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    Tikal Speech

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    magnificent maya city, Tikal, here in Tikal we are truly accepting to tourists and will treat as if you were royalty. Tikal is one of largest and most prosperous cities in all of the maya civilization. Tikal has about 60,000 people and counting. Tikal is located in the El Peten rainforest in the southern lowlands of the maya civilization. Tikal has many splendid sites for you to see and experience. We hope you will come to experience the wonders of the maya civilization here in Tikal. Art & Architecture

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    Tikal Temple Analysis

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    The Tikal is an ancient temple that is located in Guatemala there are many, many version of the ancient Tikal temple but the temple I have presented is between the third to twentieth one .Here is an example of a couple of some standards Standard 1: Tikal Nationwide botanical gardens is a outstanding sample of the image and humanoid mastermind of the Maya. It's riches of architectural also creative tongues

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    Photo 1: Tikal Temple I This temple was one of the major structures at Tikal. Tikal is one of the largest cities during the Mayan civilization. This temple is also known as the Temple of the Great Jaguar. It was called this because it shows a king sitting upon a jaguar throne. This specific temple was limestone pyramid structure. It was created around 732 AD. This building was created on the east side of the Great Plaza in Tikal. The structure was a funerary temple for a ruler during the classical

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    Tikal Temple Country/Culture: Guatemala, Mayan Time Period: Early Classic to Late Classic - 300-850 CE. Temple Type: Mayan Civilization Description: Tikal is the ruins of an ancient city found in a rainforest in Guatemala. Cultural Context: The name Guatemala, signifying "place that is known for timberlands," was gotten from one of the Mayan vernaculars talked by the indigenous individuals at the season of the Spanish triumph in 1523. It is utilized today by pariahs, and additionally by most subjects

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “the sky is the daily bread of the eyes.” Emerson was a transcendentalist, transcendentalism came with a deep connection with nature from which this quote seems to be inspired. It can also be inferred that this quote has connections with the lord’s prayer, as Emerson was very religious. The lord’s prayer even states, “give us this day our daily bread” showing that God gave us necessities like food. By restating this in his essays, Emerson connects the sky with the

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    Tikal Summary

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    city-state of Tikal were known to eclipse all rivals, becoming the most populous polity in the Americas. As many as 62,000 Maya nobles, artisans, and others squeezed into Tikal’s crowded residential districts in what is now Guatemala. During the century that followed, however, Tikal fell on hard times. Its building boom collapsed, its artists ceased to carve hieroglyphic inscriptions and paint murals, population plummeted, and its kings vanished. The author in this article argues that Tikal was not alone

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    The Maya Tikal

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    maya live over 2,300 years ago and farmed hunted and many amazing things. Tikal was a large maya city. They did human sacrifices for their gods they captured the humans from other city state they had war with. They learned how to clear thick brush and cut down trees and burned dead brush to make fields for farming the ash from the fire made great nutrients for the ground. They grew corn and squash and many other plants. Tikal was one of the largest Maya cities there was 60,000 people who lives there

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    The Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas are all big groups of people that used have roamed the lands of earth. They all have a specific location, time period, capital, economy, religion, social system, government and technology. First we are going to start with the 3 group’s location, time periods, and the capitals. The Maya’s location is in southern Mexico. For example; Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and El. They like to live in rainforest and dry lowlands. There cities have many buildings like house made out

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    In the second article, “Sports, Gambling, and Government: America’s First Social Compact?” Hill and Clark’s subject is the Mesoamerican ballgame as it relates to the development of government. Although, Hill and Clark do provide some primary images and sources, it is not strictly a biographical article. Because the text mainly focuses on the collection of data an evidence of the first forms of Maya government as well as the first ballcourt, the authors are interpreting and characterizing the subject

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    As seen with archeological evidence, ball courts are undoubtedly planted all throughout Mesoamerican territories. Taube’s paper compares Mesoamerican societies to the Hohokam culture of the American Southwest. From previous research conduced from other scholars, it is universally known the ballgame and the courts themselves held influential power; holding ritualistic meaning, and ceasing issues between political and economic disputes. In particular, Taube argues what seems to be an anomaly. Unlike

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