HST 202 Lecture Notes - Mound Builders, Unification Church, Hohokam
Document Summary
National museum of the american indian (nmai): beautiful building opened in 2004, offers diverse stories operated by different people groups that constantly rotate exhibits, man collected around 700,000 artifacts for the smithsonian collection which constitutes. 85% of it: turned back over in 1989 to native americans so that people who have rightful family ownership to objects can reclaim them, focuses on contemporary culture, not the history. Olmec: had a huge trading network, pioneers of many ideas which societies following them built upon. Maya: followed the olmec, culturally advanced, reached dominance in present day mexico/yucatan peninsula, developed calendars more accurate than the european ones, had a mathematical system that included zero. Toltec: took over maya in 1000bc, mysteriously retreated and abandoned their cities to live in smaller surrounding populations. Aztec: rose up after the toltec, capitol city of tenochtitlan was the largest in the world with a population of 300,000.
