ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Feathered Serpent, Quetzalcoatl, Teotihuacan
15 Mar 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Mesopotamia: a cultural region which includes mexico and central america. Domesic: chilli: 6k bp, cocoa: 3k bp, squash and beans 2k00 bp: turkey: 2k bp. Teoihuacan may be the irst civilizaion: they have pyramids of the moon, sun and dead. Citadels and temples of feathered serpent, quetzalcoatl (looks a bit like a dragon) Industrial scale obsidian (volcanic galss-rock) producion for dart ips. Tikal (guatamala) power and religion was connected, however not as clear of diference of wealth in graves. K"inich yax k"uk mo: founder of copan dynasty. Ariicial cranial deformaion pracice by all levels of society. Aztecs: short reign" that starts in mexico valley, mexico city. Aztec socieies: nobles and commoners live in calpilli. Military had common soldiers but centre is pros, atlatl bow and arrow, got crat specialist. Codex mendoza writen by antonio de mendoza of spain, viceroy, rep of spanish king.
