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Teaching American History Summer Seminar

Teaching American History Summer Seminar. Session 1 – Ancient America and the Maya Empire. Session 2 – The Inca. Session Three - Ancient Mexico and the Aztec Empire. Session Four - Medieval Spain and the Age of Discovery.

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Teaching American History Summer Seminar

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  1. Teaching American History Summer Seminar

  2. Session 1 – Ancient America and the Maya Empire

  3. Session 2 – The Inca

  4. Session Three - Ancient Mexico and the Aztec Empire

  5. Session Four - Medieval Spain and the Age of Discovery

  6. Session Five – Exploration, Discovery, Conquest and the Columbian Exchange

  7. Humans in the Western Hemisphere

  8. 40,000 BC – 9000 BC

  9. 9000 BC

  10. 5000 BC

  11. 1000 BC

  12. The Diversity of Pre-Colombian America

  13. 1492 - Carib and Arawak

  14. The Maya, 100 BC – 900 AD

  15. Maya – the great “cultural” achievers of Ancient America

  16. Palenque

  17. Uxmal

  18. Bonampak

  19. Dzibilchaltún

  20. Mathematicians

  21. Libraries, Archives plundered

  22. Social, Political Organization

  23. Commerce

  24. Currency

  25. Taxation and Tribute

  26. Maya Religion

  27. Maya Concept of Time

  28. Highly advanced and sophisticated, but used Stone Age technology

  29. Also, no beasts of burden

  30. Maya decline – 700 AD • Disease • Warfare • Competition between rivals • Environmental exhaustion

  31. Maya decline • Prosperity and the growth of the nobility • Warfare, drought, famine and disease affect common population • Expectations of the nobility don’t change • Rise of social discontent among the masses • Malnutrition, sickness, social tension = collapse by 900 AD

  32. The Maya in 1492

  33. Lesson Planning Collaboration and Session Two

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