
Trace the Maya region from preclassic to post-contact, highlighting city-states, drought-driven decline around 840, rebirth after 900 with the Spaniards, shaped by limestone geology and corn agriculture.
Trace the Palapa Myia origins and the first Chichen Itza families, map early migrations into the Yucatan, and show how hieroglyphic inscriptions reconstruct Maya history.
Chichen Itza blends Toltec and Mexican styles, reflecting cultural diffusion, and features Castillo, temple of the Warriors, ball courts, Temple of the Jaguars, and the Karakol Observatory along trade routes.
Discover Chichén Itzá's temple of the initial series, the structure of the structures, and the platform of the turtle to study Maya masonry and Toltec influence.
This course is on the Maya City of Chichén Itzá. Chichén Itzá, mouth of the well of the Itza, is considered to have been the most important site in the Yucatan during the Late to Post Classic 600-1250 AD. It is an amazing and imposing site that grew in the tropical rainforests of the Yucatan Peninsula. Strategically located in the crossroads of important Sacbes it grew to become a center of commerce, religion and astronomy. The Temple of Kukulcan features a unique and awe inspiring astronomical event triggered by the Equinoxes. 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.