Humanities 1B Lindahl American Civilization before 1491 and the European Conquest The Americas before Conquest The old story and the new story, Charles Mann’s 1491 The “pristine myth” and the tradition of the “primitive” Indian Migration from Asia (30,000-12,000 BCE) Early MesoAmerica Agriculture and the development of Maize Olmecs (1300-600 BCE) Teotihuacán (100-650 CE), Toltecs, Quetzalcoatl & Tezcatlipoca Mayan Civilization (250 BCE - 1000 CE) Mythology, death and the Wacah Chan The Yucatán peninsula, Tikal, Palenque The Quiché Maya and the Popul Vuh Creation stories, Writing The Ball Game (Ulama) [Tlachtli (Aztec), Pok-a-tok (Maya)] The Calendar (why there was no impending apocalypse in 2012) Tzolk’in – the 260 day sacred calendar Quetzalcoatl pictured in human and Haab – the 365 day seasonal calendar (nemontemi) serpent form from Codex Borbonicus The Long Count – 5126 year linear calendar (+ another: the Alautun [much longer]) The return of Bolon Yokte’ K’uh on December 21, 2012 The Eagle and the Nopal Cactus Mexitin, Mexica, Lake Texcoco, Tenochtitlán Aztec empire (1350-1521 CE) Temples, War and Human Sacrifice Peru - Moche (200-700 CE), Inca (1300-1530 CE) Machu Picchu Writing – the khipu or quipu Spanish Conquest of the New World Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) - The Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, The Dominican Republic, Venezuala Hernán Cortés (1485-1547) encounters the Aztecs 1519-21 Moteuczoma II (Montezuma) Francisco Pizarro (1471-1541) Atawallpa and the battle of Cajamarca, 1532 North America Cahokia, Illinois Depiction of Aztec human sacrifice The expedition of Hernando de Soto, 1539 from the Florentine Codex The story of the Mayflower, 1620 Tisquantum (Squanto) and the settlement at Plymouth (Patuxet) and the first Thanksgiving Florentine Codex – “General History of the Things of New Spain” – Bernardo de Sahagún The debate between Bartolomé de las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (1550’s) Administration of the Spanish Empire The "New World" and European Domination Pictured: cycles and periods of the Mayan calendar. Right: Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca .