Maya to Aztec
Subtitle: ancient Mesoamerica revealed
By: Edwin Barnhart
Contributors: Teaching Company
Series: Great courses. History (Ancient history); Great courses (DVD)
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 1440
ISBN-13: 9781629971179
Subjects: Indians of Mexico; Indians of Central America; History; Mayas; Incas
Description: Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed immerses you in the epic story of the Mexico's history with 48 exhilarating half-hour lectures that cover the full scope of Mesoamerican history and culture. Your guide is Professor Edwin Barnhart, Director of the Maya Exploration Center and a noted archaeologist, explorer, and teacher, whose exploits include the discovery of a lost Maya city.
Notes: Course no. 3100.

Program contains forty-eight lectures; the length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min.

Lecture notes and program information contained in course guidebook.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-343) in course guidebook.

Lecturer: Professor Edwin Barnhart, Maya Exploration Center.

DVD.

In English.

Title from disc surface.
Table of contents: title: Disc 1.; title: The Maya, Aztecs, and Mesoamerica ;; title: Olmec Civilization Emerges ;; title: Olmec Art as the Mother Culture ;; title: Olmec Contemporaries ;; title: Mesoamerican Plants, Cuisine, and Medicine ;; title: Early Highland Maya: Izapa to Kaminaljuyu -- -- Disc 2.; title: Preclassic Maya Lowlands: El Mirador ;; title: The Popol Vuh: Creation and Hero Twins ;; title: The Great City of Teotihuacan ;; title: How the Maya Mastered Mathematics ;; title: The World's Most Elaborate Calendar ;; title: Tikal: Aspiring Capital of the Maya World -- -- Disc 3.; title: Maya Hieroglyphs: Breaking the Code ;; title: Maya Astronomy and Building Orientations ;; title: The Dresden Codex ;; title: Palenque: Jewel in the West ;; title: Sacred Geometry in Art and Architecture ;; title: Illuminating Works of Maya Art -- -- Disc 4.; title: Copan: Jungle Dynasty of the East ;; title: Calakmul: The Mighty Snake Kingdom ;; title: The Mesoamerican Ball Game ;; title: Enigmatic West Mexico and Shaft Tombs ;; title: Classic Maya Collapse: Cities Abandoned! ;; title: New Cities of the Terminal Classic: Uxmal -- -- Disc 5.; title: Monte Alban and Zapotec Rule over Oaxaca ;; title: The Mixtec Rise: Gold and Epic Stories ;; title: The Great Pyramid of Cholula and El Tajin ;; title: Cacaxtla Murals and Xochicalco ;; title: The Toltecs: Role Models or Myth? ;; title: Chichen Itza: Maya Capital of the Yucatan -- -- Disc 6.; title: League of Mayapan: Maya New World Order ;; title: Mesoamerican Religion ;; title: Aztec Origins: Arrival and Rise of the Mexica ;; title: The Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan ;; title: Life in the Aztec World ;; title: How the Aztecs Expanded Their Empire -- -- Disc 7.; title: Independent Tarascans: Desert Warriors ;; title: Paquime: Northernmost Mesoamerican City? ;; title: Illuminating Works of Aztec Art ;; title: Tulum: Aztecs at the Ancient Maya Port City ;; title: First Contact with Europe in Mesoamerica ;; title: The Siege of Tenochtitlan -- -- Disc 8.; title: Conquest of the Maya and Landa's Legacy ;; title: Fall of the Last Maya Kingdom: The Itza ;; title: The Caste Wars of Yucatan ;; title: Echoes of the Past in Mexico ;; title: Maya Survival and Revival ;; title: Frontiers of Mesoamerican Archaeology.