OLMEC CULTURE

     OLMEC 

   CULTURE

 Justification:

It is a very important culture in ancient times because this is known as the mother culture as it was one of the first to emerge and has left its mark on the history of Mexico, so the reason for this study because the interest arises to know because it is called mother culture, inquiring about their lifestyle, their intelligence and the study of astrology despite the shortage of technology, among many other unknowns that arise from this study.

General objetive

Inquire about the past of our Mexico through one of its major Mesoamerican cultures, the Olmec culture, and so clear some doubts about this culture through study to learn how influenced

Mexico today or change in prehispanic Mexico contrast

to contemporary Mexico.

  Specific objectives:

* Know the history of the Olmec culture, as well as its location, its traditions, gods, food, etc.

* We will know a bit more about the history of ancient Mexico

* We will know if science existed previously or from when.

* Know the difference of religions in this culture and now.

* Learn important things to know this culture.

 

The  Olmecs

The Olmec, whose name means "country of the rubber" (the Aztec ulli, rubber or rubber)

Its splendor glory is dated from about 1500 to 900 BC. His central area occupied about 18,000 km2, in the swampy forests of river basins of the Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco

Olmec’s were very intelligent, learned to observe the sky and established a calendar precise that contemplated the duration of the year, the lunar month, the agricultural cycle and the dates of religious ceremonies that they performed.

They had a system of hieroglyphic and ideographic writing.

The Olmec culture was considered the mother culture, due to advances in various sciences had and shared with other cultures, including highlighted:

*Mathematics, astrology and architecture.

 

Most notable is that many of the buildings were made of mud.

The Olmecs were organized into tribes led by a single chief named Chichimecatl.

His government was theocratic, because they were run by priests.

They worked the clay, jade and stone in wonderful shape. Small figures carved from jade, to huge rocks in which sculpted stone heads, altars and columns carved in rocks.

Among his major works are of course the monumental stone heads   weighing more than  Forty tons, carved boulders and whose faces have negroid features, full

Cheeks, almond eyes, wide nose and full lips and large. All in their heads as helmets Whit ear protectors

OLMEC  CENTERS

Population centers and major political power of the Olmec culture were: San Lorenzo, La Venta and Tres Zapotes.

SAN LORENZO

The earliest recorded Olmec center is the San Lorenzo (1150 B.C.E. about) Texistepec municipality located in Coatzacoalcos River basin, in the state of Veracruz

LA VENTA

It was the most important ceremonial center of the Olmec

It has the oldest pyramid in Mesoamerica and found the colossal hads and thrones. It is believed he could get to hold up to 18,000 inhabitants

TRES ZAPOTES

The ceremonial center of Tres Zapotes was the last to develop. It is best known  because it was the one that survived until a time closer, but Olmec civilization that developed here was a culture al ready in decline, not lived in splendor above the ceremonial centers.

RELIGION

The center of their religion is the worship of the jaguar. It is not known what kind of God could be. It is believed  what could to be the origin of the rain god.
There are many animals considered gods, as the alligator, frogs and reptiles.
The mountains for  the Olmecs are the link between the heaven with the earth and the underworld and were also the place where were the ancestors and the spirits of the earth, the rain and the underworld.

GODS

Jaguar:

The jaguar represents the Earth and the Snake represents the water.

Quetzalcoatl:

 Feathered snake

God of the rain, the weather and the corn. He  was represented  as a feathered snake.                                                      

Huehueteotl:
old God
The old god, god of the fire, every 52 years the Olmecs performed  a ceremony for to light the fire again, of this form they  symbolized  the end or beginning of a new year or period.They thought that had another life after of  this

 

FEEDING

Between the plants that consumed found numerous fruit trees as the  guava and the  sapodilla.

Between the animals that were served for food were the possums, monkeys, turkeys, deer, tapirs, wild turkeys, fish, shellfish and waterfowl.

CONCLUSION

http://lalupa3.webcindario.com/culturas/los%20olmecas.htm

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmeca

 http://www.redmexicana.com/civilizacionesprecolombinas/olmecas.asp

http://www.historiacultural.com/2010/01/cultura-olmeca-mesoamerica-mexico.html

High school CETis 43,Xochitepec,Morelos.
Team members:                    

*Yesenia Antonio López
*Rocío García Montalvo              
*Fany Araceli Luna Hernández
*Jessica Yuridia Rodríguez MondragónTeacher: Eduardo Aguirre

THIRD PART

 Grade and group: 5° “A”

Matter: EnglishV

23 th November 2012

GREEK CULTURE

             High  School

              CETis N° 43

INTRODUCTION

JUSTIFICATION

Because culture is a very broad and interesting because is it in this philosophy flourished and from there emerged some giving more importance to science of mathematics hence de reason for the iinvestigation .

