mesoamerican history
... 1. The materials in the Olmec Heartland perished without a trace, because they were made out of organic material and they were disintegrated with the acidity of the soil as the years passed by. 3. The Long Count system is a Calendar round system, starting date 13 august 3114 B.C. Dates are presented in terms of the numbers of periods of varying length that have elapsed since the mechanism was set in motion. Coefficients were expressed in terms of bars and dots numerals. It is still unknown where, when and why the long count was invented. It was very important because with the system they were able to calculate dates. 4. There were found olmec relics outside the “Olmec Heartland”, especially in the state of Guerrero, because most of the relics were small and could have been carried by aboriginal trade or even by olmec missionaries. 5. In the Post- Classic they began planting the fundaments, but they did not fully blossomed till the Classic. In the Classic period urban construction began at Teotihuacan. Teotihuacan became like a city and population grew. 6. The caves beneath the Pyramid of the Sun were significant for the later peoples of Mesoamerica, because they were symbolic wombs from which gods like the Sun and Moon and the ancestors of mankind emerged in the mythological past. It is a combination highly sacred by the Mesoamericans. 7. Sacrifices were made in a very realistic fashion around the temple of Quetzalcoatl there were even sacrificial burials placed during construction and inauguration of the pyramid. In the Mayan culture it was a festivity and a honor to give up your life to a god. 8. Historians consider Teotihuacan the closest thing to a fully functioning city, because Teotihuacan quickly became the largest and most populous urban center in the New World. They increased in agricultural production, technological invention and the establishment of trading systems, they builded a hierarchy that differentiated the poor from the rich, those are components of our civilization now a days. 9. There are some theories given for the collapse of Teotihuacan, one is that internal conflicts lead the teotihuacans to abandon the city, but there were also some signs of fire and destruction. There are some theories about shortage of food; however, I favor the theory that they gradually abandoned the city. 10.The Chinampa was very important to Aztec civilization because one half to two quarters of the food consumed by the city of Tenochtitlan was subtended by chinampas, it allowed inhabitants to make use of the lake water and it also increased the productivity by the farm...