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MAYAN CALENDAR The Mayan civilization covered much of Central America and southern Mexico. The Maya built splendid temples and pyramids, and developed a complicated calendar.TRANSCRIPT
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MAYA & TOLTEC
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YUCATAN• On the Yucatan Peninsula east of Teotihuacán, the highly sophisticated Mayan civilization flourished between 300 to 900 CE.
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MAYAN CALENDAR• The Mayan civilization covered much of Central America
and southern Mexico.• The Maya built splendid temples and pyramids, and
developed a complicated calendar.
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TIKAL• Mayan cities were built around a central pyramid
topped with a temple to the gods.• Nearby were temples, palaces, and a sacred ball
court.• Urban centers such as Tikal may have had a
100,000 inhabitants.
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MAYAN CIVILIZATION• Mayan civilization was composed of city-states governed
by a hereditary ruling class.• The states warred on each other.• Captured nobles and war leaders were used for human
sacrifice.• Other war captives were enslaved.
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MAYAN SOCIETY• Mayan rulers claimed to be descended from the
gods.• Mayan society also had townspeople who were
artisans, officials, and merchants.• Most Mayans were farmers, however.• Labor divided along traditional gender lines.
A detail from a sacred Maya mural at San Bartolo — the earliest known Maya painting, depicting the birth of the cosmos and the divine right of a king
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ITZAMNA• The belief that all life is in the hands of divine
powers was crucial to Mayan civilization.• Itzamna was the supreme god, and some gods,
like the jaguar god of the night were evil.
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HUMAN SACRIFICE• Like other ancient peoples in Central America,
one way the Maya appeased the gods was through human sacrifice.
• Human sacrifice was also performed on certain ceremonial occasions.
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MAYAN BALL COURTS• The walls of the ball courts were covered with
images of war and sacrifice.• The exact rules of the game that was played are
unknown, but we do know that small teams tried to send a ball through a hoop using their hips.
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DEADLY GAME• The game had religious meaning because the
court symbolized the world, and the ball represented the sun and the moon.
• The defeated team was sacrificed.
MAYAN BALL COURT
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HIEROGLYPHS• The Mayans created a writing system using
hieroglyphs, or pictures.• Unfortunately, the Spaniards assumed the
writings were evil because they were not Christian, and they destroyed many Mayan books, a pattern the Spanish would repeat throughout their conquest in the Americas.
MAYAN STELLE
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THE LONG COUNT• The long count was based on the belief in cycles of creation
and destruction.• The Maya believed our present world was created in 3114
BCE and would end on December 23, 2012 CE. • Many other hieroglyphs recorded important events in
Mayan history, especially events in the lives of Mayan rulers.
MAYA 260 DAY CALENDAR
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MAYA CALENDAR• Priests used a sacred calendar of 260 days to
foretell the future and know the omens associated with each day.
• Only priests could read and use the calendar.
MAYA SUNSTONE CALENDAR
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THE TOLTEC
TOLTEC STAR PRINCESS
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TOLTEC WARRIORS• The Toltec were a fierce and warlike people who
conquered the Mayan lands of Guatemala and northern Yucatan.
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CHICHEN ITZA• The Toltec's built great palaces a pyramids,
controlling the upper Yucatan Peninsula from Chichen Itza.
• They came to power around 900 CE and declined around 1200 CE.
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THE AZTECS
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AZTEC HISTORY• Sometime during the 12th century CE, the Aztec
began a long migration to the Valley of Mexico.• They established their capital at Tenochtitlan on
an island in the middle of Take Texcoco, where Mexico City is today.
Tenochtitlan
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HUITZILOPOCHTLI• According to legend, the Aztec believed that a
sign would come from the god of war and of the sun, Huitzilopochtli, telling them where to settle.
GOD OF SUN GOD OF WAR
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LAKE TEXCOCO• In 1325 they were driven into the swamps and
islands of Lake Texcoco, where they saw an eagle standing on a cactus growing out of a rock, the sign that had been foretold.
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TENOCHTITLAN• They built a magnificent city of temples, other
public buildings, and roadways linking the islands and mainland.
TENOCHTITLAN AT TIME OF CONQUEST
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AZTEC EMPIRE BUILDING• The Aztec Kingdom was a collection of semi-
independent territories governed by lords.• The Aztec ruler supported the lords in return for
tribute—goods or money paid by conquered people to their conqueror.
AZTEC WAR LORDS PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE KING
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VALLEY OF MEXICO• By 1500 up to 4 million Aztecs lived in the Valley
of Mexico and its environs.• Power was in the hands of the god-king, who
claimed descent from the gods.
ANCIENT AZTEC RUINS—VALLEY OF MEXICO
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AZTEC SOCIETY• The Aztec population consisted of commoners, indentured
servants, and slaves, who were war captives and worked in the houses of the wealthy.
• Most people were commoners and farmers.• Merchants also lived in cities.
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GENDER DIVISION• Women were not equal to men, but could inherit
property and enter into contracts, something not often allowed in other world cultures of the time.
• They were also allowed to be priestesses.
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QUETZACOATL• Quetzalcoatl was the feathered serpent god.• According to Aztec tradition, he left his homeland
and vowed to return in triumph.• This became part of a legend about a prince
whose return from exile would be preceded by a sign of an arrow through a sapling.
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SPANISH CONQUISTADORS• When the Aztec saw the Spanish with a cross n
their breastplates, they mistook the Spanish for Quetzalcoatl's representatives because the cross looked like the sign they had been waiting for.
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AZTEC RELIGION• Aztec religion was based on the belief in an
unending struggle between the forces of good and evil, which led to the creation and destruction of a series of worlds.
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HUMAN SACRIFICE• Aztec religion practiced human sacrifice to
postpone the day of destruction of their world, the 5th world.
• A massive pyramid at the center of the capital was topped with shrines to the gods and an altar for human sacrifice.
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UNREST IN TENOCHTITLAN• The lords in the eastern provinces wanted
greater independence from the Aztec king.• Areas that had not been conquered wanted to
remain free.
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HERNAN CORTES• In 1519 a Spanish force under the command of
Hernan Cortes marched to Tenochtitlan.• He had only 550 soldiers and 16 horses, but he
made allies with the city-states that had tired of Aztec rule.
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MONTEZUMA• Cortes was greeted warmly by the Aztec king,
Montezuma, who believed his visitor represented Quetzalcoatl.
• Montezuma offered gifts of gold and a palace to use.
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AZTEC REVOLT• Tensions arose between the Aztec and Spanish.• In 1520 the local population revolted and drove
the Spaniards from the city, killing many.
AZTEC RECORDED STORY OF SPANISH CONQUEST
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DISEASE• Many Aztec also soon died from European
diseases, such as smallpox and diphtheria.• They had no immunity to European bacteria and
viruses.
AZTEC RECORDED HISTORY OF SMALLPOX DISEASE
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SPANISH CONQUEST• Cortes received troops from his local allies, and
in 4 months the city surrendered to his forces.• The use of gunpowder also aided the Spanish
considerably in their battles with the Aztec.• They leveled the Aztec buildings and used the
stones to construct government buildings and churches.