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Arch100 Module 12 Maya & Aztacs - Coggle Diagram
Arch100 Module 12
Maya & Aztacs
A - Maya
Myth, Art, Writing
Religion - Popol Vuh
Document by Spanish Friars
Hero Twins
Ball players, defeat the lord of underworld
Arts of sacrifice & reanimation
Popol Vuh on Maya ceramics and other aris objects
Cosmic Tree
Sky, Middle world & under world
Crocodile
Stelae
Astronomy
Associate different parts of the sky with different mythic beings
Art
Murals
Early Classic
gods & mythical scenes
Bonampak
Tample of the Murals
Writing
Developed during middle classic
Scripts written in Cholan
mix of phonograshs and glyphs
Glyphs are phonetically based
500 signs
written on various objects
However most on perishable paper - codex
Math
1 dot for 1, 1 bar for 5
a variable sign for 0
base 20 system
Calendar
260 day ritual calendar
365 day solar calendar
mixed to 52 year cycle
Baktun, Katun, Tun, Winal, Kin
B - Maya cities & rulers
Kaminaljuyu (KJ)
early pre-classic center
platform mounds
ceremonial centre
El Mirador
largest preclassic center
temple pyramids and complexes
Danta Complex
City planned from beginning
Tikal
largets certer of early classic
Entrada of AD378
a group of five retrospective stelae
Uaxactun
War with Tikal
military conquest
First Caiman
Stormy Sky
Kan Chitam
C - Maya Cities
Calakmul
Snake Kings
Dynastic vases
Ruler - Sky Witness
Caracol
Caracol-Tika Event
Hiatus Period
Offering change
Tikal Re-emerges
Ah Cacao
Lord Chocolate
Temple I & II
Temple II
Temple of Masks
Monument of Lady Lachan
Lady of twelve Macaw
Temple I
victory over Calakmul
funerary temple of Jasaw Chan Kawiil I
Roof comb
D - Maya Cities
Copan
ball court
Hieroglyphic Stairway
Altar Q - dynastic sequence
Rosalila structure
Palenque
Temple of inscriptions
ruler: Pakal
Burial Mask
Pakal's Sarcophagus
E - Maya Collapse
Last Monument from Tonina
AD 909
Construction ceases
Monuments cease to apear
Population lost
Northern Lowlands begin to fliourish
Toltecs & Tula
Military nature
carving of eagles and jaguars
skull rack
Chichen Itza
Architecture
Mixture iof Mexican and Maya styles
Rattlesnake pillars, Chacmool, temple of warriors
Aztecs
Mexica
Legends
Island in the lake of Texcoco
eagle and snake
Calendar
similar to Maya, no long count
Human Sacrifice
captured soilders
Ritual cannibalism
dedicated to god of war
Skull rack
Tenochtitian
Built out onto lake Texcoco
Templo Mayor
Aztec Expansion
Montezuma I
triple alliance
construction of major work
Pochteca
organized mechants
Montezuma II