My group worked on the Totonac Civilization. I found that\nall other cultures; Tarascan, Zapotec and pueblo were all dependent on maize to\nsustain the large populations of their cultural centers. Large stone temples\nwere features of Tajin, Monte Alban of the Zapotecs and Tzintzuntz\u00e1n, the major\nurban center of the Tarascans. The temples in the centers were necessary to guarantee\nfertility and the approval of the Gods in other endeavors, such as war. A\nruling aristocracy and a hereditary priesthood topped a hierarchical social\nstructure, with a lower class entirely relegated to agricultural production.\nThe myths and rituals, all fertility cult deities were based on essentially the\nsame cosmological understanding, that\ncivilization was born with the creation of maize. Interestingly, we have the\nPueblo living in the north in many smaller groups, with no central urban capital.\nThe harsher less fertile land, with scarce rainfall led to development of\nirrigation to ensure the food supply. Less people in the workforce, over a\nlarger, area afforded women a more prominent role in a society. One that valued\nthe necessity of their work alongside male farmers. Also, smaller communities\ndid not support the rigidly stratified upper classes of urban religious where\npriests the elite consumed but did not work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Richard Bein\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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