Where were the Maya and Aztec empires located? (MULTIPLE CHOICE)?
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C\n\nMexico has a lot of the ancient ruins of these two great ancient civilizations.
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The Olmec were an ancient people living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, roughly in what are the modern-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Their immediate cultural influence went much further though, Olmec artwork being found as far afield as El Salvador. The Olmec predominated in their lands from about 1200 BC to about 400 BC and they are, in fact, claimed by many to be the progenitors and mother culture of every primary element common to later Mesoamerican civilizations.
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There are a LOT of ruin sites in CA that have pyramids.  It's hard to know which one you want without more details.  Anything else you can think of to pinpoint it?  \n\nI have been to the Mayan ruins at Copan in Honduras - very cool.\nCould also be Tikal in Guatemala or Altun Ha in Belize.  I think that those are 3 of the most well known outside of Mexico.\n\nOh yeah, there are the smaller sites of Caracol, Lamanai, and Xuantunich in Belize.\n\nThere is a long list of site names without locations at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization#List_of_Maya_sites .  You might see if any of those sound familiar.
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Nothing New About It\n\nhttp://www.limitstogrowth.org/WEB-text/aztlan.html\n\nIn 1997, then-President Zedillo proclaimed that \n“I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation \nextends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring the ''conquista,'' \nSpain tried to impose on Mexico \na common western language, religion, and culture, \nand to the degree it was successful.  \nIt was also anti-American.  \nWe should remember \nthat the Spaniards were building the great cathedral \nat the Zocolo in Mexico City \na hundred years before George Washington \ntook control of the Continental Army \nat Cambridge, Massachusetts.  \nHere are two different world views, sharing the same continent.\n\nIn his article, Clash of Civilizations?, \nSamuel P. Huntington reminds us \nthat cultural differences may cause future wars, \nand that these wars will be along cultural ''fault lines.''  \n\nThe U. S.--Mexican border is one of those fault lines.  \n\nHuntington writes, \n''Civilization identity will be increasingly important in the future,\nand the world will be shaped in large measure \nby the interactions among seven or eight major civilizations \n\nThe most important conflicts of the future \nwill occur along the cultural fault lines \nseparating these civilizations from one another.'' \n\nIn regard to Mexico, Huntington writes, \n''During the past decade, \nMexico has assumed a position \nsomewhat similar to that of Turkey. \nJust as Turkey abandoned its historic opposition to Europe \nand attempted to join Europe, \nMexico has stopped defining itself \nby its opposition to the United States \nand is instead attempting to imitate the United States.''  \nHowever, \nunlike Canada, \nMexico has a large, nonwestern, indigenous population \nthat has not yet been integrated into modernity.  \nThis native population also carries \nan unconscious weight of resentment \ntowards the Spanish conquest, \nwhich it now mistakenly displaces onto the U. S. \n\nMexico's indigenous population \nis one of the contemporary strains in that society.  \nSub-Comandante Marcos \nand the uprising in Chiapas of indigenous people \nis a prediction of what is to come in Mexico \nif that strain cannot be relieved.\n  \nThe Mexican elites have decided, therefore, \nto reduce this strain by sending north \nas many poor and jobless Mexicans as they can.  \nInstead of solving their own problems, \nwhich might entail a reduction of their status, \nthe ruling Mexican elites have decided to keep the fiesta going\nand let the U. S. handle the cleanup. \n\nA top adviser \nto past Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari \ndescribed to Huntington all the changes \nthe Salinas government was making.  \nWhen the advisor finished, Huntington remarked: \n''That's most impressive.  \nIt seems to me that basically you want to change Mexico \nfrom a Latin American country into a North American country.''\nHe looked at me with surprise and exclaimed: \n''Exactly!  \nThat's precisely what we are trying to do, \nbut of course we could never say so publicly.'' \n \nWhat also could not be said publicly \nis that Mexico wants to reclaim its ''lost'' territory.  \nIt will use economics and illegal immigrants to do this.\n\nMany Mexican elites believe that to become a modern nation,\nMexico has to restructure its economy \nand regain the territory it lost during the first Mexican war.  \nFor over a century, \nMexican nationalists have used the myths and symbols \nof a lost but glorious indigenous past \nto motivate its plans for expansion. \n \nD. H. Lawrence wrote about this myth building in his novel, \nThe Plumed Serpent. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf the ''reconquista'' continues unchecked \nfor the next twenty years, \nthe U. S. will be a fundamentally different society than it is today.\n\nThere will be more poverty and low-wage jo
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The Aztecs had a mega pantheon of gods and practiced human sacrifice to appease more than a few of them. \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_mythology
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Kashmir is a disputed region along the border of India and Pakistan (for your question, Asia).  Aztlan is a trick question, though you may not know it.  It is considered by many to be the U.S. Southwest, however this is due only to modern political propaganda.  In truth Aztlan is a largely mythical land north of the Aztec empire, which means it could be Baja California for all we know.  No one knows where it is, but we can put it in North America for your question.  Manchuria is northeast China (Asia) , and Zion is Israel (Asia).  \n\nNow, can you name where Ulaan Bataar is?  Not to boast, but I have been there.\n\nYes, I am a "dumb" American, looking for an actually challenging question.
