Top Banner
Quiz • List three early civilizations of Central and South America. • How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked like.
28

Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

Jan 01, 2016

Download

Documents

Naomi Underwood
Welcome message from author
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
Page 1: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

Quiz• List three early civilizations of Central and

South America.

• How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked like.

Page 2: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

Great Civilizations of Central & South America

Aztec, Maya, and Inca

Page 3: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

Objectives:

• Identify North, Central and South America on a Map.

• Identify regions in Mesoamerica and South America inhabited by the Aztec, Maya and Inca.

• Discuss the arts and culture of the early civilizations of Central and South America

• Create artworks related to the cultures of Central and South American early civilizations.

Page 4: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.
Page 5: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

Mesoamerica

• Mesoamerica – the region where North and South America meet.

• Mesoamerica has been home to many great civilizations, including the – Olmecs– Maya– Toltecs– Aztecs

Page 6: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

Aztec Arts• Aztecs had many types of art and artists like

stone-workers, who carved statues; scribes, who painted pictograms; potters, who would make pots for various things; and feather-workers, who would create beautiful head dresses among other things.

• Music and dance were a significant part of Aztec life. Music and dance were closely linked to religion. The most common instruments were rattles, whistles, trumpets, flutes, copper bells, and shells. Everyone took part in dances performed especially for the gods, including peasants.

Page 7: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

Calendars

• Calendars: Like the Maya and other American civilizations, the Aztecs had two cycles to their calendar, one a 365-day solar year and one a 260 ritual year. Combined, they made a 52-year 'Calendar Round'. The Aztecs believed bad things happened at the end of a Calendar Round.

Page 8: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

Aztec Calendar

• The Aztecs believed that the world had already been created and destroyed four times and their Fifth World was doomed.

• The Aztec calendar was an adaptation of the Mayan calendar

Page 9: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

Aztec Calendar

Page 10: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

The 20 Aztec Day Signs

Page 11: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

Names of Days

• These symbols were combined with a number give the date, such as Three Vulture.

• The days were named after familiar creatures or everyday things, such as lizard or water. Each day also had its own god.

• Children were often named after the day on which they were born, a custom that still continues in some parts of Mexico up to the present day.

Page 12: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

Mayan Calendar

Page 13: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

Ballgames• For some 3,000 years, the Maya played games with a

rubber ball. The best known took place in the ballcourt that was a feature of every city.

• This was usually an alley formed by two parallel structures, some remains of which have survived. Rules varied, but two teams – each consisting of two or three players – were usually involved, and points were scored by hitting the ball at a ring of markers.

• The game was both a sport to bet on and a metaphor for the cosmos, with the ball seen as the sun moving in and out of the underworld. Sometimes the game's winners would sacrifice the losers to the gods.

Page 14: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

Ball-game players used only their hips and knees to hit a solid rubber ball through the ring.

Page 15: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

Pyramid Temple 1 at Tikal was built in the 700s AD as a memorial to a Maya king. Nine stone platforms were built above the burial chamber, to create a tall pyramid shape reaching up to the sky.

Temple Tomb

Page 16: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

Project: Create your own Aztec Calendar• Trace a circle onto a piece of

8.5x11 paper. Use a large lid, stencil or compass.

• Draw an image of a sun in the middle of the circle radiating outward towards the edges.

• Evenly draw out several smaller circles inside the large circle.

• Draw or trace at least 10 day signs around the smaller circles.

• Color your design with pencil colors or markers.

Page 17: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

Project: Mayan Clay Vessel

Page 18: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.
Page 19: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.
Page 20: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.
Page 21: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.
Page 22: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

Inca Art

• There were many Inca craftsmen in the Andes. They were expert architects who constructed stone walls. The artisans also made silver alpacas that show their great skills.

• The Inca craftsmen achieved a high degree of respect and honor because of their skills in arts and crafts. They sculpted pottery which featured geometric designs painted in black, red, brown, yellow, and white.

Page 23: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

Inca Arts & Crafts

• Metalworkers make ornaments, tools, and weapons out silver, copper, gold, and bronze. They excelled at working metals like silver, copper, and gold. Female statues are found with Inca offerings to the gods. Because llamas were very protected in the Andean region, lots of stylized llama figures were made by metalworkers.

Page 24: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

• Inca weavers wove beautiful textiles from alpaca, llama, and vicuña wool and from cotton

• The Inca were very famous for their ideas of handling and working materials they used for public buildings. The Inca used stones that weighed many tons in the building. The stones were brought by labors from quarries using rollers, wedges, ropes, and inclined planes.

• Another favorite of the Incas was music played on woodwinds (which include flutes and panpipes, and trumpets made of shell and ceramics) and drums. They played haunting melodies for ceremonies or just for fun.

Page 25: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

Machu Picchu

Page 26: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

Tumi KnifeCeremonial Knife

Page 27: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

Jaguar Vessel

Page 28: Quiz List three early civilizations of Central and South America. How did these early civilizations determine what day it was? Describe what it looked.

• http://library.thinkquest.org/27981/

• http://www.studystack.com/studytable-36108

• http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/theme/ancient05.htm