Ap Human Geography Chapter 3 Summary

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Chapter 3 is about the Late formative and talks about the writing and calendrical systems and gets into more depth of structures of some the civilization structures and paintings. There were two calendrical systems in the Mesoamerican; the 260 day calendar, being the oldest one and important in Mesoamerica, and 365 day calendar. The 260 day calendar is not divided like the current calendar but it is round into twenty different days with names in each day, and had a number of one of thirteen day numbers, so therefore it would take 260 days. In the 365 day calendar would correspond with the solar year in which it would be divided into eighteen months in twenty day each and other five days that was called nameless. Every group of the twenty days …show more content…
Mayas would record many dates approximately up to hundreds in the first millennium. Maya Glyphs would be seen with human figures as names, events, or long passages. The Aztecs also had writings and logographic writing and even though what they had written was good it was as good as the Maya. Monte Alban, a city, was founded in the late Formative in which there was a lot of art and architecture. The Temple of Danzantes, in Monte Alban, were mutilated figures and look like there dancing. Monte Alban tombs created a chronological sequence long into two periods such as Monte Alban I and Monte Alban II. Monte Alban I had simple offerings of ceramics in gray and Monte Alban II the offerings is different because the sculptures were created by animal and human forms. West Mexico was uniquely different than Mesoamerica in development. One of the works from West Mexico was the Capacha complex. In areas of West Mexico, a terracotta dog was a figure that had feet like a dog, small, tail, and with a human face. Places like Nayarit figures were found and were a couple, male and female, placed in tombs and represented marriage buried with the
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