Pre-Colombian- The Americas

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Pre-Colombian- The Americas

• Before Columbus
• Before Spanish conquest
• Olmec, Teotihuacán,
• Mayan, Anasazi,
• Mississippian, Aztec, Inca
• Native America
• Huge city-states
• Craftsmanship
• Architecture, pyramids
• Olmecs 1st organized
• North Amer pueblos
• Great Serpent Mound, Ohio

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Pre-Colombian- The Americas

• Before Columbus
• Before Spanish conquest
• Olmec, Teotihuacán,
• Mayan, Anasazi,
• Mississippian, Aztec, Inca
• Native America
• Huge city-states
• Craftsmanship
• Architecture, pyramids
• Olmecs 1st organized
• North Amer pueblos
• Great Serpent Mound, Ohio

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14-1 Colossal head, Olmec, La Venta, Mexico,
900400 BCE. Basalt, 94 high. Museo-Parque La
Venta, Villahermosa.
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• 14-4 Teotihuacán
• Place of the Gods
• c.500 CE, Mexico
• Large metropolis
• Major monuments,
• c.100 CE
• Oriented to stars
• Pyramid of the Moon,
• Sun
• Avenue of the Dead
• Religious center
• Olmecs, Aztecs

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14-11 Presentation of captives to Lord Chan
Muwan, Maya, Room 2, Structure 1, Bonampak,
Mexico, ca. 790 CE. Mural, approx. 17 X 15
watercolor copy by Antonio Tejeda. Peabody
Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge.
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• 14-28 Serpend Mound, Mississipian, Ohio, c.1070
  CE
• Earth mound 1200 ft long
• Mississippian people constructed this effigy
  mound
• Mounds built in forms of birds or animals
• Mouth upper right, coiled tail left
• Snakes important to iconography
• The earth, fertility of crops

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• 30-5 Machu Picchu, Inka, Peru, 15c CE
• Originally private estate of Inka ruler
• 9000 ft above sea level
• Architecture fitted right into mountains
• Large stones echo shape of mountain
• 3 sections agricultural, urban, religious

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• 33-81
• Diego Rivera
• Ancient Mexico
• Fresco mural, 1935
• At National Palace
• Mexico City
• Socialist
• Scenes of Mex history
• Conflicts between idigenous people and
• Spanish conquerers