Roles that helped shape the development of the Mesoamerican society were innovations, inventions, labor organizations and industries. Also the roles assigned to the girls and boys in their society and also their literature that they wrote. The roles in helping develop the Mesoamerican society can categorized into three different area Technology, Culture, and Economy. One of the roles identified in Mesoamerican society is Technology. For example, in Document #1, Francisco Hernandez, a Spanish naturalist of the early 16th century, he believed that this plant was able to help the Valley of Mexico in various different ways such as firewood, to cover roofs, or as roof tiles, plates or as dishes, make paper, footwear, cloth, and various garments. The plant can also be …show more content…
A document that would be able to help support D ocument #1 would be a report of someone who bought the plant to use for the uses as listed by Francisco Hernandez. That document would help prove the usefulness of the plant. Now according to Document #2, you would be able to determine that the Mayas were really advanced for their time since them possessing steadfast bow, the swift, sharp flint arrow, and also body armor, the cape, and the collar. Also in Document #5 Heran Cortes, a Spanish conqueror of the Aztec Empire in 1521, the empire at the time believed that the empire was advancing at a very rapid rate in all aspects of the empire. The conqueror also believed that by talking about the bridges, multitude of canoes, and the wooden bridges it expressed how truly advanced the Aztecs were and also how skilled they were. All these technological accomplishments helped play into the development of the Mesoamerican society. A document that would be able to help support this would be something that came from the Aztecs
Meso-American religion involves a variety of beliefs and rituals of the people of Central America and Mexico before the arrival of the Spanish in the 1500s C.E. The beliefs of the ancient Meso-American religious traditions were focused around an annual calendar that had an accompanying ritual cycle. This calendar was associated with various Meso-American deities, often representing different aspects of the cosmos including a creator god, a god of war, a sun god, a fire god, etc. Various beliefs were practiced by the ancient Meso-American peoples that included diverse forms and levels of the afterlife, with each containing its own deity. Religious rituals and practices were typically governed by priests that had been educated in astronomy and genealogy. These priests were often adorned with jewels, ornaments of many colors, exquisite jewels and many had dual roles as diviners. Using idols was common in Meso-American religion and they were usually depicted in the form of animals or having animals as a part of them. Several of these ancient traditions included rituals of sacrifice to the gods, even human sacrifice.
When someone say’s “hispanic,” what definition comes to mind? Hispanics are not one nationality, nor one culture. Instead, Hispanics are greatly diverse people. Our language and cultural origins are Spanish and Latin American, regardless of race and color. Hispanics can be European, Indian, or of African descent, or any combination of the three. The culture could be linked to Mexico, the Caribbean countries, Central America, South America and Spain. Hispanics were once considered a rarity in the United States, now we are found throughout the country.
The Three good examples or remarkable achievements by the ancient Maya were their Trade Network, Magnificent Cities, and their number system. The Maya’s Trade Network were paths, route, and places to follow when a trade needs to be done. This made more simpler to find resources and satisfy two people’s reads at the same time. They did everything an foot or boat and carries everything by hand. This was remarkable because it was a significance for the Mayas to have a trade system. It made it easier to find and get resources. Evidence of the Maya’s magnificent cities were the immense stone pyramids, stone palaces, ball courts, and other vital buildings. They had to build it with their own hands.
Imagine a person taking a walk through an art gallery that displays the pieces from cultures of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca. Would one be able to distinguish which piece came from which culture? There are many similarities in these cultures when it comes to art, architecture, and lifestyle. These three cultures make up part of what was Mesoamerica. Although they share a lot of are similarities, each culture is unique in their own way. However, it is clear that they derived influence from each other. This paper provides an insight on how these cultures arts are strikingly similar yet different in their own way.
Miller, Mary Ellen. The art of Mesoamerica: from Olmec to Aztec. 4th ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001.
The increase and changing demography in the United State today, with the disparities in the health status of people from different cultural backgrounds has been a challenge for health care professionals to consider cultural diversity as a priority. It is impossible for nurses and other healthcare professionals to learn and understand theses diversity in culture, but using other approaches like an interpreter is very helpful for both nurses and patients. In this paper of a culturally appropriate care planning, I will be discussing on the Hispanic American culture because, I had come across a lot of them in my career as a nurse. The Hispanic are very diverse in terms of communication and communities and include countries like Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, South and Central America, and some of them speak and write English very well, some speaks but can’t write while some can’t communicate in English at all but Spanish.
