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Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica
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Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica

A journey into the Past
Created byFederico von Borstel
Last updated 8/2021
English
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What you'll learn

  • Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica
  • Increased appreciation of Art
  • The course enhances human development.
  • The course promotes self-learning.

Course content

1 section • 16 lectures • 2h 50m total length

  • Introduction3:40

    Explore the timeline of ancient Mesoamerica from paleo-Indian cultures. Trace the Olmec formative period through classic and postclassic eras, noting funerary art, remembrance of dead, and a sketchbook.

  • Mesoamerican Civilizations 27:18

    Explore the geography and cultures of Mesoamerica, from the Altiplano central and Maya areas to arid America, shaped by mountains, tectonic plates, and water resources.

  • Mesoamerican Civilizations 36:32

    Trace the five major Mesoamerican regions and the paleo Indian to postclassic chronology using the course-wide chart. Explore Teotihuacan, Toltecs, Aztecs, Zapotec, Mixtec, and Maya across formative and classic periods.

  • Mesoamerican Civilizations 48:04

    Explore the origins of the first Americans, tracing Paleo-Indian cultures, the Bering land bridge, coastal routes, and the Clovis culture with Thor Heyerdahl's Contiki expedition across the Pacific.

  • Mesoamerican Civilizations 511:52

    Trace the domestication of corn from Paxil Veracruz to modern varieties, its role in milpa farming with the three sisters—corn, beans, squash—and the cultural significance of maize deities.

  • Mesoamerican Civilizations 69:06

    Discover the work valley as a cradle of agriculture in Mesoamerica, revealing early domestication of corn, squash, and beans and the oldest water management system in America.

  • Mesoamerican Civilizations 714:17

    Examine the formative period in the Valley of Mexico, tracing Politico and Latigo sites, sedentary maize farmers, and the unmistakable Olmec influence on figurines and burial goods.

  • Mesoamerican Civilizations 812:49

    Explore the Olmec formative period, examining the corn deity, emerald snake motifs, and intricate sculpture that reveal early writing, design, and regional centers along Veracruz and Tabasco.

  • Mesoamerican Civilizations 914:30

    Explore the Wacken ceremonial center, its pyramids of the sun and moon, and the avenue of the dead, tracing cosmological, architectural, and astronomical design across centuries.

  • Mesoamerican Civilizations 106:15

    Discover the Toltec empire in central Mexico, with its capital at Tula, origin myths from Chicomoztoc, and the key deities Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, alongside Toltec–Mayan interactions.

  • Mesoamerican Civilizations 1113:18

    Explore the Maya civilization as an agglomeration of chiefdoms across the Yucatan Peninsula, Chiapas, Tabasco, and Guatemala, with a stratified society, monumental temples, ball courts, and rich astronomy and calendars.

  • Mesoamerican Civilizations 1210:13

    Learn to read a Mixtec codex from Oaxaca, tracing the life of the hero eight deer tiger claw via iconographic and phonetic symbols. Explore time notations and a 52-year cycle.

  • Mesoamerican Civilizations 1319:23

    Explore the Day of the Dead in Mesoamerican cultures, focusing on the Tanaka necropolis in Veracruz, altar traditions, marigolds, calaveras, offerings, and the living-dead bond.

  • Mesoamerican Civilizations 148:38

    Explore the Purépecha civilization in Michoacán, thriving at the time of the Spanish invasion, highlighting daily life, traditional dress, and lake-side platforms.

  • Mesoamerican Civilizations 1518:45

    Trace Aztec origins from the north to the Valley of Mexico, tracing the canoe journey to Chapultepec and the eagle on a nopal founding sign.

  • Course Catalog5:32

    Explore the course catalog and learn about ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica within this course curriculum.

Requirements

  • There are no requirements or prerequisites for this course.

Description

Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica

This course is a comprehensive introduction to the Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica, the Geology of Mesoamerica, a Site Analysis, Timeline of Ancient Mesoamerica, The First Americans, Paleo-Indian Cultures, 15,000–3500 BC, Paxil, Veracruz, Archaic, 3500–2000 BC, Tehuacan, Puebla, Archaic, 3500–2000 BC, Tlatilco Culture and Tlapacoya, the Formative Period, 2000 BC–250 AD, The Olmec Civilization, the Formative Period in the Gulf, 2000 BC–250 AD, The Design of the Civic and Ceremonial Center of Teotihuacan, Early Classic Period, 250–900 AD, The Toltecas, and the Legend of Quetzalcoatl Classic Middle, 250–900 AD, Atlantida Maya, Classic 250–900, Zapotecas and Mixtecas, the Codex Nuttall, Totonacas, Remembrance of the Dead, Late Classic, 600–900 AD, The Purepechas of the West Coast, Postclassic, 900–1521, Origin of the Aztecs, and the Founding of Tenochtitlan, Postclassic 900–1521. Welcome!

I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.

Who this course is for:

  • This course if for anyone interested in the Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica

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