Teotihuacan is located northeast of México City. It is known for the vast size of pyramids one of them being the Pyramid of the Sun. Teotihuacan means “place were gods were born”. People first moved to that area around 500 BC. One structure that was vital in Teotihuacan was The Temple of the Feathered Serpent. It is also known as the Temple of Quetzalcoatl and is the third largest pyramid in Teotihuacán‚ México. This pyramid was mainly used for human and animal sacrifices due to the finding of victims
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Engineering the Templo Mayor in Tenochitlan is demanding our best effort and is uniting our powerful Aztec empire together. In a unique way‚ the gods have given my life foundational meaning because I was chosen by our community leaders as a worker in the first construction stage of the Templo Mayor: creating a stone carving articulating the fallen god Coyolxauhqui. My name is Chirico and I am a Mexica master of stone carving‚ and the year is 1469 during the rule of Motecuhzoma I. Through the collaboration
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IPILES CIVILIZATION At the beginning El salvador was known as Cuscatlan‚ pipil name. Their population of El Salvador was about 1‚000.00 people during the conquest by Spanish. People who called Pipiles‚ came from Mexican villages‚ they introduced the nahuat and pipil dialect‚ actually we can find pipil people they are located in Nahuizalco in Sonsonate‚ and a few villages. Indigenous had four important branches of Pipiles: § The Cuscatlecos who were the predominantand in the region‚ their
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The Aztec empire was growing and it had become a huge civilisation and no one wanted to attack the. The civilisation was always growing‚ but all the civilians in the civilisation could be in danger at all times. This civilisation was ruled by Moctezuma II and he was very powerful at this time. Even though Moctezuma’s civilisation was very powerful when Cortez attacked the huge civilisation Moctezuma was not prepared. When Cortez’s army was attacking the civilians of Moctezuma’s civilisation they
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Hernán Cortés was a military leader who seek to gain control on the land and in no doubt was looking for gold from the start. Cortés was becoming selfish by wanting more of the Aztecs gifts and in effect he took control. I find that Cortés was becoming selfish because despite the many gifts that Moctezuma and the natives gave him‚ he wanted more and didn’t care about the natives. Throughout the story “from The Second Letter”‚ Cortés is in awe by all the goods they have in the market which he states
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Having grown up in the Mixtec town of Oaxaca‚ Mexico‚ I had the pleasure of seeing a wide variety of plants and their uses‚ among them the Agave plant. The agave plant was as important to barbacoa as was the fungus Ustilago maydis to the dish Huitlacoche‚ only this plant had several uses beyond the kitchen. Using my own experiences‚ the vast resources online‚ and a quick call to my parents‚ I set out to learn more about the other aspects of this plant‚ such as it’s role in the everyday life of Indigenous
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2000 years before Europeans began to arrive in the New World‚ the last era of the pre-Columbian development began. North American cultures such as the Mississippian culture‚ the Hopewell Tradition‚ and the Hohokam culture experienced growth and environmental adaptation throughout this era. Major contributions and innovations of Native Americans have developed and been passed on through generations of ancestors. Originating in 700 A.D.‚ the Mississippian culture expanded through the Mississippi
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The Three Great American Cultures Central and South America is said to have been first discovered in the late fifteenth century; however‚ to say that the land before this time was unknown to all of humanity would be a fallacy and a great insult to the three great ancient cultures that ruled before their European conquest. The Aztecs‚ Incas‚ and Mayans were three distinct groups of people that thrived in the Americas prior to their “discovery” and all have a diversely rich background full of people
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Krystle DiCristofalo History and Literature: World Civilizations to 1600s Spring Semester 2013 Research Paper The Olmec and the Chavin: A Comparison The Olmec and Chavín civilizations were two cultures that existed before the Old World discovery of America. The two societies displayed many similar aspects‚ such as each being known as the “mother culture” of their respective regions‚ having similar artistic and architectural styles‚ and apparently alike religions; however‚ they differed from each
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Two of the biggest and greatest civilization in the Americas were the Aztecs and Incas. These two civilization were both said to be conquered by the Spanish‚ but it wasn’t just the Spanish who conquered them. These two civilizations both fell from a combination of a weak government‚ lack of technology‚ new disease introduced by the invaders‚ and not being prepared for the invaders. For many centuries the Aztec civilization revolved around a ideological‚ social‚ and political system in
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