Jesus Dominguez Ann Merville Anthropology 20 9 November 2013 Teotihuacan Teotihuacan, located in the highlands of central Mexico, is one of the world's most impressive archaeological sites. Between 100,000 and 200,000 people lived there at its peak around 600 A.D., making it one of the ancient world's largest cities with an urban core covering some twenty square kilometers. Settlement began about 200 B.C. and the basic layout of the city was complete by the mid-second century A.D. Most of the major construction was accomplished within the next hundred years.
The Metropolitan Kouros The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, New York contains well over two million works of art and art related material. These pieces have a vast range of age, from the oldest artifacts, Archeulian flints from Egypt dating as far back as 300,000 B.C.E., to the newest works of art from this year. Contained in the Metropolitan’s collection of Greek and Roman art are many important sculptures. Perhaps one of the most interesting sculptures, The Metropolitan Kouros stands over 6 feet tall, and has some of the most accurate proportions for the archaic period. The term kouros translates to boy in Ancient Greek .
In the desert like conditions of the Southwest, a lot of ancient large scale irrigation systems were constructed by the Hohokam culture, the Anasazi occupied the four corners region what is now the modern day four border region of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona. They constructed large dwellings or towns which were called pueblos by the Spanish at the time. One of the largest known pueblos is Pueblo Bonita in a place called Chaco canyon, New Mexico. This was constructed between C. 850 and 1350 CE. This consisted of nine large houses, covered close to four acres of land, with eight hundred rooms, thirty ceremonial rooms or kivas almost four or five stories high with walls made from sandstone material.
*Lecturer : *Royke* M*. *Kewas*, SS {draw:frame} STIBA BUMI BERINGIN MANADO ENGLISH DEPARTMENT 2009 Maya, Inca and Aztec Civilization The Incas, Aztecs, and Mayans were the one of the first people to start a civilization on America. These tribes started a great civilization in Central, and South America. Mayan the Aztec, Inca, and Mayan civilization had characteristics that were similar and different to each other. These empires controlled the valleys of America for hundreds of years.
In 2025, the emerging powers suggest the rise of a multi-polar world. In 1913, 37% of the global GDP was dominated by the British Empire, 19% by the USA and 9% by both China and Germany. To understand why the British Empire dominated 37% of the world’s global GDP the rigid control that the British Empire had over the world needs to be understood. At its height, during the reign of Queen Victoria, the British Empire had included a quarter of the world's land and people. From the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 to the start of World War I in 1914, Britain acquired so many new colonies that the empire stretched around the world.
Fash was a very interesting book that catalogued the history of the Maya from the Preclassic Period (2000 B.C.E to 250 AD) to the Postclassic Period (900 AD- 1200 AD) including the collapse of the Classic Period centers in the southern lowlands, to the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores in 1519 AD. The first section of the book talks about Copan as being the classic Maya center describing Copan as “the Athens of the New World” and also explains the importance of archeological studies at the site. Copan has more hieroglyphic inscriptions and other sculpted monuments than any other Maya ruin, or any other site in the New World. The principal group of ruins, or site core, consists of a series of large buildings constructed around open courtyards which frequently contained stelae and alters. The principal groups contained two basic parts; the north included many low-lying plazas and to the south, the upraised courtyards and constituent structures were built upon the Acropolis .
|1776 |1870 | | | | |There was 13 colonies and the population was 2,148,100. |There was 37 states and the population was 38,558,371. | |Some important innovations that occurred during this time period |Some important innovations this occurred during that time period were:| |were: lightning rod, rail road, cotton gin, vapor-compression |the phonograph, cars, steam powers and electricity. | |refrigeration, and the mail system.
This figure became the symbol that is now on the Mexican flag. Tenochtitlan While the development of the Aztecs was lengthened. They developed military and common organizations. Tenochtitlan began to mature from the small village of huts into a large city of adobe houses and rock temples. It was said that at the time of the Spanish attack, Tenochtitlan was one of the largest cities in the world, with the populace of about 00,000 natives.
Halfway between Rochester and Sioux Falls close to Lake Ontario since the pride and joy of upper Ney York State. The town Palmyra has a population of 5000 people in the 1830s. All make the living by the canal and others are farmers. Feature of area is a large was a number of mound builders. In Palmyra, there was many generations, they say inside the mounds was gold.
Jake Mazziotti December 3/2013 Number 13 How did the Nile shape ancient Egypt The nile is the longest river in the world-over 4000 miles. The nile shaped many aspects of ancient Egypt society,includings settlement distributions its agriculture system and its spiritual life.One aspect of egyptian society that was influenced by the nile was its population distribution. Most of the population have along the nile flood plain (Doc A) map shows 20 settlements. Everyone is either in the delta or narrow nile valley. The nile did more than shape the settlements its determened life without would be impossible.