Ancient Civilizations of the Americas Lecture 6:

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Ancient Civilizations of the Americas Lecture 6

• The Classic 300-900 AD

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Political Geography of the Classical Period
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• Puebla-Tlaxcala Plateau
• Florescence begins in Late Preclassic (300 BC).
• 25 Planned civic-ceremonial centers
• Earliest examples of tablud-tablero architecture
  
• Cholula Located on a high plain at 6,912 ft.
  beneath volcanos of Popocatépetl and Ixtacihuatl.
• Settlement commences 1700 BC with two villages.

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Great Pyramid of Tipanipa cover 45 acres/177
ft. high
Construction commences 100 BC
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Cholula cont. Excavated in 1968 by tunneling
Mural de los Bebedores Cholula falls 600 AD,
thereafter becomes the principle capital of the
Olmeca-Xicalanca Cacaxtla Settlement founded in
the Preclassic on a hilltop Period of
fluorescence 650-900 AD Said to be a capital of
the Olmeca-Xicalanca
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Xochicalco, Morelos