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Copan Jade

Copán Jade,
Honduras
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Week 09

Comparitive Analysis:
Classic Life

 

Read:
 The Maya, Ch. 4, "Classic Splendor: the Early Period," pp. 88-101
Read: The Maya, Ch. 5, "Classic Splendor: the Late Period," pp. 102-129 [Tikál]
Post: MAforum
Work on: Case Study

 

Maya stelae of Copán, Honduras, Frederick Catherwood, 1839

Maya stelae
Copán, Honduras
 
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Week 09 Day 17

Tuesday 3 November 2009



nlt 2:10 Out of the Past: "Artisans and Traders"
(60 min., 1997, VC 2130)

 

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nlt 2:10 video:

Out of the Past: "Artisans and Traders"
(60 min., 1997, VC 2130)


Maya stelae of Copán, Honduras, Frederick Catherwood, 1839

Maya stelae
Copán, Honduras

A chief feature of the Mesoamerican Class is Urbanism/Urbanization.

That concentrates people, which allows markets to develop with sufficient population to allow specialization of labor.

Today's video reviews those aspects of urbanization from a comparative perspective.
   

Old Business

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Assignments

Read:
 The Maya, Ch. 4, "Classic Splendor: the Early Period," pp. 88-101
Read: The Maya, Ch. 5, "Classic Splendor: the Late Period," pp. 102-129 [Tikál]
Post: MAforum
Work on: Case Study
   

Notes

 
 
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Week 09 Day 18

Thursday 5 November 2009

nlt 2:15 "Forests of the Maya"
55 min., 1997, VC 3403

 

Announcements
 

Features of the Day

(Old Business next week)

nlt 2:15 video:

"Forests of the Maya"
episode 2 of the Spirits of the Jaguar series
(55 min., 1997, VC 3403 -- episode 2)

Jaguar

 

Related: In Search of the Jaguar (National Geographic) -- on-line at snagfilms.com

 
 

Old Business

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Assignments

Read:
 The Maya, Ch. 4, "Classic Splendor: the Early Period," pp. 88-101
Read: The Maya, Ch. 5, "Classic Splendor: the Late Period," pp. 102-129 [Tikál]
Post: MAforum
Work on: Case Study
 

Notes

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