ruins of the earliest known pre-Columbian civilization. They also want to know the history behind them. To satisfy their interests‚ you must custom develop a tour just for them. You will call it "The Legacies of the Olmec‚ Zapotec‚ and Chavín". Describe each of the 3 artifacts below: Describe this artifact: 1. The name of the civilization that created it (Olmec‚ Zapotec‚ Chavín) ? 2. An explanation of the evidence that the artifact belongs to that civilization 3. A description of the characteristics
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Civilization- A civilization is any complex society with a social hierarchy‚ form of communication‚ separation from the natural environment‚ and control over the natural environment. Every civilization has depended on agriculture to be able to maintain itself at a minimum. Civilizations are much more politically advanced than other societies‚ usually having certain social classes. Usually the ruling class‚ the class that controls the supplies and exercises its will as a government or a bureaucracy
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between Egypt and Sumer Civilizations Introduction Ancient civilizations arose all over the world. They had different kind of cultures. Two of the greatest civilizations that will be elaborated on this assignment are the Egypt Civilization and the Sumerian Civilization. Both civilizations had similarities‚ but also had their differences just like everything in life. They had similar beliefs on gods controlling everything in their lives. Also‚ these two civilizations were the first ones to make
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Benjamin Palmer ENG Comp. II April 25‚ 2011 Pivot Point Graduation. A memorable turning point in life. An important turning point for Maya Angelou the author of Graduation. Angelou does an extraordinary job at taking her readers through her graduation with a feeling of being present. As a young black girl in Arkansas around the 1940s‚ her graduation was a turning point. It defiantly opened her eyes to a realization that was needed to help her through life. With careful word choice‚ Angelou leads
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aspects as that of the Western Judeo Civilizations. There are numerous transactional meanings between the biblical stance and the creation story of the Quiché. Many narratives have been borrowed from the bible and reconstituted back into the five stories of the Quiché demonstrating that their belief system was greatly influenced by an outside source. In Dennis Tedlock ’s translation of the Popol Vuh‚ the connection between Christian theology and Mayan civilization is clearly seen with inferences between
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The Mayan empire was a pre-Columbian civilization located in Central America near the Mexico - Guatemala border. These geniuses lived about 500 -600 years B.Sc. They developed technology that rivaled the masterminds of that era in the Eurasian continent. There is evidence that leads to running water‚ sewer systems and the concept of 0 which did not come to existence in the old world hundreds of years later. This empire was all about religion‚ their gods‚ and human sacrifice. Since there was an
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The Olmec civilization thrived from c. 1500 BC to 400 BC‚ in the modern day Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco. Due to lack of archaeological evidence‚ the Olmec’s origin of ethnic identity is unknown. There is such a lack of knowledge that researchers still are unaware of the name this group of people referred to themselves as. The title Olmec comes from‚ ‘Olmec-Xicalanca‚ which is the name of the multi-lingual traders of the Conquest Era‚ from the same region‚ and the name has stuck through
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it all started and how it changed over the years. The history of chocolate a beverage and ended in a bar. To begin with the history of chocolate all started with the Olmecs‚ an ancient civilization‚ in southern Mexico which thrived from 1500 B.C. to 400 B.C. Then it got passed along to the Mayan civilization. The Mayans used chocolate mainly as a drink. They usually flavored it with herbs‚ spices‚ or even chili. Then they shaked it back and forth to make it foamy. Next came the Aztecs‚ they thought
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think of mindless human beings that hadn’t been exposed to western culture. These people would be entirely wrong. The early Mesoamericans had many technological and intellectual accomplishments that they had used and perfected to create thriving civilizations. This was all accomplished from the ancient times to the post-classical periods. Granted that it is a large span of time‚ the fact that they had achieved so much with no contact with the Eastern World is what the amazing part is. The Mesoamericans
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Mesoamerican and Andean Artistry By Erica Seidman The Olmec and Chavin peoples were important to the development of Mesoamerican and Andean civilizations because they provided the foundations of cultural influence in which their predecessors derived from. In particular‚ the two artistic styles that became prevalent throughout pre-Columbian civilizations can be credited to the time when the Olmec and Chavin peoples lived whom marked the beginning of artistic production in Mesoamerican and Andean
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