121 Exam 2 Study Guide Outline‚ Part II Dr. Grofe I. San Bartolo A. Pre-‐Classic Maya city discovered in 2001 – Northeast of Tikal. 1. Bill Saturno‚ working for Corpus Project a. Looking for sites with Maya writing b. Led by former looters to San Bartolo c. Got lost on the
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enough to discourage and break a person down. Well‚ Mrs. Maya Angelou overcame it all. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings has many lessons of overcoming adversities in many illustrations. This novel is an auto biography of the author and poet Maya Angelou. It teaches how to deal with abandonment by looking to others‚ molestation by speaking out‚ racism and sexism by standing for and believing in your self and your self worth. To begin the novel Maya and her brother‚ Bailey‚ are abandoned by their parents
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Mayan people to Catholicism‚ so he burned and killed all things that worshiped other gods‚ including the glyphs. 6.-What is the Code of Dresden? The most exquisite Maya Book that was one of the three books that was discovered in the cities of Madrid Paris and Mexico. 7.-What sound the numbers of Thompson? Classification system for the Maya signs. What was its theory on the Mayan hieroglyphics? It was only about astronomy but other than that the code meant nothing. Mayan are peaceful people. In accordance
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elements. The Maya used this sophisticated style to carve symbols into stone. The most common place for writing was the perishable books they made from bark paper‚ coated with lime to make a fresh white surface. These books were screen-folded and bound with wood and deer hide. They were referred to as codices‚ however only four remain today because of their perishable nature and Spanish book burning. The Maya writing system was one of the greatest achievements of their civilization. Maya writing
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The Maya were a great Mesoamerican civilization developed by the Maya people. They had great architecture‚ beautiful artwork‚ and high sciences. The areas it encompased were Southern Mexico‚ the Yucatan Peninsula‚ Guatemala‚ Belize‚ Northern Honduras‚ and El Salvador. The Classic period is generally defined as when the Maya were erecting sculpted statues with Long Count dates‚ a non-repeating vigesimal and base-18 calendar. The Classic shifted and “collapsed”‚ and the Postclassic was born. The Postclassic
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similarities/differences between the initial Spanish colonization of the Caribbean and the Yucatan. In your discussion include the initial reaction of the Taino and Maya to the presence of the Spanish and the rational for the Spanish conquest. The Spanish colonization of the Caribbean and Yucatan was the campaign of the Spanish conquistadores against Postclassical Maya stares and polities specifically on the central Yucatan Peninsula. The Spanish conquest of Caribbean and Yucatan which began in the early 16th century
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In “Graduation‚” Maya Angelou‚ an African American writer‚ traces her maturation during her eighth grade graduation by conveying her feelings and emotions‚ through the persona of Marguerite Johnson. Not only is she graduating from eighth grade‚ but she is also graduating from naiveté and moving onto maturity. With an expressive voice‚ Angelou includes imagery‚ through the use of similes and colors‚ as well as juxtaposition in her narrative essay to illustrate the racial inequality between the Negroes
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Inca‚ and the Maya both are very different and the same in so many different ways! It’s just so fascinating how two societies from different times differ but at the same time be the same. Today we will be looking at two three components‚ those being beliefs‚ farming‚ and homes. let’s begin! The Inca and Maya don’t live today‚ they didn’t even live during the same time that being Inca lived during the 1500s and the Maya were 2600 B.C. but did the time effect how they live? So like I Said we will be
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Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ written by the famous and inspiring Maya Angelou. In the beginning of‚ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ Marguerite Annie Johnson or Maya Angelou is a precocious girl and she suffered from the typical traumas associated with being a black girl in America‚ as many black girls have. But she also struggled from the traumas of displacement. Her parents gave up on their marriage‚ and soon after‚ they sent away Maya and Bailey‚ her older brother by one year. The three and four
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