Ancient Mexico/Fusang: Tenochtitlan, pyramids

Invicta, Nov. 29, 2018; Voices of the Past, May 16, 2020; Ancient Cities, June 15, 2014; Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; Crystal Quintero, CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

According to American historian Edward P. Vining (1885), Afghan and Chinese Buddhist missionaries arrived in the Americas, in Mexico in particular, centuries before Columbus (in the 5th century), naming this strange and faraway land "Fusang."

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Tenochtitlan: The Venice of Mesoamerica

(Invicta) The Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan and its amazing features -- massive temples, aqueducts, zoos, aquariums, and more -- were so advanced compared to anything in Europe at that time, the invaders had to destroy it and burn the codices. Aztec history (documentary)

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Bibliography

• Handbook to Life in the Aztec World by Manuel Aguilar-Moreno
• Aztec, Captivating History by Captivating History
• Tenochtitlan by Mark Cartwright
• Tenochtitlan: Centre of the Aztec World by Ian Mursell/Mexicolore
• Water and the Aztec Landscape in the Valley of Mexico by Barbara Mundy
• Aztec pleasure gardens by Ian Mursell/Mexicolore

Aztec perspective on conquest of Mexico

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Giant Pyramids of the Ancient Aztec Empire

(Ancient Cities) Aztec civilization reached its height in the early 16th century. Explore the capital of the empire, Tenochtitlán, home to elaborate yet sacred temples atop gigantic, stepped pyramids.

An Indigenous Peoples' History (Dunbar-Ortiz)

Witness the majesty of this advanced culture of warriors that has been unearthed below what is modern-day Mexico City by the preeminent archeologists of our time.

Mesoamerican pyramids, pyramid-shaped temple structures of various kinds, are an important part of ancient Mesoamerican architecture. These structures were usually step-pyramids with temples on top -- more akin to the ziggurats (terraced block pyramids) of Mesopotamia than to the pyramids of Ancient Egypt.

The Mesoamerican region's largest pyramid by volume -- indeed, the largest pyramid in the world by volume -- is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, in the Mexican state of Puebla.

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The Aztecs, a people with a rich mythology and cultural heritage, dominated Central Mexico in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. Their capital was Tenochtitlan on the shore of Lake Texcoco -- the site of modern-day Mexico City.

They were related to the preceding cultures in the basin of Mexico such as the culture of Teotihuacan, whose building style they adopted and adapted. The Maya (Mayans) are a people of Southern Mexico and northern Central America (Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras, and extreme northern El Salvador) with some 3,000 years of history.

Archeological evidence shows the Maya started to build ceremonial architecture approximately 3,000 years ago. The earliest monuments consisted of simple burial mounds, the precursors to the spectacular stepped pyramids from the Terminal Pre-classic period and beyond.

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These pyramids relied on intricate carved stone in order to create a stair-stepped design. Many of these structures featured a top platform upon which a smaller dedicatory building was constructed, associated with a particular Maya deity.

Maya pyramid-like structures were also erected to serve as a place of interment for powerful rulers. Maya pyramidal structures occur in a great variety of forms and functions, bounded by regional and periodical differences.