Wicca is a nature religion‚ its members do believe in the big Goddess and the big God as well as in the power of the nature. In their believes‚ everything belongs together and the whole life is a big running circle. Everything in nature and in life is worshipped. This religion itself is very young and does only exist since the first half of the 20th century‚ but the most of the believes‚ faiths and also rituals do base on very‚ very old traditions‚ that are much older than the popular big religions
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Name: ________________________________________________ Date: _____________ WHAP – Chapter 13 Big Picture & Margin Review Big Picture: 1. Assume for the moment that the Chinese had not ended their maritime voyages in 1433. How might the subsequent development of world history have been different? Is there value in asking this kind of “what if” or counterfactual question? Or is it an irrelevant waste of time? 2. How does this chapter distinguish among the various kinds of societies that comprised
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from the cacao bean‚ and it is churned into a froth and then cooled down. A few things we would like to learn about chocolate‚ however‚ are: 1) Who first created or discovered chocolate? The history of chocolate dates goes back to early Mesoamerican civilizations. As early as 1500 B.C.‚ the Olmec Indians were growing cacao beans. The Mayans and Aztecs also grew cacao and develop chocolate drinks. Christopher Columbus can claim the credit for being the first person to bring cacao beans to Europe
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The Mayan Civilization was essentially a Mesoamerican civilization that was developed by the then Maya people. The civilization was most outstandingly noted for the Mayan hieroglyphic script as well as its architecture‚ art and fully developed writing system of pre-Columbian Americas. It is also good to note that the Maya developed in a place that encompasses Belize‚ all of Guatemala and southeastern Mexico. Some western parts of Honduras and El Salvador were also part of the plan (Chase et al
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The Aztecs‚ a flourishing mesoamérican Empire‚ were elite masters of war that would take on anyone that dared challenge them. If they were not at battle‚ they would be celebrating their many gods with various festivals and feasts. Compared to other civilizations during their time‚ like the Holy Roman empire‚ the Aztecs were more capable to stand their ground. where they would struggle for superiority even within their own lands. The Holy Roman Empire’s success‚ measured next to the Aztecs‚ is miniscule
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Teotihuacan is one of the world’s oldest and most impressive archaeological sites. The wealth of Teotihuacan was based largely on the amount they had on the trade of obsidian‚ a coarse green glass occurring in volcanic rock. In common with the other Mesoamerican civilizations‚ the Maya had measured the length of the solar year to a high degree of accuracy. They produced extremely accurate astronomical observations; their charts of the movements of the moon and planets were used to predict eclipses and
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El Salvador. The capital of the Mayan empire was Tikal‚ located in Mexico. The Maya had an interesting economy; they valued jade and serpentine more than anything else. They did not use money‚ they traded goods instead. They traded with other Mesoamerican cultures. Farmers traded coco by traveling long distances with a basket/sack strapped to their back. Merchants traveled in hopes of employing porters‚ because there were no carts‚ pack animals or horses. Their religion had many gods (polytheism)
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Tokyo. She received her BA from the University of Illinois at Chicago‚ and her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1986. | 3.) Anne MacKaye Chapman | 1922 – June 12‚ 2010 | A Franco-American ethnologist. She studied the Mesoamerican civilizations and especially the Tolupan (Jicaque) people of Honduras. She had visited Magallanes and Tierra del Fuego many times since 1965 to study the Fuegian peoples in depth‚ especially the Selk’nam and Yahgan. | 4.) Anne L. Grauer‚ Ph
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reverence to specific Aztec gods or to represent an Aztec tribe. In addition to the pottery made of clay‚ the Aztecs showed their deep religion through a variety of sculptures carved out of stone. In the 16th century‚ two cultures mixed: the native Mesoamerican cultures and the Spanish. This phenomenon lasted from the fall of the Aztec empire‚ in 1521‚ to the end of the Spanish domination‚ in 1821. Colorfully embroidered cotton garments‚ cotton or wool shawls and outer garments‚ and colorful baskets and
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the miners would use to excavate‚ these “tacos” were pieces of paper that they would wrap around gunpowder and insert them in carved holes in the rock face. Tortillas however‚ date back thousands of years‚ corn tortillas were the bread of the Mesoamericans‚ apart than providing sustenance‚ they were torn into pieces and use as utensils to scoop other kinds of food. Depending on the filling most tacos are made with grilled or steamed soft tortillas. There are different types of tortilla depending
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