Ms. Diane Nicoll 7th Grade History Unit 5: Lesson 5 

Name: Tobey Miner

Date: 3/2/18

Class: 7th Grade - Medieval World History

 
Slides and Notes 
Slide Student Notes

Title  ☆ MesoAmerican Architecture ☆

Describe the Mesoamerican achievements in
Goal 
mathematics and architecture.

Critical Thinking  It can tell you what time period and also what
Question Answer:   resources they had.

The Mayas  
→ Educators, philosophers, and artists
→ Medicine, science, and engineering
→ Monumental architecture, temples and
observations
Same 
→ Advanced calendars based on astronomy
→ Sun, moon, stars, and planets - Solstices and
equinoxes
→ Specific ways to highlight solstices and equinoxes

→ Aztecs and Mayas both had pyramids with temples

Pyramid  on top
→ Not for Inca on for Aztec and Maya

→ Maya temples had 365 steps for the days of the

week
Calendar 
→ Most complex calendar - Twin calendars that
rotated every 52 years

→ Chichen Itza’s El Castillo

→ One of the Mayas largest
Famous Building 
→ City center
→ “Pure”

 
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Ms. Diane Nicoll 7th Grade History Unit 5: Lesson 5 

The Aztecs  
→ Educators, philosophers, and artists
→ Medicine, science, and engineering
→ Monumental architecture, temples and
observations
Same 
→ Advanced calendars based on astronomy
→ Sun, moon, stars, and planets - Solstices and
equinoxes
→ Specific ways to highlight solstices and equinoxes

→ Only ones that standardized education

→ When you were a certain age there was a
curriculum
Education  → Only noble children
→ Ages from 13-14
→ School Options: Military, Astronomy, Philosophy,
Statesmanship, and Engineering

→ Twin Pyramids
Twin Pyramids  → Two temples on top and two ramps (War and Rain)
→ Complex Calendar

→ Tenochtitlan’s Temple Mayor

Famous Building 
→ Twin building

The Incas  
→ Educators, philosophers, and artists
→ Medicine, science, and engineering
→ Monumental architecture, temples and
observations
Same 
→ Advanced calendars based on astronomy
→ Sun, moon, stars, and planets - Solstices and
equinoxes
→ Specific ways to highlight solstices and equinoxes

→ Retaining walls
Walls 
→ Flat platforms to hold all the soil

→ Sophisticated calendar most like our calendar

Calendar  → Had to adjust it every 12 months because they didn’t
have a leap year

 
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Ms. Diane Nicoll 7th Grade History Unit 5: Lesson 5 

→ Machu Picchu’’s Temple of the Sun

Famous Building 
→ Lined with gold in Temple of the Sun

Video 

The Inca, Maya and Aztec civilizations were very

focused on education. The most important thing for
them to learn was astronomy and architecture. The
Video ​LINK​ - Watch  Mayan and Aztecs built a lot of stepped pyramids but
and take the quiz.  the Aztecs had a duel pyramid with two temples. The
Then, write a 5-7  incas instead used huge retaining walls so it gave
sentence summary  them flat ground so they could build their temples and
in the box provided.  other buildings they needed. Even though all three did
a lot in astronomy the Mayans had the most complex
astronomical calendar.

 
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