Comparing Chaco Canyon, Chichen Itza, And Tenochtitlan

“Refiguring Aztlan” means that there is more meaning to Aztlan than just a homeland. It was used as a concept to improve cultural and social issues. It was also used to recover land. It also meant that there were no borders. Aztlan was used to unite the community, but it was also used to separate. It was a concept used as an identity. Some of the issues I read on Chapter 10 on Vigil were that U.S. citizens whine about Mexicans taking away their jobs, but Americans don’t even have jobs similar to what Mexicans have to do for a living. Mexicans are paid very low wages, and have jobs as gardeners, janitors, senior- care workers, day laborers, etc. Americans don’t have those types of jobs, so I don’t see how Mexicans are taking away their jobs.

Starting the comparisons of Teotihuacan and Chaco Canyon, we can say that both being an important civilization centers in their respective region, with Teotihuacan being the major center in Mesoamerica, while the Chaco Canyon was the major center of the Ancestral Puebloan civilization. Another common factor were that they both shared the fact the sites were considered holy areas, which were considered important enough to warrant pilgrimages. Both had religious practices preformed in the centers with rituals in Teotihuacan being performed at the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent, while in the Chaco Canyon religious ceremonies were conducted at one of the 32 kivas located within the great houses. Then finally, both sites were later abandon by

The film created a connection of the people living in Barrio Logan showing the life before and after to the changes they had to go through. It was just a humble town that had all the resources the needed to feel safe. Before there was a border people would come as they pleased and enjoy their time the beautiful land to visit the community where everyone knew each other. Then the border created the first separation of the land they used to travel across so easily. Which ripped a part of the place they once knew. After time, many people left as the highway was built right on top of where their homes were built.

The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the 14th, 15th and 16th century. They were a civilization with a rich mythology and cultural heritage. Their capital was Tenochtitlan on the shore of Lake Texcoco. From their magnificent capital city, Tenochtitlan, the Aztecs emerged as the dominant force in central Mexico, developing an intricate religious.

Ever since ancient times, humans have used their uniquely creative minds to organize and construct awe-inspiring architecture. Our planet, once an empty canvas for human innovation, is now coated with manmade constructions. But before towering skyscrapers, grand hotels, and modern chapels came into existence, the world was bejeweled with ancient forms of engineering. Two of the more popular constructions from the ancient world include Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids at Giza. These incredible megaliths are seemingly very different, but share various similarities, and both help archaeologists gain insight to the religious beliefs and socio-political organization of the people who constructed them.

Carrasco defines religion in three categories worldmaking, worldcentering, and worldrenewing. Carrasco’s idea of worldcentering is similar to the idea of cosmos in Eliade’s work. In Carrasco’s work worldcentering is the notion in which individuals look to their surroundings to account for their existence and the way their world functions. Carrasco provides an explanation as to how communities would “center” their world; using symbols as well as rituals would be used to explain how their world operated. Likewise Read and Gonzalez suggest that cosmic topography was used to structure the Mesoamerican life, cosmic topography helped explain that “Mesoamericans live in worlds shaped by mythological visions” (Read and Gonzalez 20). They used features that were defined as a town landscapes to form a vision of their world and “own unique cosmology” (Read and Gonzalez 20), these visions differed by community but essentially they all shared one vision. Similarly Eliade incorporates the idea of cosmos and chaos in his model of the sacred and the profane. Eliade explains that cosmos existed among the religious to maintain them away from the chaos. The cosmos is the idea of a world created by the gods and what remained outside of their world was considered the chaos. In order to keep a connection with their gods and the heavens they would use symbols such as pillars to center their world and have an existing connection the

The first reason that best explains why Tenochtitlan fell is manipulation because the Aztecs thought Cortes was their god but he wasn’t. Cortes manipulated the Aztecs for they can think he is their god and let him inside the empire. This was clear in document 1 when it states “For a while, the Aztecs saw Cortés as the reincarnation of their god Quetzalcoatl, a fact which Cortés used to great advantage.” (Anglin & Hamblin, 1993). This evidence shows how Cortes used Aztecs belief to his advantage. The Aztecs were so shocked that they didn’t fight back. This allowed Cortes to strengthen his position to better take over. This is important to our understanding of how Tenochtitlan fell because If Cortes hadn’t manipulated the Aztec belief and pretended

The first Spaniards to arrive in present day New Mexico saw the wealth that could be found. The land was ideal, they had heard stories of Cibola and the Seven Cities of gold, and they had seen the riches that the natives owned. Pedro Peralta established a fortified capital in 1609 at Santa Fe after becoming governor in 1607.

Tenochtitlan is a city on an island near lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico. Tenochtitlan was found in AD 1325. Tenochtitlan fell in 1520s to Hernan Cortez in a Spanish conquest (1).

Throughout human history, people have come together to form small, independent city-states or large, expanding empires. From the Egyptian Empire in the 16th century BC to the British Empire in the 19th century AD, humankind has seen large and small empires rise and fall. Some empires have been more conventional to the Western understanding, such as the Roman Empire where there was a central capital that had direct control over other territories in which it conquered. Other empires consisted of a more complex system, like the Aztec Empire which consisted of a capital, Tenochtitlan, but had very loose control over its conquered territories. The Aztec Empire and Tenochtitlan rested upon as very complex and important social structure that provided

I was issued to travel to the monstrous Guadalupe Mountains in Salt Flat, Texas. To give you a sense of where it is, it’s in West Texas near El Paso, and extends into New Mexico. The address is 400 Pine Canyon Salt Flat, TX 79847. Source: Geology of National Parks by Harris, Ester Tuttle, and Sherwood D. Tuttle. Because of the intense thunderstorms/high winds during the summer and occasional snow during the winter, I chose October. There’s calmer weather, cooler temperatures (between 50’s and 70’s), and vibrant fall colors. Source: Geology of National Parks by Harris, Ester Tuttle, and Sherwood D. Tuttle. After reading up on some of the history, the Guadalupe Mountains got it’s name from the ranchers that homesteaded in the Guadalupe

The reading passage, suggests some theories about the use of the Chaco Canyon great houses in New Mexico, but the lecturer says unfortunately none of this theories is convincing enough.

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Centro Cultural Aztlan is a community-based organization with a mission to preserve, develop and promote Chicano/Latino art and culture.

The term desert is strongly connected to the image of an extremely harsh environment void of any life. The sand dunes at the Gulf of California would fit this description of a desert biome, but for large parts the Sonoran Desert has a stunning array of different organisms.