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Week 10

 

Read:
The Maya, Ch. 5, "Classic Splendor: the Late Period," pp. 130-150
Read: The Maya, Ch. 6, "The Terminal," pp. 151-164
Read:
Mexico, Ch. 7, "The Epiclassic Period," pp. 131-148
Post: MAforum
Work on: Case Study

 

 

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Tuesday 01 April 2008

Week 10 Day 19

 

Announcements

 
 

Features of the Day

Stages handout thumbnail.

 

Old Business

Mesoamerican Stages (Periods)
stages class handout

(read from bottom to top)

V. Spanish Conquest  
IV. (slides)
III. Classic (slides)
II. Mesoamerica Identifies Itself

(slides: Introduction, Early, Middle, Late)

 

I.

 

"Hunting / Gathering"

Archaic, or Incipient Agriculturalists

(slides)

 


Sites:


  Tepexpan (map) (slides)
     
     
Cuello (map) (slides)


Mesoamerican Stages (Periods)
stages class handout

(read from bottom to top)

David K. Jordan Version

V. Spanish Conquest Late Post-Classic Period (part 2)
A.D. 1400-Spanish Conquest

More detailed chronology of the Aztecs

Table of Aztec Monarchs
IV. Late Post-Classic Period (part 1)
A.D. 1200-1400
Early Post-Classic Period
A.D. 900-1200
III. Classic Late Classic Period
A.D. 600-900
Early Classic Period
Mexico: A.D. 150-650
Maya: A.D. 250-600
II. Late Formative (Pre-Classic)
300 B.C. - A.D. 300
Middle Formative (Pre-Classic)
900-300 B.C.
Early Formative (Pre-Classic)
1500/1800-900 B.C.
I. "Hunting / Gathering" Archaic (Incipient Farming)
7000± - 2000± B.C.

The Lithic, or Early Hunters
11,000± - 7,000± B.C.

    Geological Background

 


 

Assignments

Read:
The Maya, Ch. 5, "Classic Splendor: the Late Period," pp. 130-150
Read: The Maya, Ch. 6, "The Terminal," pp. 151-164
Read:
Mexico, Ch. 7, "The Epiclassic Period," pp. 131-148
Post: MAforum
Work on: Case Study
 

Notes

  • Thursday 27 March 2008: Reviewed "Terms/Concepts" and "Notes" from "Forests of the Maya", then viewed video ( 55 min., 1997, VC 3403)
  • Tuesday 01 April 2008: The Classic Period (slides) to #62 re writing, mathematics and astronomy
 
 
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Thursday 03 April 2008

Week 10 Day 20

nlt 03:40 Maya Lords of the Jungle
(60 min., 1981, VC 212)


 

Announcements

 

Features of the Day

nlt 03:40 video: Maya Lords of the Jungle
(60 min., 1981, VC 212)

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Maya stelae of
Copán, Honduras,
Frederick Catherwood, 1839

 

Stages handout thumbnail.

 

Old Business

  • The Classic Period #62 re writing, mathematics and astronomy....
    (slides)

Stages handout thumbnail.

 

Assignments

Read:
The Maya, Ch. 5, "Classic Splendor: the Late Period," pp. 130-150
Read: The Maya, Ch. 6, "The Terminal," pp. 151-164
Read:
Mexico, Ch. 7, "The Epiclassic Period," pp. 131-148
Post: MAforum
Work on: Case Study
 

Notes

  • Tuesday 01 April 2008: The Classic Period (slides) to #62 re writing, mathematics and astronomy
  • Thursday 03 April 2008: Reviewd "Terms/Concepts" and "Notes"for a viewed Maya Lords of the Jungle (60 min., 1981, VC 212)

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