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Great Cultures Of Mesoamerca. - Coggle Diagram
Great Cultures Of Mesoamerca.
Common Characteristics.
-They based their subsistence on agriculture.
-They usually made human sacrifices to these Gods.
-Similar techniques in ceramics, metallurgy, weaving and father art.
-Gods were represented as mythological beings, a misxture of man and animal or of different animals.
-Society was divided into very marked social classes.
-Its rulers proclaimed themselves intermediares with the Gods or directly as sons of Good.
Zapotecas
-Buildings, stadiums for ball games.
-Monte Alban main center.
Olmecs, the first to form states.
Calendar (365 days divided into 18 months of 20 days plus five days at the end of the year ).
-First Mesoamercan pyramid Monumental head carved in stone.
-First civilizatión (1200 B.C)
-Mexican coast.
Mayas
-In Yucatan, other Mayan cities emerged, such as Chichen Itza.
-Invented the zero and writing with logograms.
-Classic Period (around 300 A.C: Maya city-states expanded to El Salvador: new cities were created: Quirigua, Palenque, Copan, etc
-Mayan collapse ocurred: cities were abandonded due to a prolonged drought of corn cultivation.
-Highest pyramid in America (city el Mirador)
Mexicas or aztecs.
-Located at the current Mexico city Different civilizations:
Theotihuacan (300 B.C.- 950 A.C.)
Mayas (600 B.C)
-Expanded to Peten (Guatemala and Belize).
-South and southeast of Mexico.
Aztecs
-Moctezuma.
-The capital had around 250,000 inhabitants.
-The Aztecan empire expansión started in 1427 with the Triple Alliance. Texcoco, Tlacopan and Mexico-Tenochtitlan.
3) Rulers dynasty: Dominated the Mexico valley and founded its capital Tenochtitlan.(1325)
-Ended with the arrival of the Spanish.
2.Tolecas (950 A.C..1200 A.C.-) Capital Tula.