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

Name: Eitan Boaz

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.

Tell if they liked building. It told them what resources

Critical Thinking 
they had. I also says how connected they are with
Question Answer:  
their religion.

The Mayas  
Educators, philosophers, and artists
Medecine, science, and engineering
Monumental architecture, temples, and observatories
Same 
Advanced calendars based on astronomy
Sun, moon, stars, and planets - Solstices and
equinoxes

Temples on top of pyramid

Showed Solstices and equinoxes
Pyramid 
Temples the tallest and center of city
Pure step pyramid = no temples connected

Most complex calendar

Calendar 
365 steps

Chichen Itza El Castillo

Mayan Largest
Famous Building 
Pure step pyramid
365 steps
Center of city

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

The Aztecs  
Educators, philosophers, and artists
Medecine, science, and engineering
Monumental architecture, temples, and observatories
Same 
Advanced calendars based on astronomy
Sun, moon, stars, and planets - Solstices and
equinoxes

Standardized education
Noble children stay in school after 13 and 14
Education 
School options military, astronomy, philosophy,
statesmanship, and engineering for higher level

Two temples on top and two ramps (war and rain)

Twin Pyramids 
Complex calendar

Tenochtitlan Temple Mayor

Famous Building 
Mexico city

The Incas  
Educators, philosophers, and artists
Medecine, science, and engineering
Monumental architecture, temples, and observatories
Same 
Advanced calendars based on astronomy
Sun, moon, stars, and planets - Solstices and
equinoxes

Retaining walls= flat platforms of raised earth

Walls  Different architecture because of geography
Perfect cutting - stones no room to budge

12 month calendar - adjusted every winter (no leap

Calendar  year)
Most like our calendar

Machu Picchu’s Temple of the Sun

Famous Building 
Walls lined with gold

Video 

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

In central and southern america there was the aztecs,

Video ​LINK​ - Watch  mayans, and the incas. They all highly valued
and take the quiz.  education, so they were all well advanced. Each
Then, write a 5-7  civilization had a lot of philosophers and engineers.
sentence summary  The aztecs made it so you had to go to education. All of
in the box provided.  the civilizations were focused on astronomy and
architecture.
 

 
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