RE100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jacobo Árbenz, Mesoamerican Chronology, Maya Religion
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Re100 unit 5: coninuity and contacts (mesoamerica) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Generalized as the classic period for all of mesoamerica: end period. When people stopped making monuments/stopping dating their monuments (cid:1) Poopol wuuj the k"ichee" book of counsel. The creation of the world by dualistic beings. In terms of both geographic area and population, guatemala is the largest country in central america. Over 98% of the indigenous population is maya. 75% of the population lives in poverty; 60% of those are in extreme poverty. Guatemala has the most concentrated, inequitable distribution of wealth in the americas. The expropriations have sped up since the peace accords in 1996, through both old-fashioned tactics and new, more complicated and concealed schemes. Most of the major exports are land-intensive, and use the same lands that the poor would otherwise use for subsistence farming. Convinced the vatican to have priests expelled from china by communists in 1948 re-assigned in guatemala.