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Holy crap.  I was just watching a program last night about pyramids, mummies and something else.  They looked at pyramids in Nubia, Egypt, China, and the Americas.\n\nthe Pyramid of Kukulcan is better know as the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent\n\nDang, this is a hard one.  According to: http://archaeology.asu.edu/teo/fsp/Others/fspgnrl.htm the pyramid is 65 meters on a side at the base.\n\nI'd say search for pyramid of the feathered serpent with words like architecture, height, dimension, etc...\n\nSorry I couldn't help more.
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present a timeline of mexican colonization by europeans
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C.\n\nAnd one funny thing was that the Aztecs wondered why the Spaniards wore their food-dish on their heads..(as an anecdote !):-)
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The Maya civilization is a historical Mesoamerican civilization, which extended throughout the northern Central American region which includes the present-day nations of Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras and El Salvador, as well as the southern Mexican states of Chiapas, Tabasco, and the Yucatán peninsula states of Quintana Roo, Campeche and Yucatán.\n\nOrigins\nArchaeological evidence shows the Maya had started to build ceremonial architecture by approximately 1000 BC. There is some disagreement about the boundaries which differentiate the physical and cultural extent of the early Maya and their neighboring Pre-Classic Mesoamerican civilizations, such as the Olmec culture of the Tabasco lowlands and the Mixe-Zoque– and Zapotec–speaking peoples of Chiapas and southern Oaxaca. Many of the earliest significant inscriptions and buildings appeared in this overlapping zone, and evidence suggests that these cultures and the formative Maya influenced one other.\n\nThe earliest monuments consist of simple burial mounds, the precursors to pyramids erected in later times.\n\nEventually, the Olmec culture faded after spreading its influence into the Yucatan peninsula, present-day Guatemala, and other regions.\n\nThe Maya developed the famed cities of Tikal, Palenque, Copán and Kalakmul, as well as Dos Pilas, Uaxactun, Altun Ha, Bonampak and many other sites in the area (see list of sites, below). They developed an agriculturally intensive, city-centered empire consisting of numerous independent city-states. The most notable monuments are the pyramids they built in their religious centers and the accompanying palaces of their rulers. Other important archaeological remains include the carved stone slabs usually called stelae (the Maya called them Tetun, or "Tree-stones"), which depict rulers along with hieroglyphic texts describing their genealogy, war victories, and other accomplishments.\n\nFor more info see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Civilization#Origins
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Yeah and Mexico back to the Aztecs.Then the Incas can take that back and so on till we find those cavemen I've seen in those commercials.
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It would be more constructive to ask the ways they are different.  And which calendar you are comparing to which. \nThe Maya had many calendars; the Aztecs only had two: the solar-agricultural calendar (365 days, 18 20 month days plus 1 5 month day) and the 260 day ritual calendar. Both of these were based off the Mayan calendars, except for the language of course, and it's suspected that the Olmecs (who came before the Maya) actually created them.\nIf you are talking about the calendar which "ends" in 2012, the Aztecs did not use or follow that one (called the Long Count). Instead they used the New Fire ceremony, which happens every 52 years when the 260 day and the 365 day calendars came together.
