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The Original Americans The Western Hemisphere, ca. 30,000 BCE-1200 AD

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Page 1: The Original Americans The Western Hemisphere, ca. 30,000 BCE-1200 AD

The Original Americans

The Western Hemisphere, ca. 30,000 BCE-1200 AD

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The Original Americans

Approximately 30,000 years B.C.E.

“Highways” of Migration

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The Paleolithic and Archaic ErasPaleolithic: ca. 35000 BCE to 9000 BCE Hunter-gatherers, nomadic lifestyle

Archaic: Environmental Transitions Domesticated Agriculture Semi-Nomadic & Sedentary Societies

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The Formative Era ca. 2000 years in duration—through 200 AD Types of social organization Early, middle, late Formative period The Olmecs

San Lorenzo La Venta Characteristics Legacy

Peru: Chavín de Hunatar Religious Function

The Decline: after 200 BCE

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Olmec Artifacts

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Monte Albán in the Classic Era

The Zapotecs Relations with

Teotihuacán Social

hierarchy The role of

violence and the military

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Monte Albán

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Monte Albán

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Monte Albán

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“Classic” Era Societies Teotihuacán

The city The population Three types of

empire military commercial cultural &

religious The end of the city

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Teotihuacán

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Teotihuacán

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Teotihuacán—Pyramid of the Sun

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Teotihuacán—Pyramid of the Moon

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Teotihuacán—The Avenue of the Dead

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The Classic Maya

Traits of Maya Civilization Older Perceptions of the Maya Regions and Polities The End of the Classic Era, ca.

900 CE What Happened? Various Theories

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Maya Hieroglyphs

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Maya Hieroglyphs

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Maya Hieroglyph (Detail)

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Chichen Itza

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Chichen Itza

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Chichen Itza

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Palenque

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Palenque

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Palenque (Carving Detail)