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Mesoamerica - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- agriculture (corn based)
- domestication of animals (turkeys, dogs, local wild animals)
- cultural area
- people share religious ideas
- spiritual animal being (half human, half jaguar)
- deity feathered serpent
- Zippytotech (two hands, wears the skin of sacrifice victims)
,- developed writing systems and numeral systems (Mayan writing system
and glyphs)
- discovered the concept of zero
Mesoamerica and North America architectural concepts - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-
ceremonial center or ceremonial core to settlement
- orientation to the celestial bodies
- ritual paths, causeways or alignments which connect/organize the
ceremonial center
- open plaza bounded by pyramid temple platforms
- pyramid temple structures; superimposition of multiple construction levels
- ball courts
260 Day Ritual Calendar - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- calendar wheel
- 20 day names paired with 13 day numbers
- ritual cycle in relation to the sun
- every 52 years you'll have the same day, same number, and same long
day designation
- cyclical time (repetitive)
,- ran out on August 11, 2012 (people thought the world was going to end)
Human Sacrifice - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- chanting
- blood coming from hands
- "replenish the earth"
- needed to keep the cycles of the seasons going and fertility going
- Aztecs would launch wars specifically to capture and kill people
I - Shaped Ball Courts - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- several ways to play this game
- heavy latex ball (latex comes from the jungle)
- central field
- steps (smooth plaster)
- two teams on either side
- people could spectate
- ball players are elaborately dressed
- moving the ball had to do with moving the celestial bodies
Olmec - La Venta - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- oldest settlement
- not a lot of living spaces
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, - ritual platforms
- aligned together (connected to the ritual calendar)
- open spaces for gathering
- one big platform structure made out of mudbrick
- 100 ft tall man made mountain (would've been a multi step structure
leading to a temple at the top)
- along the path were altars used for ritual activity (face of a jaguar)
- burials along the axis (jaquar masks)
- cluster of sculptures (purposefully deformed people's heads)
Teotihuacan - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- urban center
- 125,000 people lived here
- 80%-90% lived in urban center
- Mexico city today
- apartment complexes
- ritual structures (center of the city)
- planned city