Obsidian

eventually giving way to suburbs as the diver closed efficiently upon his destination. Not an hour after he had arrived in that city's airport, the man who was Greed itself, now wearing his sunglasses and carrying a gold-capped cane of polished obsidian, stood at the doorstep of a certain family who had, twenty years past, placed their names upon a contract with him. The doorbell rang without him needing touch it as, with an infuriating swagger, one of the Devil's seven faces walked up the steps…

built either cities or large settlements. Their interaction with each other and other cultures helped to progress this. The Early Preclassic Maya had regularly traded and exchanged goods with both local and distant people. They were able to import obsidian, jade and iron pyrite from different regions in Mesoamerica. They even acquired conch shells for jewelry and salted reef fish from the Caribbean coast. This trade and regular interaction between other cultures and other Maya settlements…

In “Se Habla Espanol” the author, executive communication’s director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Tanya Maria Barrientos, explains the struggles of a Latina who does not speak Spanish fluently. Barrientos has two main audiences who she is addressing. The first audience is mainstream America, such as her classmates and other people born in America that she desired to fit in with. She is trying to help them gain a better cultural understanding by exposing them to her personal views.…

Lawrence Keeley’s overarching point of view is that primitive civilizations, despite previous opinion, were extremely violent and often engaged in warfare. The common philosophy is that the hunter-gathers were peaceful, nomadic people who didn’t turn violent until the beginning of agriculture. Instead, Keeley proves that there was no such thing as the “peaceful people” and that overall number of deaths due to violence has actually decreased since the hunter-gatherer days. In civilized warfare,…

allow the Pueblos to begin constructing houses out of stone around 800 C.E., and officially begin the Pueblo period of the region. The Pueblo were able to use the volcanic rocks that existed in the bottom of the Grand Canyon to create stone tools; obsidian was used to arrowheads and crude blades, while basalt was used for hammers and axes because of its hardness. Pumice was also used in agriculture, as a way of releasing water slowly to crops to conserves water. Corn, beans, and squash were the…

that study these ancient civilizations, we learn form their studies that these structures that the Mayans worked hard to build, were very well built. These Mayan cities were made with perishable and non-perishable materials, such as: wood, jade, obsidian, ceramics, sculpted stone, and finely painted murals. We can also see that on the walls of these large temples they built, the Mayans used hieroglyphic writings on the walls and because of these writings, we can learn the type of life they lived…

In the Middle Ages, there were many approaches to medicine. As seen in the series of documents, different societies treated sickness and healing with a unique means. While some people believed in the power of herbs and nature, others believed in godly wrath or praise. These were not the only forms of treatment either. There were methods we still use today, such as bathing and keep hygienic, to drawing diagrams of a human body to deconstruct a patient’s state. We can examine these sources to see…

It seems like yesterday that I would sit in front of the screen watching the motorcycles race around the track at insane speeds. The way the motorcycles rounded the corners and ripped apart the straightaways awakened a raging fire deep in the pit of my stomach that would seem only intensify with as I grew older. Every since I was a young boy I was fascinated with motorcycles. I would love to see them as they would pass by mom’s car on the freeway, or whenever we would go to the store in our…

INTRO The Aztec civilization settled in Central America, or modern day Mexico, and lasted approximately 300 years, from 1345-1521 AD. The Aztec people lineage traces back to the barbarian chichimecs. Their name also means ‘people of Aztlan’. The capital of the Aztecs, Tenochtitlan dates back to 1345, the start of their civilization. Their population was one of the biggest of their time period, with roughly twenty five million people the Aztecs rapidly expanded over the course of approximately…

While presenting a lecture on the “Danger of a Single Story” in a 2009 Ted Talk in London England, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie remarked that if a people are shown as one thing, over and over again, that is what they become. For centuries the conquest of Mexico and the fall of the Aztec empire has been a single story told through only European accounts. In The Broken Spears Miguel León-Portilla provides an account of the first arrival of European colonizers through a collection of codices authored…