UGC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tres Zapotes, Valley Of Mexico, Mudbrick
6 Apr 2016
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Movement into the americas: 50,000-20,000 years ago, moved from eastern asia into alaska via land bridge between russia and alaska, from alaska, people just kept moving more and more south, all the way to southern ip of south. Geography: north: aztecs (modern day mexico, middle: mayan civilizaion, south: inca civilizaion (modern day peru, mesoamerica: meso + america = middle america . 2. c2500 bc: corn (maize) culivaion began: before 2300 bc: beans squash, pumpkins, down south: potatoes. Olmec culture: 1500 bc 300 ad: highly organized religion, complex trade (w mexico up to w paciic coast, wealthy ruling class, form of wriing. 7. c900bc: san lorenzo destroyed, center moved to . La venta island in the middle of the tonala river c300bc: la venta falls, center moved to tres zapotes. Largest site: tikal: 40,000 people, temples, pyramids (observatories for astronomy, palaces (elite and king lived here, ball courts f. Toltec culture 1000 1200 ad: chichimec from north came, collapsed 1200 ad.
