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Mexico's official name is
United States of Mexico
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Mexico once owned
California, New Mexico, Arizonia, Colorado, Texas, Nevada, Utah
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Mexico is made up of
States
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Cholula- largest pyramid in the world
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When were humans first in Mexico
14000 years ago
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Where does the name "Mexico" come from?
Hernan Cortes' estate name in Spain
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When did corn get big enough to eat the cob/kernals
3500 years ago
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What is the name of the first civilization in Mesoamerica
Olmecs
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Belief of Olmecs
- Ball players were leaders,
- Caiman/crocodile as earth monster,
- Mouth of a earth monster = a cave
- Jade and green = beginnning of time
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What happened 3500 years ago
Villages and pyramids appear
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What happened around 850 AD
Highland Maya collapsed
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The first civilization in Mesoamerica
occurred in Veracruz, had cities, had pyramids
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Toltecs
- The Aztecs were mercenaries for them,
- They were Quetzalcoatl worshipers,
- They traveled all the way into SW US,
- Their capital was Tula
- They were NOT descendants of Monte Alban
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The cave and the person sitting in the cave. Combination symbolizes someone driving rights and powers from the underworld.
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The native peoples of Guatemala
Are called Maya
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These are Olmec City States
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Jaguar fighters fight for...
Blood, the offering to the rain god
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Most of Mesoamerica is
Mountainous
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The mountains, the terraces, pyramids, caves
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Tenochtitlan, Aztec capital, Mexico City today, Basin of Mexico
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- The answer is Venus (5 pointed star)
- Tlaloc- god of rain so not represent,
- Jaguars represent Quetzalcoatl,
- Blood
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True or false. The Quetzalcoatl cult ends at collapse of Monte Alban and Teotihuacan.
- False, it is present at tula, Chocucalo,...
- Earliest Quetzalcoatl is teotihuacan not Olmec
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Teotihuacan, because Aztec comes along the coast and stays at the coast with the one whole for sacrifices.
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A dog showed Quetzalcoatl the corn
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The 5th sun story
- A crippled god became the sun,
- A dog was torn apart to become the earth,
- Quetzalcoatl had 3 other siblings and was a child of the "Grandparents",
- Quetzalcoatl and his brother alternated making and destroying the first 4 suns,
- The gods sacrificed themselves at Teotihuacan
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Which is older? Chilies, corn, or villages
Chilies are 9,000 years ago
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They migrated into central Mexico from the Yucatan
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Which is older? Kingship, Chichen Itza, Mayan Empire
- Kingship- oldest,
- May empire- classic period,
- Chichen Itza- post classic
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Which is older? Tula, El Mirador, Teotihuacan, Tenochtitlan, Tikal
El Mirador
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Which is older? Caiman earth monster, Queztalcoatl
Caimen earth monster
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Which is older? long count, 260-day calender
260-day calender
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Pyramids were
- They are hotels for deities and spirits,
- They are sustenance mountains,
- They begin by 3000 years ago,
- The oldest ones are in along the Gulf of Mexico
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Fertility, Earth , and Rain are associated with
Jaguars and blood
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Quetzalcoatl emerges form a temple in Tula, the correct answer would be Teotihuacan
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Teotihuacan...
- Was multi-ethnic,
- Was prepared before building began,
- Was important 0AD to 650AD,
- Was NOT the first city state
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The largest pyramid in the world is found at
Cholula, 2nd largest is Teotihuacan
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Elements of Teotihuacan that the Aztecs incorporated
- Speech scrolls and feet image for travel,
- The eagle and the snake on a cactus,
- Visiting the oracle at Teotihuacan,
- Teotihuacan as the birthplace of their gods
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Monte Alban's pyramid has a church on top of it. The correct location is Cholula
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Teotihuacan was the first city state
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All of the above= beginning of 5th world, Q emerging from underworld, Q is Tlaloc
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Mayan, you can see the glyphs and that it is very serious
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Quetzalcoatl is depicted as
A jaguar
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Which city state never was abandoned? Cholula, Teotihuacan, Monte Alban, El Mirador, Tikal
Cholula, is still the ritual capital of Mexico
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According to the Aztecs
We are living in the 5th Sun
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Tribute by town to the Aztec
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- Aztec
- Cartoonish,
- Tortillas are central Mexico, Spanish introduced to central Mexico. Maya did make tortillas,
- Married women hair-do,
- Speech scroll Aztec,
- Use of written Spanish would be Aztec
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Rights to rule from underworld. Located in Tikal
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Where the heart of Copil landed in a swamp
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The chichimecs leave their Northen home
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Totonacs drying vanilla beans
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900 AD, by Toltecs in Tula
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Totonac rite of the Voladores
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Characteristics of first civilization
- Markets,
- Monumental architecture,
- Army,
- Writing,
- Numerical system,
- Social stratification,
- Centralized leadership,
- Cities
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