Social Studies 9th Grade Past Paper PDF

2. Compare the Clovis Culture of the United States with the Monteverde Culture of Chile and fill in the chart with the similarities and the differences that you find. (Visual, corporal.) Answers will vary. The object of the exercise is to show that there are few similarities....

2. Compare the Clovis Culture of the United States with the Monteverde Culture of Chile and fill in the chart with the similarities and the differences that you find. (Visual, corporal.) Answers will vary. The object of the exercise is to show that there are few similarities. Similarities Differences Clovis in North America, Both Early Americans 1. 1. Monteverde en South America Monteverde earlier, Clovis at least 2. 2. 1000 years later Clovis sites are identified by special 3. fluted points, Monteverde had a different point technology 4. 3. 5. 4. Artie: This is all really interesting, Inti, but Artie: Was it similar to the Egyptian when are we going to talk about where calender with 365 days based on the your people came from? sun’s movement? Inti: We’ll talk about that later. I think that Inti: Yes it was! It was called the Haab, there are other American civilizations that but they also had the 260 day Tzolk’in we should discuss and understand first. calender that they used for their sacred days and the Long Count calender that Artie: Ok, I really would like to know more was 5126 years long. about your history, Inti, but if you think we should start elsewhere, that’s fine with me! Artie: Wow, that last one sounds like a calender that never stops! Inti: Thank you, Artie. I promise that it will be interesting. Let’s start with the Maya. Inti: The Maya Empire was located in Have you ever heard of the them? Southeast Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and portions of Honduras and El Salvador. Artie: Mmm. Maybe. Did they invent a They were organized in small city-states, calender? that centered around religious and administrative buildings. In the center of Inti: Exactly! While the Egyptians were the each of these they would build pyramids, first to have a calender in their part of the palaces and temples. The government world, the Maya or the Olmec, who came was led by a monarch known as the halac just before them, were probably the first uinic, which means “the real or true man”. to invent one in our part of the world. This halac uinic had control of religion, military and civil powers. 16 SOCIAL STUDIES FOR ECUADOR 9 Artie: So, you’re saying that the Mayas Artie: Wow! They would just leave were a great civilization with many everything and go? different city-states that often fought with each other for resources and power? Inti: Yes! The beautiful city of Palenque is one example of an abandoned major Inti: Yes. The first evidence of the Maya city. Somewhere around the year 900 (2000 B.C.) shows that they lived in small, A.D., archaeologists think that there was permanent villages growing maize, beans, a serious drought in the Maya lowlands squash and chilies. They would then go on that forced people to migrate elsewhere. to build large temples and pyramids with They even think it was caused by the complex city-states that would grow and Maya themselves, by deforestation of shrink according to their luck in war, trade their lands. and agriculture. Sometimes whole cities would be abandoned when things went Artie: Wow! Humans should be more wrong. careful of their Earth! Class Society HALACH UINIC Real man KAN O CHAN AH KIN CO'OB The highest of the sun ALMENEHOOB Nobility CAAB PPOLOM Merchants and professionals YALBA UINIKOOB XIBALBA Small men SOCIAL STUDIES FOR ECUADOR 9 17