HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mesoamerican Chronology, Isthmian Script, Teotihuacan

• School: York University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 1010
• Professor: Irmgard Steinisch

Document Summary

Note: the lecture mentions that you will be writing papers on teotihuacan: In a previous year students did so, but i changed the assignments for the course for this calendar year. My lecture on teotihuacan is short because i expected students to be writing papers on the city- state, so i have added an additional, optional fun and fantastical documentary on teotihuacan to learn more if you wish. In the archaic period of meso- america, we saw the emergence and growth of broadly similar groups of people living as hunters and gatherers (and even clovis points! Growing corn led to the emergence of urban areas, population density, and non- food- producing specialists, which marked the pre-classic periods. Olmecs appeared as the first distinctive and highly developed civilization (1200- 400 bce), which had a large influence on all of mesoamerica. Zapotec culture followed swiftly after the fall of the.