Mesoamerican Memory

After a short ten-minute walk home from school, when I finally arrived at my house, I flopped onto the couch. It was a Friday afternoon, and I was ready for the football game that night, and for the weekend to begin. My mom was sitting on the couch across from me and asked me how my day at school was. I described to her what had happened that day, and the stuff we did in my classes. As we get done talking about school, she inquired

Due to isolation, communication and trade was difficult for the Mesoamerican cultures. However, they still managed to succeed in math, agriculture, engineering, and calendrical advances, and although they didn't have the influential ideas in advancement from Europe and Asia cultures, expansion of ideas still existed within the Mesoamerican cultures itself. The Mesoamerican culture can be explained as appeared, spread, and then decayed along the years of development. Likeliness, to Europe and Asia, Mesoamerica was developing naturally from their own perspective, resulting in a huge similarity between the countries. For example, the Olmec's are famous upon archeologist for their art work specifically with the human face. Or the famous corn that

I walked outside the next morning feeling great. The bright vibrant sun shone on the freshly mowed grass. I loaded into my sister's car and we went off to school. The day passed extremely rapid,

One day me my mom and dad and sister we were driving to my aunt and uncle's house.It was about 3:00 and me and my cousins we were playing football.And my mom and my auntie they were making dinner.And my dad and uncle were watching a baseball game.And then it was time to eat.

The Mesoamerican ball game began over 3,500 years ago. Ceremonies, city and daily life revolved around this exciting sport. The survival of the both the players and the spectators depended on the outcome of the game. The Mesoamerican ball game had a court to play on, a ball that was used during the game, uniforms that the players wore, and rules to follow during gameplay. Even though the Mesoamerican ball game was the first sport, it was a very advanced sport with how many different ideas went into the creation of the game. The ball game was found all over Latin America including in the Olmec, Toltec, Maya and Aztec civilizations with the Olmecs believed to be the inventors of the game. The Mesoamerican ball game was not just an exciting and dangerous sport; it was a winner takes all competition. The ball game was a game of life or death.

I put on a pair of jeans and walk downstairs into the dining room, there was a plate with frijoles, chorizo and tortillas waiting for me. My grandmother brings me my favorite drink, homemade chocolate milk. I sit down and across from me is my cousin Lesly. She was bored, she always was.

It was a beautiful day.I just got home from school, my brother and I walked through the door. We got some special news. That my mom would tell us individually.

Wake up son your football game is today get dressed and lets go your gonna be late.

During the last period of the Ice Age the sea level was low enough to allow men to cross on foot the Bering Strait. From his time the people coming from Asia have settled in America. The first signs of human presence in the territory of Mexico date back to 35000 B.C. This historical stage of Mexico is called Lìtica1. At that time there were horses, antelopes, mammoths and other species that disappeared with climate changes. The Mesoamerican 2 story begins in the year 2500 B.C. when the sedentary life began and ceramic was discovered and used by native peoples. Around 1200 B.C. Mesoamerica began to take place with the construction of terraces, canals and various hydraulic works for agriculture and the increase of the

I woke up in the morning, and I brushed my hair, brushed my teeth, ate breakfast, and

Since prehistoric times, cultures the world over have benefited from the hallucinogenic effects, altered states of perception and cognition, for ritual, recreational, spiritual, and healing purposes. Interestingly, archeological evidence of early shamanic use exists in Mesolithic (20,000 BCE – 10,000 BCE) rock paintings located at the ancient North African site of Tassili n'Ajjer in the Sahara Desert. There also exists a long history of psilocybe mushroom use throughout Mesoamerican cultures. Various Pre-Columbian art pieces, including rock carvings and engravings depicting mushroom motifs, have been and are currently unearthed throughout Guatemala. The Aztecs of Central America included “teonanácatl” – the sacred or God mushroom – in their ancient rituals and rites

This is the time i had gotten lost at walmart my mom had went to the bathroom and i had went off to look at the games and my mom had went to the front of the store and looked u there for me. And as i went u to the front she had went to the back to find me she looked for me for about 30 minutes. I had no phone to call her and so i had finally went up to te here to the front and told them that i had lost my mom and they went over the intercom.

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The Maya are an ancient civilization built from an indigenous culture and people that originated in the area that lies in between Mexico and South America called Mesoamerica (Middle America). The Mesoamerican area also included other cultures, such as the Mexica (Aztecs), Mixtec, Purepecha, Huastec, Olmac, Toltec, Zapotec, and Teotihuacan.

Even though it was summer it was still a comfortable morning where it was hot but with a perfect cool breeze.It was a time before my mom and dad had divorced.I ran outside and played barfoot in the grass while my mom and dad fixed up and old garden we had in the corner of our yard.We lived in a small but perfectly cozy house with a basement and my best friend Sasha,Sasha was a beautiful young dog at the time.