FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
For your final exam I will post several infoGRAPHICS like the one below.
All are important to review and study for the final exam.
All are important to review and study for the final exam.
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STUDY MAYA TRADE MAP for exam

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TEST 6 Study Guide - Maya Astronomy
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MAYA SCIENCE: Astronomy + mathematics + calendars
Video: Ancient Maya Tools of Astronomy (click image below to view)
Click on image above to see images from the Hubble space telescope
MAYA WORLDVIEW 12 PAGE BOOK
POPUL VUH
The title translates as "Book of the Community", literally as "Book of the People". Popol Vuh's prominent features are its creation myth, its epic tales of the Hero Twins Hunahpú and Xbalanqué,. Popol Vuh encompasses a range of subjects that includes creation, ancestry, history, and cosmology.
HERO TWINS
Hunahpu and his brother were conceived when their mother Xquic, daughter of one of the lords of Xibalba, spoke with the severed head of their father Hun. The skull spat upon the maiden's hand, which caused the twins to be conceived in her womb. Xquic sought out Hun Hunahpu's mother, who begrudgingly took her as a ward after setting up a number of trials to prove her identity
Five Gods of the Maya Pantheon
Itzamna The ruler of the heavens and of day and night, he was often shown in Mayan art as a pleasant, toothless old man with a large nose. He was also identified as the son of the creator god Hunab Ku.
MAIZE god (or "first father”)- Several theories, with varying degrees of ethnographic support, have been formulated to account for episodes such as the maize deity's resurrection from a turtle, his canoe voyage, and his transformation into a cacao tree. Many scholars believe that the resurrected maize god of the classic period corresponds to the father of the hero twins in the Popol Vuh called Hun-Hunahpu.
Kinich Ahau was the Mayan god of the sun. Every morning he would bring the sun up for the Mayans and every night bring it down
Chac is the name of the Maya rain deity. With his lightning axe, Chaac strikes the clouds and produces thunder and rain
Ix Chel – Maya fertility goddess. Also goddess of childbirth and moon.
Kukulkan (Yucatec Maya) - Plumed Serpent; god of wind, priests, merchants, and the link between the earth and the sky.
Mythology can refer to the collected myths of a group of people—their collection of stories they tell to explain nature, history, and customs—or to the study of such myths. As a collection of explanatory stories, mythology is a vital feature of every culture.
MAYA WORLDVIEW
The Popol Vuh (sacred book of the community) narrates the Maya creation story, the tales of the Hero Twins, and the account of the creation of the sky, the Earth, and all life.
(click image below to see video)
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Click on image below to read ARTICLE about Maya Cave Rituals
Ancient maya society and power
TEST 3 STUDY GUIDE - maya survival (a look at agriculture)

maya_survival_study_guide_2017.pdf |
TEST 2 STUDY GUIDE - Origins
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ORIGINS of civilization in the americas
MIGRATION TO THE AMERICAS
DOWNLOAD STUDY GUIDE FOR TEST1 BELOW

test 1 study guide |
The Great Story of Time and People
(create a small 5.5 x 8.5 inch booklet - hand drawn/ illustrating the ideas outlined below)
Part 1 - LIKE A HISTORIAN
Thinking Like a Historian, Questioning, Gathering Evidence, Interpretation, Primary Sources, Secondardy Sources, Cause and Effect, Using the Past, Through Their Eyes, Turning Point, Change and Continuity
Part 2 - EVOLUTION
Evolution, Natural Selection, Bacteria, Mammals, Primates, Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Homo Sapians
Part 3 - HUMAN ORIGINS
Lucy (Australopithecus), The Real Eve (Home Sapian Sapian), Olduvai Gorge, East Africa, Human Origins,
Part 4 - BIRTHPLACE OF HUMANITY
Out of Africa Migration, Asia, Australia, Europe, New World (Americas), Stone Age, Iron Age, Agriculture in Africa
Part 5 - ERAS OF LIFE
Foraging (250,000BCE to 800zBCE), Agrarian (8000BCE – 1750CE, Modern (1750CE to NOW), What makes us Human? (standardization of artefacts, Jewelery, Transport of stone, Prey selectivity, storage in ceramics, homes, art, shaping organic materials, econonomics
Part 6 - AGRARIAN CHANGES
Origins of Agriculture 8000BCE, the Fertile Nile, Climate Change, expansion of Sahara, Domestication of Animals
Part 7 - TOWARD CIVILIZATION
Civilization: population growth, specialized work, centralized power, surplus, progress in science, religion, writing, surplus (trade), rise of early civilization in Africa, Nubia 2000 BCE, Kerma, Darfuffa,
Part 8 - WEST AFRICAN EMPIRES
West African Empires: Ghana, Mali and Songhay (400 – 1600 AD/ or CE)
(create a small 5.5 x 8.5 inch booklet - hand drawn/ illustrating the ideas outlined below)
Part 1 - LIKE A HISTORIAN
Thinking Like a Historian, Questioning, Gathering Evidence, Interpretation, Primary Sources, Secondardy Sources, Cause and Effect, Using the Past, Through Their Eyes, Turning Point, Change and Continuity
Part 2 - EVOLUTION
Evolution, Natural Selection, Bacteria, Mammals, Primates, Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Homo Sapians
Part 3 - HUMAN ORIGINS
Lucy (Australopithecus), The Real Eve (Home Sapian Sapian), Olduvai Gorge, East Africa, Human Origins,
Part 4 - BIRTHPLACE OF HUMANITY
Out of Africa Migration, Asia, Australia, Europe, New World (Americas), Stone Age, Iron Age, Agriculture in Africa
Part 5 - ERAS OF LIFE
Foraging (250,000BCE to 800zBCE), Agrarian (8000BCE – 1750CE, Modern (1750CE to NOW), What makes us Human? (standardization of artefacts, Jewelery, Transport of stone, Prey selectivity, storage in ceramics, homes, art, shaping organic materials, econonomics
Part 6 - AGRARIAN CHANGES
Origins of Agriculture 8000BCE, the Fertile Nile, Climate Change, expansion of Sahara, Domestication of Animals
Part 7 - TOWARD CIVILIZATION
Civilization: population growth, specialized work, centralized power, surplus, progress in science, religion, writing, surplus (trade), rise of early civilization in Africa, Nubia 2000 BCE, Kerma, Darfuffa,
Part 8 - WEST AFRICAN EMPIRES
West African Empires: Ghana, Mali and Songhay (400 – 1600 AD/ or CE)
Study Guide TEST 5

study_guide_test_5_–_african_and_maya_history.pdf |
CIVILIZATION IN AFRICA - NUBIA
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AFRICAN EMPIRES/ CIVILIZATION PROJECT
AGRICULTURE IN NORTH EAST AFRICA + IRON
Special Area of focus: THE FERTILE NILE VALLEY
TEST 3 - STUDY GUIDE (1A, 1B, 1C )

test 3 study guide |
STONE, AGRICULTURE + IRON - slideshow

AFRICA stone, agriculture and iron.pdf |
Paul Salopek (born February 9, 1962, in is an American journalist and writer. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. In January 2013, Salopek embarked on the "Out of Eden Walk", a seven-year walk along one of the routes taken by early humans to migrate out of Africa, a transcontinental foot journey that will cover more than 20,000 miles funded by the National Geographic Society.
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HUMAN ORIGINS - Stone Age + Migration (Out of Africa)
STUDY GUIDE TEST 2

test_2_study_guide.docx |
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STUDY GUIDE TEST 1

study_guide_test_1.docx |
EVOLUTION
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NATURAL SELECTION |
WHAT IS HISTORY? THE HISTORICAL PROCESS
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