maya, aztec, 2015
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- NOT TERRITORY- The measure of power as number of
People over which one ruled & work that could be done:
- Agriculture- Architecture
• Ground Sensing
Radar
• GPS
• Archaeology/ Excavation
• Historical Imagination,
Extrapolation
• Looting = Problem!!
Richard D. Hansen, Idaho State University – Head of Mirador Basin Project in Guatemala
• Palaces
• Royal Acropolis
• Temples
• Meeting Rooms
• Pyramids
• Squares (Plazas)
• Observatories
• Ball Courts
Regional Trade
Currency = Cocoa BeansSalt Jade
Cotton Obsidian
Ceramics Feathers
Tools Animal hides
Honey Quetzel Feathers
Vanilla Basalt
Cocoa
Sky glyph Sky Watcher
Venus
Milky Way
LunarEclipses
Moon Phases
EquinoxSolstice
Solar Year
Constellations
Ritual & Solar CalendarYears
Marriage of Math, Astronomy,
Writing.
52-YearConvergence
365-Day Solar Year
Ridged Field System
Hieroglyphs
Rubber
Paper & Ink – early 400’s CE
Astronomy & Building technologies
Mathematics
Accurate CalendarNO WHEEL
Spread:TradeMilitary Conquest
Three City States
1427 Triple Alliance
TributeDependence on Central Power For Luxury Goods
1519High Point
1521 - Cortez allied withTributary statesTo Defeat Aztec
Mexica migrated
from North: 1325Swampy Island in Lake Texcoco.
Tenochtitlan
Central RuleGovernors of ProvincesPersian Model
No Bureaucracy
Professional Army- best of everything
Heavy Taxation: ServiceAgricultural GoodsLuxury GoodsTribute ProductsSacrificial Victims