How would you describe the worldviews and value systems of the mesoamerican peoples prior to european contact? how did these worldviews impact all aspects of life (science, agriculture, medicine, language, spirituality, origins etc.) for indigenous peoples? be sure to reference specific mesoamerican civilizations covered in the course (olmec, maya, aztec/mexica).

They created so many things, were really and did not needed the European people.

The discovery process of the American continent represented for the Europeans the contact with a very peculiar mosaic of cultures. More than enchanted by the native's passive exoticism, Old World crews ran into complex civilizations. Many of these societies knew writing, developed mathematical systems, had extremely accurate calendars, and built larger urban centers than the cities of Spain.

Around the 7th century, the Andes Mountains were the scene of the development of the chimu, tiahuanaco and huari civilizations. Almost five hundred years later, the gathering of these peoples occupying the region would correspond to the vast Inca Empire, administered in the city of Cuzco. Prior to the arrival of the Spaniards, the Incas formed an expansionist state that reached regions from Ecuador to Chile and was home to about six million people.

In the central portion of the Americas, Olmecs, Toltecs, Teotihuacans, Aztecs, and Mayans formed distinct societies. The Maya, between the 3rd and 11th centuries, established a complex of autonomously functioning city-states through an efficient system of collective servitude. According to information, the Mayan civilization would have congregated more than two million inhabitants. When they arrived in America, the Spanish found most of these abandoned urban centers.

the exact role and status of women in the roman world, and indeed in most ancient societies, has often been obscured by the biases of both ancient male writers and 19-20th century ce male scholars, a situation only relatively recently redressed by modern scholarship which has sought to more objectively assess women's status, rights, duties, representation in the arts, and daily lives; and all this from almost exclusively male source material dealing with a male-dominated roman world.

women in mythology

unlike some other ancient cultures such as the greeks who had formed a creation myth where woman was a creature secondary to man and, more specifically, in the form of pandora, a bringer of unhappiness and vices, the romans had a more neutral approach where humanity, and not specifically the male, was created by the gods from earth and water. ovid's metamorphoses, for example, does not specify whether the first human was a man or a woman. at least in a physical sense then men and women were not regarded as belonging to a different species as in the greek world, a view often reiterated in roman medical treatises.

> la jirafa: the giraffe

> el loro: the parrot

> la tortuga: the turtle

> el cerdo: the pig

> la vaca: the cow

> la araña: the spider

> el tiburón: the shark

> la langosta: the lobster

hope that !