gold and silver mining. To do this labor, they used the native people in forced labor,…

Teotihucan city is called the place of the Gods and in death you are called a God. The temple faces west, toward the direction of the setting sun and the Avenue of the Dead, and was built on top of a cave and a spring, both of which the people of Mesoamerica believed to be linked to the gods, the underworld, creation, and the afterlife. Stonehenge is also considered a burial ground for some people but also a place of worship for sun worshippers. It is unknown what type of rituals took place in…

After Columbus’s opening of the New World for European with his 1492 voyage, it was not long until more Europeans came to this unexplored world. One such explorer was Hernan Cortez of Spain who came into contact with the Aztec Empire. Through the work of The Broken Spears, edited by Miguel León-Portilla, a relationship of conflict from a lack of understanding and misinterpreting of the others intentions was seen between the Mexica and Spanish empires as the Mexica saw the Spanish as gods, and…

Mexico,40 miles east of present-day Mexico City, stood Teotihuacan. At its height Teotihuacan held about 100,000 inhabitants in 8 square miles. This city marked the beginning of a true urban revolution. Teotihuacan quickly became a dominant power in Mesoamerica. The residents prospered on agriculture, due to the irrigation the Lake Texcoco, craftwork and trade in ceramics and locally quarried obsidian. Maya Maya was built on the foundation of Olmec and Teotihuacan. The Maya lived in…

The book, 1491, by author Charles C. Mann delivers a meticulously crafted masterpiece of the “true” history of the Native Americans before the Europeans invaded the Americas and rewrote their history. Mann delves deep into the once pristine and massive empires of Native Americans that are typically disregarded in our modern day society due to sheer ignorance of life before modern colonization began. The author himself, Charles C. Mann, is a highly accomplished writer that has written for many…

people are a great fascination. They were creative, original, different and left a great mystery for today’s new world to explore. The Mayans were an ancient native American civilization who were known to be one of the most advanced civilizations in Mesoamerica today. They never progressed past the stone age to have seen advanced inventions like the wheel or other metal work that would have aided them in their architecture, but yet amazing detailed structures still stands today that tells the…

The Mayans “were a group of indigenous American ethic groups living in Mesoamerica, which is modern day Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and surrounding areas” (Brown). In general, the Mayan civilization was arranged into three periods: the preclassical period (200 B.C. to 300 A.D.), classical period (300 A.D. to 900 A.D.), and postclassical…