PRE-COLOMBIAN
"The pre-Columbian era incorporates all period subdivisions in the history and prehistory of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the American continents." Technically this refers to the era before Christopher Columbus.However, usually it includes the history of American cultures until they were conquered Europeans, even if it happened after Columbus
Topic: Mayan Pyramids of Chichen Itza , see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyvw6G9Max0 -- Also see http://www.sacredsites.com/americas/mexico/chichen_itza.html , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichen_Itza,
Why I chose this topic is because when I was watching the video I really enjoyed the art and scriptures all it. I saw it as beautiful.
Three interesting facts about this monument would include:
1. The earliest artifacts were found to date between AD 1 to 250, it is most likely that this place was settled way earlier than that. "Proto-Mayan tribes had inhabited the flat limestone plateau that makes up much of the Yucatan peninsula for at least 8000 years."
2. They used to think the city was occupied several times by various groups of people, beginning with the Maya and ending with Toltec invaders from the city of Tula in central Mexico. After much research they now know that the Maya occupied Chichen Itza continuously.
3. In the famous "Cenote Sagrado" the Maya sacrificed objects and human beings into the cenote as a form of worship to the Maya rain god Chaac.
All cites listed above are credible because the video I chose was given by the instructor, and all of the websites that I researched had information that was very similar to wikipedia.
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