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Ms. Diane Nicoll 7th Grade History Unit 5: Lesson 5 

Name: Malia Malden

Date: 3/2/18

Class: 7th Grade - Medieval World History


 
Slides and Notes 
Slide Student Notes

Title  ☆ MesoAmerican Architecture ☆


Describe the Mesoamerican achievements in
Goal 
mathematics and architecture.

Critical Thinking  It can tell you what time period or what resources
Question Answer:   they had.

The Mayas  
Educators, philosophers, and artists. Medicine, science, and
engineering. Monumental architecture, temples, and
Same  observatories. Advanced calendars based on astronomy. Sun,
moon, stars, and planets - Solstices and equinoxes.

Pyramids with temples on top section. Temples were city centers


Pyramid  and tallest. There was 365 steps.

Calendar  Twin calendars that rotated every 52 years.

Famous Building  Chichen Itza’s El Castillo largest temple. City center and pure.

The Aztecs  
Educators, philosophers, and artists. Medicine, science, and
engineering. Monumental architecture, temples, and
Same  observatories. Advanced calendars based on astronomy. Sun,
moon, stars, and planets - Solstices and equinoxes.

Standardized Education.​ ​Noble children could stay in school after


Education  the age of 13 or 14. School options: military, astronomy,
philosophy, statesmanship, and engineering.

Two temples on top and two ramps. War and rain gods were at
Twin Pyramids  the top of the pyramid.

 
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Ms. Diane Nicoll 7th Grade History Unit 5: Lesson 5 

Famous Building  Tenochtitlan’s Temple Mayor, located in mexico city.

The Incas  
Educators, philosophers, and artists. Medicine, science, and
engineering. Monumental architecture, temples, and
Same  observatories. Advanced calendars based on astronomy. Sun,
moon, stars, and planets - Solstices and equinoxes.

Retaining walls are flat platforms of raised earth. Perfect


Walls  cutting-stones no room to budge.

Calendar  Calender of 12 months-adjusted every winter(no leap year).

Machu Picchu’s Temple of the Sun, had lined walls made with
Famous Building  gold.

Video 

Two of the most important achievements are


astronomy and architecture. The Inca had a complex
calender of 12 months, but it did not have a leap year,
so it had to be adjusted every winter. The Mayan had
Video ​LINK​ - Watch 
twin calendars of 365 days and 260 days,based on the
and take the quiz. 
sun and moon respectively, intersected every 52
Then, write a 5-7 
years, called the round count. For measurements of
sentence summary 
time greater than 52 years, the maya looked to the
in the box provided. 
long count calendar. A stepped pyramid is a pyramid
built up by stacking levels of continually smaller
platforms. A monumental architecture is a
architecture built to a massive scale or size.
 

 
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