Imagine you were a young Aztec person trying to decide whether to stick with your religion or convert to christianity. The Aztec and spanish had many differences and similarities in the way that they practiced religion. Both religions had different ways that they celebrated gods sacrifice and religious leaders. One of the similarities that the Aztec and spanish had was that they both had gods. The Aztec had many gods and the spanish had one god. Huitzilopochtli‚ the Aztecs favorite god was the one
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Mexico has a distinguished culture of traditions‚ which have been in existence for more than three thousand years. As a direct consequence of colonisation‚ over time Mexico’s rich past of lost civilisations has amalgamated with European traditions and religion. In particular‚ distinct connections can be made between modern Mexican and pre-Hispanic Mayan death customs. As a consequence of this historical cycle of colonialism and domination‚ incredibly unique traditions are observable in Mexico today;
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Social Classes Of the Aztec Empire Before Spanish conquistadors conquered Central and South America the Aztec empire and the Mayan empire were in control. Both empires ruled at different times but both built massive temples to please their gods‚ kings and also used for astronomy. Unlike the Mayans who used more of a political structure‚ the Aztec empire was united as one and led by one person. The Mayan empire consisted of many different city states that only linked through trade‚ political alliances
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AEGEAN ART Discuss two possible theories on how Aegean civilization perished. Natural Disaster A fact that was attributed by some scholars. Many explanations attribute the fall of the Mycenaean civilization and the Bronze Age collapse to climatic or environmental catastrophe. Dorian Invasion Dorian‚ any member of a major division of the ancient Greek people‚ distinguished by a well-marked dialect and by their subdivision. The Dorian people are traditionally acknowledged as the conquerors of
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Contribution of Babylonians in Science and Technology Babylonia was an ancient cultural region in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq)‚ withBabylon as its capital. Babylonia emerged when Hammurabi (fl. ca. 1696 – 1654 BC‚ short chronology) created an empire out of the territories of the former Akkadian Empire. Babylonia adopted the written Semitic Akkadian language for official use‚ and retained the Sumerian languagefor religious use‚ which by that time was no longer a spoken language
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The first great civilization on mainland Greece actually bloomed in the demise of the Minoan Civilisation. The Mycenaean Civilisation (1900 – 1100 BC) is also known as the Achaean Civilisation. This is due to the Indo-European migrants‚ who not only settled on mainland Greece but also adapted to the Minoan way of living. Independent city-states such as Pylos‚ Corinth and of course Mycenae which was the most powerful of them all‚ was a characteristic of the Mycenaean Civilisation. Mycenae was
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Main components of every civilization: 1. government and laws 2. formal religion 3. language 4. agriculture (irrigation‚ domestication of plants‚ etc) 5. specialized skills (pottery‚ clothing‚ etc) 6. trade (to acquire what you do not have and cannot make‚ but need) 7. economic system (bartering or currency‚ etc). Factors that give rise to civilization: A. Geographical location 1. All four of the major centers of early civilization (were China‚ India‚ Mesopotamia‚ and Mesoamerica) arose
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Paul Almeida Mr. Myers World Cultures 11 4‚ December 2009 Aztec Culture The Aztec culture began around 1395 and sadly end sometime around 1521. Central Mexico was the area the Aztec culture lived and survived for so many years. The language they spoke was Nahuatl. The word “Aztec” is mainly exclusively for the people of Tenochtitlan. The Aztecs once lived around eroded volcanic peaks and dissected mountain ranges. Their god‚ Huitzilopochtli‚ commanded them on a journey to the south and they
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their own "civilization" on unfamiliar cultures. For example‚ when The United Kingdom forced west Africa to modernize. Another example is when Hitler forced many people to follow his religion or way of thinking. And lastly how settlers imposed their forces on Native Americans in order to have them leave their homeland. The United Kingdom had colonised some part of Africa‚ mostly the west side. Some of the countries were Ghana and Nigeria. The way they imposed their own "civilization" was by trying
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* 2. The Land Located in Europe in the A egean Sea * The first great civilization in Greece and Crete3. Brief History of Greece Around 1400It lasted roughly from 2000 BCE until 1400 BCE. was the Minoan. BCE‚ the Mycenaean civilization supplanted the Minoan‚ and dominated Greece until about 1100 BCE‚ when barbarians known as Durians invaded. * 4. EXTEND EARLY BEGINING OF POLIS * 490 750-550 Age of Colonization c. 700 Homer 5. Greek Polis Time Line 479 Spartans 480 Xerxes invades
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