1. HUM 2461 Humanities of Latin America SFC Fall 2014 Week 4

2. By Culture Olmeca Teotihuacanos Tolteca Azteca Pre-Aztec/Aztec Chronology

3. Tabasco Teotihuacán Tula Tenochtitlán Pre-Aztec/Aztec Chronology By Town

4. Pre-Aztec/Aztec Dates 1400 – 300 BCE 100 BCE - 750 900 - 1200 1300 - 1521 By years

5. Pre-Aztecs (English) 3 Peoples Olmecs (1400 BCE – 300 BCE) teotihuacanos (100 BCE – 750) Toltecs (900 – 1100) Cuicuilco

6. Pre-Azteca (español) 3 Pueblos olmeca (1400 BCE – 300 BCE) teotihuacanos (100 BCE – 750) tolteca (900 – 1100) Cuicuilco

7. Aztec Architecture & Religion  Teotihuacan Culture 100BCE – 750CE  Toltec Culture 900CE – 1200CE  Aztec Civilization 1300CE – 1519 (1521) CE

8. Cuicuilco (600 BCE – 450 BCE) TEOTIHUACANOS Cuicuilco Xitle Volcano

9. Teotihuacan

10. Moon Pyramid Street of the Dead Sun Pyramid Feathered Serpent Pyramid

11. Characteristics of the Architecture in Teotihuacan Teotihuacan I: Classic style Teotihuacan II: Baroque style

12. Teotihuacan I & II (100BCE-750CE) Cuicuilco (origins / volcano Xitlé) Teotihuacan I: Classic style (?) 3 Pyramids (Sun, Moon, Quetzalcóatl [ciudadela]) Street of the Dead 250,000 pop.  Chinampas

13. Teotihuacan Teotihuacan II: Street of the Dead 300,000 pop. Baroque style (?) Ferocity

14. Teotihuacán I: Classic Style  Sober adornment  Elegant / clear decoration  Optimism  No fear of open spaces  Preoccupation with organized civilization  Simple, harmonious style

15. Pyramid of the Moon Teotihuacan I

16. Pyramid of the Sun Teotihuacan I

17. Teotihuacán II: Baroque Style  Strong adornment  Extreme decoration  Pessimism  horror vacui  Preoccupation with death  Extravagant rhetoric and metaphors

18. Temple of Quetzalcóatl Teotihuacan II

20. God Quetzalcóatl

21. God Tláloc

23. Baroque Classical (mostly) opposite style and content of …

24. Mesoamerican Civilization  Teotihuacan Culture 100BCE – 750CE  Toltec Culture 900CE – 1200CE  Aztec Civilization 1300CE – 1519 (1521) CE

25. Toltecs 900-1200 CE Tula (North of Teotihuacan) 968: Topiltzin Quetzalcóatl Atlantes (knight warriors)

26. 968Quetzalcóatl to Tula defeated by war priest-god 1000Quetzalcóatl from Tula to Chichén Itzá Kukulkán (in Maya language) did same for Mayan capital defeated by war priest-god 1025Quetzalcóatl from Chichén Itzá on boat sailed east promised to return similar in Popol Vuh Tezcatlipoca A legend: Topiltzin Quetzacóatl (968 – 1025)

27. Mesoamerican Civilization  Teotihuacan Culture 100BCE – 750CE  Toltec Culture 900CE – 1200CE  Aztec Civilization 1300CE – 1519 (1521) CE

28. Chronicles of The Conquest of New Spain “When we saw so many cities and villages built in the water and other great towns on dry land we were amazed and said that it was like the enchantments (...) on account of the great towers and cues and buildings rising from the water, and all built of masonry. And some of our soldiers even asked whether the things that we saw were not a dream? (...) I do not know how to describe it, seeing things as we did that had never been heard of or seen before, not even dreamed about. ” Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New SpainBernal Díaz del Castillo