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- agriculture (corn based)
- domestication of animals (turkeys, dogs, local wild animals)
- cultural area
- people share religious ideas
- spiritual animal being (half human, half jaguar)
- deity feathered serpent
- Zippytotech (two hands, wears the skin of sacrifice victims)
- developed writing systems and numeral systems (Mayan writing system
and glyphs)
,- discovered the concept of zero - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Mesoamerica
- ceremonial center or ceremonial core to settlement
- orientation to the celestial bodies
- ritual paths, causeways or alignments which connect/organize the
ceremonial center
- open plaza bounded by pyramid temple platforms
- pyramid temple structures; superimposition of multiple construction levels
- ball courts - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Mesoamerica and North America architectural
concepts
- calendar wheel
- 20 day names paired with 13 day numbers
- ritual cycle in relation to the sun
- every 52 years you'll have the same day, same number, and same long
day designation
- cyclical time (repetitive)
- ran out on August 11, 2012 (people thought the world was going to end) -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔260 Day Ritual Calendar
,- chanting
- blood coming from hands
- "replenish the earth"
- needed to keep the cycles of the seasons going and fertility going
- Aztecs would launch wars specifically to capture and kill people -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Human Sacrifice
- several ways to play this game
- heavy latex ball (latex comes from the jungle)
- central field
- steps (smooth plaster)
- two teams on either side
- people could spectate
- ball players are elaborately dressed
- moving the ball had to do with moving the celestial bodies - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔I - Shaped Ball Courts
- oldest settlement
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, - not a lot of living spaces
- ritual platforms
- aligned together (connected to the ritual calendar)
- open spaces for gathering
- one big platform structure made out of mudbrick
- 100 ft tall man made mountain (would've been a multi step structure
leading to a temple at the top)
- along the path were altars used for ritual activity (face of a jaguar)
- burials along the axis (jaquar masks)
- cluster of sculptures (purposefully deformed people's heads) - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Olmec - La Venta
- urban center
- 125,000 people lived here
- 80%-90% lived in urban center
- Mexico city today
- apartment complexes