OBJECTIVE GENERAL

Inquire about the past of greece to leam about the origin of philosophy, mathematics, the olympics etc. And also at the same time  to know why Greece today.

SPECIFIC    OBJETIVES

Know the origin of philosophy and pecursores this.

The location of Greece as well as their customs, tradition, languaje, among other

Know that science  originated in Greece

Learn things relevant to this culture we do not know

Greek or Hellenic culture

The origins of Greek civilization would be on the island of Crete, southeast of the Peloponnese, from 2100 to. c. approximately

thus passed the ancient polis become metropolis (city mother) of new cops.

Greek culture is located in the Balkan peninsula (Europe) promoting this territory Greeks to create a culture drenched Mediterranean sea

Athena and represented mainly by the Athenians, respects are:

a) focus their thoughts in man and in the world around him, who were engaged in it are called philosophers (lovers of truth), include:

* Socrates (preached self knowledge and practice of virtue) 

Platon (the truth is in the ideas and the idea is the most precious good)

Aristotle (the truth is in the outside world and man must use reason to find it).

Other thinkers are:

Pythagoras (Pythagorean theorem)

Archimedes (Archimedes' principle)

           Tales (Theorem The Tales)

Herodtoo Father of History

           Hippocrates the father of medicine

GODS

The Greeks believed that the gods had chosen Mount Olympus (a region of Greece called Thessaly) as their residence. On Olympus formed an organized society in terms of power.

ZEUS

He is the god of heaven, in Greek mythology, is the greatest god of the Olympian. Governs establishing order, justice and destiny of the universe. Homer says it was in Ida, and was the youngest son of the Titan Cronus and titánida Rhea and brother of the deities: Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter and Hera.

Hera

Queen of the gods, the daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea, sister and wife of Zeus. The goddess of marriage and protector of married women, as was the lawful wife of Zeus, that the naturally became the protector of married women. She is portrayed as jealous, violent and vengeful. She was the mother of Ares, god of war, Hephaestus, god of fire, of Hebe, goddess of youth, and Ilithyia, goddess of childbirth. Hera is often identified with the Roman goddess Juno.

Athena

Goddess of Wisdom, is the inventor of the flute, the trumpet, the plow, the yoke for oxen, the car, the boat and the crock pot cooking. She also taught mortals numbers and instructed to the women in the kitchen the fabric and yarn. She is the goddess who was born as an adult, the result of the union of Zeus and Metis, the goddess of wisdom. She was the favorite daughter of Zeus. He entrusted his shield, adorned with the hideous head of the Gorgon Medusa, its 'aegis' and Ray, his main weapon. Virgin goddess, was called Parthenos ("virgin").

Aphrodite

Goddess of love and beauty. The Greek goddess of love, who is known in Latin mythology by the name of Venus. In Homer's Iliad appears as the daughter of Zeus and Dione. Aphrodite is the wife of Hephaestus, the lame and ugly god of fire.

Poseidon

Sea god, son of the Titan Cronos and Rea Titaness, and brother of Zeus and Hades. He had numerous other love affairs, especially with nymphs of springs and fountains, and fathered several children famed for their wildness and cruelty, among them the giant Orion and the Cyclops Polyphemus.

Dionisius  

God of wine and pleasure, was among the most popular gods. The Greeks devoted many festivals this earthly god, and in some regions became as important as Zeus. He often accompanied by a host of fantastic gods including satyrs, centaurs and nymphs. Satyrs were creatures with goat legs and upper body of a monkey or human.

Food in ancient Greece

The diet of the ancient Greeks was characterized by its frugality, reflecting difficult conditions in Greek agriculture. It is based on the "Mediterranean triad": wheat, olive oil and wine.

In the antique Greece the fork was unknown was eaten with fingers.

                                                           The official languaje is the…

 greek

Greeks continue to contribute to science in the modern world.

Conclusion

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http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultura_de_Grecia

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http://html.rincondelvago.com/civilizacion-griega_4.html

http://chopo.pntic.mec.es/~csanch20/GRECIA/page4.html