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    It’s organized into days‚ weeks‚ months‚ and years. Long before we had it figured out‚ many were struggling to get the correct days. They’ve used the sun‚ moon‚ stars‚ and also the planet Venus. We’ve used the Gregorian‚ Julian‚ Egyptian‚ and the Mayan calendar. Calendars require lots of studying of planets and scientific research‚ which takes up lots of time and critical thinking. Calendars also reflect our lives‚ culture‚ and religion. Celestial bodies rely upon the apparent motion of bodies

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    Historic Past of the Egyptian and Mayan Pyramids Can you imagine building something almost as big as eight football fields? Skilled laborers who built the Pyramids of Giza and the Mayan pyramids built them almost or that big! The Pyramids of Giza and the Mayan pyramids are fascinating insights upon history. These pyramids are attached to great tradition as well as an historic past. They had similar and different features. This is what made them so unique and special. As you will see‚ these breathe

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    The Aztec Art

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    HE7 L11 Lab Activity 11 (25 points) You have almost completed this lesson! You have learned about positive and negative behaviors toward the environment. Now it is time to develop a plan to put the positive behavior in place and decrease your negative behaviors. For the following lab‚ you will need to: 1. Discuss at least five new positive behaviors that you will participate in to improve the environment (make sure you list behaviors that are helpful to the environment – they may also be helpful

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    Women In The Aztec Era

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    pre-Columbian era was like any other culture because power had man. The woman lacked rights‚ was sometimes treated as an object. For example‚ in one of the most developed pre-Columbian civilizations‚ the Aztecs‚ a situation occurred with the rights of women with the Malinche. She was a girl of the Aztec culture‚ who after a clash between tribes was ceded as a slave‚ because that was the tradition of those times. Later‚ Malinche was again ceded as a slave‚ but this time to Hernan Cortes by the cacique

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    Aztec Mythology and Religion The Aztecs were a group of indigenous people who established an extensive empire in Mexico. An important part of Aztec culture revolved around their spiritual and mythological beliefs. They provided a rich and creative background for their religion. In one myth‚ the goddess Coatilcue becomes impregnated by putting a feather into her shirt‚ in another‚ two gods jumped into a fire and turned into suns. These myths established how creative the Aztecs could be in creating

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    People travel all the way across the world just to visit the great Mayan pyramids. This is what the Mayan mostly specialized in. They were great builders. This was also shown by their incredible stone calendar that allowed them to tell time by the position the sun hits upon the stone. The Mayan were a great civilization‚ but due to the excess exploitation of their land and resources‚ they collapse‚ therefore this was the reason why the Mayan couldn’t sustain a larger population‚ because their environmental

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    Aztec Creation Story

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    our earth? Well‚ the “Aztec Creation Story” describes how our planet Earth was “supposedly” created: two Aztec gods (Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl) transformed into serpents and attacked the hideous Earth Goddess‚ ripping her in two. The upper half of her body became the ground and the lower half became the heavens. There were two other very significant Aztec “gods” in the story that deeply affected the outcome of planet Earth: Tecuciztecatl and Nanahuatzin. After the two Aztec gods‚ Tezcatlipoca and

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    project ‚ lastly a big thanks goes out to my aunt for allowing me to use her computer and printer to complete this project. TOPIC A comparison between the Maya and Aztecs with special attention to technological advances- Were the Maya more advanced than the Aztec? Rationale During the 6 years of secondary school‚ I was captivated by History; more so the indigenous people that came before modern society‚ in particular

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    Mesa Verde or Machu Picchu Did the Mesa Verde or Machu Picchu have better civilization? The Mesa Verde had cliff dwellings‚ dams‚ and farming terraces and the Machu Picchu had a best preserved city. The two civilizations‚ Mesa Verde and Machu Picchu had good cliff dwellings‚ transportation‚ food‚ and resources. Mesa Verde has better cliff dwellings‚ an agricultural lifestyle‚ and baskets. The Mesa Verde people used sandals woven from yucca fiber. In the text‚ “ Artifact Gallery” it states

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    I think that the Mayan creation story‚ has many similarities to Judo-Christian versions of the creation story. For example the creation story that is included in the bible is set over a series of days. The Mayan creation story takes place over a series of days. One part that stood out to me as very similar was that the last day in both man was created. In the Mayan version it is referred to the birth of life and man is created. In the Judo-Christian version man is created when Adam and Eve were created

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