DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Maya to Aztec : ancient Mesoamerica revealed / Edwin Barnhart.

Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Company, [2015]

8 videodiscs (approximately 1440 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)

4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video

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.

Great courses. History (Ancient history)

Great courses (DVD). Ancient history.

Indians of Mexico -- History.

Indians of Central America -- History.

Mayas -- History.

Incas -- History.

Filmed lectures.

Nonfiction films.

Educational films.

Barnhart, Edwin Lawrence, teacher.

Teaching Company, production company.

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.

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

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