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Application activity
1. Work in small groups to investigate about
an ancient culture.
2. Write about the activities that
characterized the culture you chose usingthe verbs that better describe them.
3. Make a model of a city built by the
culture you are working with using
recycled material.4. how your model to the group and talk
about it.
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Cacaxtla, Mexico.
A good deal of what we know about the small city-state of Cacaxtla in
Mexico comes from its colorful, complex murals. !er ",### years ago,
Cacaxtla grew in a modest way with temples, palaces, and some smallpyramids.
$he lmeca-%icalanca people li!ed in Cacaxtla as warriors and
Meticulous builders. $heir society appears to ha!e been di!ided into
distinct social strata, but little else is known about them.
$heir magnificent murals depict colorful scenes of battle, trade, and
worship. $he &attle Mural is one of the grandest at 2 meters tall and 2#
meters wide. 't shows a gory scene of armed (aguar warriors
pre!ailing o!er defenseless bird warriors.
Cacaxtla would appear to ha!e a powerful army, a !ibrant economy, and asophisticated culture. &ut at least one art history professor, Claudia
&rittenham, thinks the portrayal represents the people of Cacaxtla as they
wished to be rather than as they truly were. )*e sometimes ha!e a terrible habit of
thinking of art as though it+s somehow separate from life, as if it+s decorati!e and not
an essential thing, she said. )'n the pre-modern world, that+s not true. All art is
political, and the art can be an acti!e agent in creating a sense of community.
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Characterized the culture
1. !aint
2. "rchitect
3. !ractice different sports
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Model of city build by the culture
architect
paint
sports
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