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 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

Mayan Religious /Social (PS)

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.

1. Aztec Eagle and Jaguar warriors (Military orders)2. 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.