The economic systems of early American societies were very similar. One of these societies, the Mayans, lived in southern Mexico and northern Central America from the 3rd to the 10th century CE, and they relied on the trade of goods such as obsidian and crops such as cacao beans. Another American civilization was the Aztec civilization. They were located in the Valley of Mexico around the 13th to 16th century CE, and they used slash-and-burn farming to plant crops to trade. The Inca Empire existed from the 13th to the 16th century CE along the Pacific coast of South America near the Andes Mountains. The Inca used terrace farming and irrigation to grow crops such as corn. The economies of these early American civilizations were heavily based on trade and agriculture.
The Olmec civilization is known as the “mother” of all Mesoamerican civilizations, this is because of how influential it was to the later civilizations that arose later during that time period. The Mesoamerican civilizations developed in Central America and Mexico, they were a counterpart of the Mesopotamian civilizations. The Mayas, the Olmec’s, the Zapotec and the Toltec’s are all defined as Mesoamerican civilizations. Yet, the most significant civilization in Mesoamerica before 1350 CE was the Olmec civilization because it was the first to develop in Mesoamerica and many of its elements influenced the future tribes.
Culture is customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group. It includes behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, values, and norms that is shared by a group of people to sustain their lives. Mexican culture is influenced by their familial ties, gender, religion, location and social class, among other factors. Today life in the cities of Mexico has become similar to that in neighboring United States and Europe, with provincial people conserving traditions more so than the Mexican living in the city. In the United States Mexican includes any person of Puerto
This week’s reading covered the topic of Guzmán’s conquest of western Mexico. Included were two accounts that showed the conquest in starkly contrasting lights. The first was an account of the expedition written by Cristóbal Flores for the audiencia in Mexico City. The second was a letter written by Guzmán for his majesty while on the expedition. The accounts written by the two men differ sharply in how they portray the events that occurred during the expedition. An example of this can be seen in how they describe the execution of Cazonci, the lord of Michoacán. However, the authors did agree on a few points, including the nature of the indigenous allies’ actions. In order to better understand the nature of this expedition it is important to both examine the contradictions within the accounts and examine where they were in agreement.
The Olmecs were farmers, traders, artists… innovators. The Olmec culture first emerged in the Isthmus region of Tehuantepec. The site of San Lorenzo, which sits on the Coatzacoalcos River, sheds the most light on this mysterious culture. During this time period, The Initail Formative, food surplus sparked an increase in population and career specialization. With the increase of specialization and sedentism came the environment for complex culture.
Mexican culture has a variety of different and unique ways of cooking and preparing meals. They usually include something mildly spicy. It also has many atypical ingredients compared to ours. Some examples are adobo, which is a red sauce or paste which is made from chipotle chiles. Aguas Frescas, are cold drinks made with fresh fruit mixed with water, they’re more like water than juice, but the ingredients are fresh, not a powder. The most unique ingredient in my opinion is the Mole. Mole is a rich, dark reddish-sauce, usually smooth and sometimes mildly spicy, and sometimes have chocolate in it. Tomatillos are another special ingredient in the Mexican culture, they are mostly called tomato verde in most parts of Mexico, but they aren’t really
In order to really comprehend the religions and societies of Mesoamerica, you must first understand what world making, world centering, and world renewal all mean. Each of the main civilizations of Mesoamerica, the Olmec, Mayan, and Aztec’s all contributed their own versions of world making, centering, and renewal. World making, is defined as a culture’s view of the make up of their universe, and how it was created. Many religions and societies have their own versions of this (Carrasco, 19). For example, in today’s society, the major belief is in the big bang theory. It states, the universe as we know started with a very small atom and then had a “big bang” and then over the next 13.8 billion years became to the universe that we know today.
Many Latin American thinkers focused the scientific stage as a way to help the nation grow. It explains the importance of Positivism in Problems in Modern Latin American History, “Outward manifestations of progress-again railroads, railroads and industrialization-assumed great importance in Positivism and emphatically so among the Latin Americans, whether they acknowledge Comte or not” (Burns, 92). The idea to industrialize was a one-way people saw the importance of helping the economy by bringing in more technology from Europe since it was a success in that continent. The leaders started to consider the usage of innovations that were created in Europe and help economies grow in a faster rate. Usage of technology started to appear in the late 1800s in Latin
Mexicanas, su gente, su geografia, su flora; “Guadalajara, que justo titulo puede llamarse la reina de Occidente... semejante a una mujer dotada de hermosura regia...”(11). Y continua describiendo otros aspectos de Mexico los cuales