Transcript Pre-Colombian- The Americas

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
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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Colossal head,
Olmec, La
Venta, Mexico,
900–400 BCE.
Basalt, 9’4”
high. MuseoParque 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
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.
• 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
• 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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Diego Rivera
Ancient Mexico
Fresco mural, 1935
At National Palace
Mexico City
Socialist
Scenes of Mex
history
• Conflicts between
idigenous people and
• Spanish conquerers