Transcript Aztec Sun stone

Assignment
Meso-America..
Learning target: You will be able
to use Meso-American Primary
sources to create powerful
questions about each of the
three different cultures.
DIRECTIONS……..
Step one
• Using your Blooms word bank you and your partner
will create 3 questions for each of the slides presented.
These questions need to represent a powerful question
about the culture. (No use of Recall based questions.
Only level 2-6 may be use.
Step two
• Using your powerful questions as a guide. You then will
decide on which culture you would like to investigate
further. Critiquing the primary source for and then
formulating an opinion on why this primary source is a
strong representation the culture it is from.
Mayan Religious /Social (PS)
MAYAN TEMPLE OF KUKULCAN
“EL CASTILLO”
EL CASTILLO'S DESIGN IS THOUGHT TO RELATE TO THE MAYAN CALENDAR. EACH OF THE FOUR FACES
INCORPORATES A BROAD, STEEP STAIRCASE CONSISTING OF 91 STEPS THAT ASCENDS TO THE TOP
PLATFORM. COUNTING THE TOP PLATFORM AS AN ADDITIONAL STEP GIVES A TOTAL OF 365 STEPS
BURIAL MASK OF PASCAL THE GREAT FOUND
IN THE MAYAN CITY OF PALENQUE
POLITICAL /RELIGIOUS (PS)
Aztec Sun stone…{social/religious (PS)}
The calendar consisted of a 365 day calendar cycle and a 260 day ritual cycle. These two cycles together
formed a 52 year "century", sometimes called the "Calendar Round". The calendared year began with the
first appearance of the Pleiades asterism in the east immediately before the dawn light.
Codex Mendoza Social / political / religious (PS)
The Codex Mendoza is a pictorial document, with Spanish annotations and
commentary, composed circa 1541. It is divided into three sections: a history of
each Aztec ruler and their conquests; a list of the tribute paid by each tributary
province; and a general description of daily Aztec life.
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Aztec Eagle and Jaguar warriors (Military orders)
Founding of the Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan (by Mexcia peoples)
Montezuma II headdress {political(PS)}
Made of gold, quetzal feathers, jade, and beads.
INCAN ICE
MUMMIES{RELIGIOUS(PS)}
Machu Picchu Incan city in the sky.
{religious and political(PS)}
Elevation 8,000 feet
Codex? (Economic(Ps)
Florentine Codex of Small pox (?)
Drawing accompanying text in Book XII of the 16th-century Florentine Codex (compiled 1540–
1585), showing Nahuas of conquest-era central Mexico suffering from smallpox.