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    The Aztecs In this essay i will be writing about the Aztec and mayan tribes and their similarities and differences.The aztecs were located in central mexico and the mayans were located in the yucatan peninsula.To start off by saying both the aztecs and the mayan have many similarities and differences.For one they both had a calendar of 365 days based on the sun’s movement.The aztecs originated as a nomadic tribe in northern Mexico and arrived in mesoamerica in the 13th century. The aztecs…

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    De Soto Expedition

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    command de soto do them . De soto gets married to a beautiful woman and the settles in Seville spain he gets an appointed of cuzco. De soto choose to lead a scouting mission in peru. De so gets appointed regidor and then leads an expedition up the yucatan , May 8,1541 de soto was the first person that was an European to cross the Mississippi River , de soto was on his way to arrive to georgia , he has embark an expedition to florida , he has choose to come back to central america. Late…

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    Mexico: A Short Story

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    Take a look around, campers! The year is 750 AD, and we’ve landed on the beautiful northern beaches of Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. You might be standing in modern day Cancun, but this is no time for a vacation — we are explorers! We’ve got work to do. To the north and due west of where we’re standing, the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico surround us. To the east, there’s even more water, and just on the horizon, you can see the world’s largest Caribbean island, Cuba. To the south looms a dense…

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    The Cretaceous-Tertiary

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    place 65 million years ago. The K/T is the event in which the dinosaurs died in. The cause of this event is debated, however it is widely accepted by most scientists that the K/T extinction was triggered when a giant asteroid or comet struck the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico killing off close to 80% of life on Earth. This event was totally random and if it…

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    Dinosaur Extinction Essay

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    65,000,000 years ago, an entire species was killed off. There are so many different theories of how the dinosaurs dissapeared. There are many different ways to explain the extinction which took place 65 million years ago. One of the main reasons was the possibility of a sudden change in the climate or atmosphere. For instance, a nearby supernova explosion could heat up the upper atmosphere, disturbing the ozone layer. Disturbing the ozone layer could produce large ice clouds which would cool…

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    Chicxulub Impactor Theory

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    Stage One - The Chicxulub Impactor Origin Theory and how Asteroids enter the Earth's Atmosphere. Origin Theory The Chicxulub Impactor is an asteroid whose origin is unknown. A theory orchestrated by David Nesvorný, William F. Bottke and David Vokrouhlický however suggests that it is part of the Baptistina family of asteroids which was the result of a collision in the Asteroid Belt 160 million years ago (2). This theory is supported by the evidence of carbonaceous material that is present in…

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    The Mayan Indians: The Largest Indigenous Indian Group in North America Dating back as far as 50,000 B.C. and originally coming from Asia across the Bering Sea and Alaska to the Americas and the Yucatan peninsula during the last ice age, the Mayan Indians are an indigenous group of culturally diverse people. The ancient Mayans lived in present-day southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and western El Salvador having a population of eight million at the Pre-Columbian period, and at the…

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    Mayan Beliefs

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    As the people migrated to the Americas, it was long till kingdoms began to evolve. Around 600 BCE towns evolved to cities, and chieftains transformed into kings. One of the know culture’s and kingdom that control the Yucatan Peninsula was the Mayas. The Maya were a very religious culture, who in fact lived in the fear of the destructive nature of the gods. One thing that was important part of their religion was the death rituals. The Mayan people developed multiple traditions to commemorate the…

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    possible getaway would be Cancun, Mexico. Where swimming with dolphins, sailing, eating food you have never seen or eaten every in your life. Water sports, Plenty of gorgeous, drama free family resorts cater to folks who want to experience the tropical Yucatan climate. You can even go snorkeling To see Cancun most stunning underwater worlds having a tour of a underwater shipwreck. According to tripadvisor The beaches are about 6-7 miles on each beach in Cancun, Mexico. There is over about 340…

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    Ancient Mayan History

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    history preserved by archaic, mysterious, yet quintessential glyphs and records. Their culture deprived, their traditions burned, modern day scholars have very limited access to the ancient life of the Maya. When the Spaniards first came to the Yucatan in the 1600s, they were appalled by what they thought was "devil writing," therefore making the Maya synonymous to evil, sinister peoples. In an effort to "save" them, and save themselves, the explorers began forcibly converting hundreds of…

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