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Baja California and Yucatan
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Moctezuma Xocoytl II \n1480-1520 \nAztec Emperor \nMoctezuma Xocoytl is the most well known emperor in the history of the Aztecs. He was also the last true emperor the Aztec empire would ever know, for it was during his reign that Cortez came to conquer Mexico. So how was it that such a great emperor and his awesome empire was conquered by a force of less than one thousand when the empire’s capital city alone numbered around three hundred thousand? The Aztec’s down fall was due to one thing alone. That thing was the Aztec’s false religion that governed every part of their lives and the superstition that Moctezuma held due to this false religion. \n\nMoctezuma II, also know as Moctezuma Xocoytl (Xocoytl simply meaning the younger), was born the youngest son of the Emperor Axacayatl who ruled from 1469 until his death in 1481, one year after Moctezuma’s birth. The Imperial line of the Aztecs was not hereditary. A council of elders upon the death of the Emperor simply chose a young man from a noble family to be the next ruler. So Axacayatl was succeeded by a ruthless and bloodthirsty emperor named Ahuitzol, who ruled from 1481 to 1502. Upon his death, Moctezuma II was chosen. At the time, he was in his early twenties and student at the temple. After he was placed on the throne, he immediately started showing that he was more of a “take charge” ruler and different than his successor. While he did personally lead his armies into 43 military victories, he also made a lot of economic changes and attempted to help his people. He built a double aqueduct and several temples. He would also go out in the city in disguise to discover if his latest edict was being carried out and offer bribes to the city judges to discover if they were corrupt in an attempt to better the political and legal system. \n\nNot much is known about his personal life, his likes and dislikes and whether or not he had a wife and a lot of children. Really all that is known is that he loved chocolate and that his daughter Isabella, the one child that is known of, fell heir to what was left of his vast fortune and wealth after the Spanish took over. Since Moctezuma was a temple student in the early years of his life before he became the Emperor, he knew much about his religion and its gods, which caused him to be very superstitious when Cortez came. An Aztec legend was that one of the Great Quetzalcoatl would return as a bearded white man. Also, the Spanish sailed in from the east, which was supposedly the direction that the god had sailed off to. Knowing all this had Moctezuma believing that Cortez was a god to be feared.\n\nWhen Cortez first arrived in 1519, Moctezuma thought he was the god Quetzalcoatl. He believed that because of the fact that Cortez and his arrival concurred with Aztec legends about the god. Also, when Moctezuma asked after these strange visitors, he was told that their weapons spat lightning and thunder and that some of them had two heads, six legs, and one body (the Aztecs having never seen horses before, let alone men riding on them). He was superstitious and feared what the gods would do or what they might require if something displeased them. After all, the gods were horrible and ruthless, demanding human hearts just to keep their hunger appeased. At first, Moctezuma tried to bribe them into leaving by sending gold and many other gifts. Then, when Cortez burned all the ships except the one that was to send the messages back to the King and advanced toward the city, he managed, by those actions, to further convince Moctezuma that he was a god. Surely only a god could be so bold and fearless. \n\nMoctezuma continued trying to bribe him by sending even more gold and gifts, this time to stay away from the city, right up until Cortez and his men had reached the city gates. Still believing that these men were gods, Moctezuma allowed and even welcomed them into the city where he even gave them flowers from his own private garden, one of
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aztec pyramids, pancho villa, pinatas. I assume you mean Mexican/Spanish not Spain/Spanish
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I checked on Internet and they say it was the early Aztecs.
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some of those civilizatrions sounded rather sophisticated yet brutal...  kinda like having two ball players play and killing the losers?  The Incas Aztecs and Mayans were descendents of people who spead out from Babel after the flood\n\ninterestingly the Mayan Calender goes back to roughly 56 years shorter than the 4004BC calender of Bishop Ussher. Sounds familiar... why might that be  having Calienders dating to the Bbilical creation on the other side of the world almost as if people spread out from Babel at one time after the flood.