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

Name: Asher Thomas

Date: March 2, 2018

Class: 7th Grade - Medieval World History

 
Slides and Notes 
Slide Student Notes

Title  ☆ MesoAmerican Architecture ☆

Describe the Mesoamerican achievements in
Goal 
mathematics and architecture.

It can have writing on it explaining anything about

the culture. Said what resources they had. Explain
Critical Thinking  stuff about religion. They can carbondate the
Question Answer:   resources. Say their version of beauty. Could show
what they think the world is like. Could show
language if hieroglyphics on walls.

The Mayas  
1. Educators, philosophers, and artists
2. Medicine, science, and engineering
3. Monumental architecture, temples, and
observatories
Same 
4. Advanced calendars based on astronomy
5. Sun, moon, stars, and planets
a. They did stuff for solstices and equinoxes
but they did different things

● One temple on top of pyramid

Pyramid  ● Always the tallest building
● Pure step pyramid meaning 365 steps

● Most complex calendar - Twin calendars that

Calendar 
rotated every 52 years

Famous Building  Chichen Itza’s El Castillo

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

1. Educators, philosophers, and artists

2. Medicine, science, and engineering
3. Monumental architecture, temples, and
Same  observatories
4. Advanced calendars based on astronomy
5. Sun, moon, stars, and planets - Solstices and
equinoxes

● Certain age means certain curriculum.

● Noble children could stay in school after the age
of 13 or 14
Education 
● School options for male noble children: military,
astronomy, philosophy, statesmanship, and
engineering

● Two temples on top and two ramps (war and

rain)
Twin Pyramids 
● Two temples so that deities that lived in the
temples could work together.

Tenochtitlan’s Temple Mayor:

● Located in Mexico City
Famous Building 
● Tenochtitlan is the city
● Name is “Temple Mayor”

The Incas  
1. Educators, philosophers, and artists
2. Medicine, science, and engineering
3. Monumental architecture, temples, and
Same  observatories
4. Advanced calendars based on astronomy
5. Sun, moon, stars, and planets - Solstices and
equinoxes

● Based on high mountain peaks

● Retaining walls = flat platforms of raised earths
Walls  ● Made perfect cutting on the walls so that there
can't be room for rocks to move so there can't be
mudslides

● 12 month calendar
Calendar  ● Calendar adjusted every winter
● There's no 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 
●

Video 

In Mesoamerica the 3 greatest civilisations were the

Video ​LINK​ - Watch  Aztecs, the Maya, and the Inca. One thing they all
and take the quiz.  valued was education. Also the three cultures valued
Then, write a 5-7  Astronomy and architecture. With architecture the
sentence summary  Mayans and Aztecs made huge stone step pyramids.
in the box provided.  With astronomy they made calendars that helped
with farming.
 

 
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