The Legacy of Mesoamerica History and Culture of a Native American Civilization, 2nd Edition

82 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA Figure 2.4 The Temple of Kukulkan at the Postclassic Mayan political center of Mayapán. This e ...

CHAPTER 2 LATE POSTCLASSIC MESOAMERICA 83 Figure 2.5 Postclassic Mayan effigy censer from Mayapan depicting the deity Itzamna. T ...

84 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA artifacts of the northern/eastern sites of Mayapán, Cozumel, and Tulum, and in the Late Postcl ...

CHAPTER 2 LATE POSTCLASSIC MESOAMERICA 85 Figure 2.7 Scenes from the Codex Madrid indicate that hunting and sacrifice of deer we ...

Figure 2.8 Monkey figure from a painted mural at the K’iche’ Mayan capital of Utatlán, Guatemala. Redrawn from The Quiché Mayas ...

CHAPTER 2 LATE POSTCLASSIC MESOAMERICA 87 Several decades before the arrival of the Spaniards, the K’iche’ empire began to break ...

88 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA The Rise of the Aztecs We use the term “Aztec” to refer to the Nahuatl-speaking peoples of hig ...

CHAPTER 2 LATE POSTCLASSIC MESOAMERICA 89 The Mexica, who were to become the dominant polity by the end of the cen- tury, were o ...

90 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA The Aztecs of Central Mexico As we have seen, the Aztecs were heirs to earlier Central Mexican ...

CHAPTER 2 LATE POSTCLASSIC MESOAMERICA 91 Box 2.1 The Mexica Capital Tenochtitlan The Aztec imperial capital Tenochtitlan was fo ...

92 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA Figure 2.12 Central Basin of Mexico, showing the system of dikes and causeways that undergirde ...

CHAPTER 2 LATE POSTCLASSIC MESOAMERICA 93 manufactured exquisite adornments and objects used by the noble class, as well as cons ...

production. These were poor peasants with few independent economic resources or op- portunities. Rural conditions in the Aztec p ...

CHAPTER 2 LATE POSTCLASSIC MESOAMERICA 95 gardens near the cities, obtained essential goods from the central markets. Tribute pa ...

96 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA basin that were subject to imperial authority. In the center of each city-state was constructe ...

CHAPTER 2 LATE POSTCLASSIC MESOAMERICA 97 Figure 2.14 A pictorial portrayal of the political hierarchy, including judges, within ...

98 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA Box 2.3 The Application of Aztec Law to the Crime of Adultery The Aztecs placed great emphasis ...

CHAPTER 2 LATE POSTCLASSIC MESOAMERICA 99 Aztec religion took on a life of its own and influenced developments within the empire ...

100 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA Figure 2.15 Central element of the Aztec calendar stone, denoting the Sun deity, the cyclic c ...

CHAPTER 2 LATE POSTCLASSIC MESOAMERICA 101 versalism associated with abstract creative powers might be seen as an expression on ...