The video on the pyramids were so intresting. At first I thought I would have to see them in in parts at diffrent times but I watched it all in one sitting. I learned more about the god Quetzalcoatl which I had seen on an everyday basis due to the fact that I would pass by that statue of it downtown quite often. I was also glad to know the reason why Moctezuma would think that Hernan Cortez was Quetzalcoatl. In the film, it states that it was because he was light skinned and matched a discription of him so I got quite confused because I thought Quetzalcoatl was a snake.
The decline of Teotihuacan due to the distruction of its natural resources brings be back to one of Darwin's postulates I learned in Anthropology: The ability for the population to expand is infinite, but the ability for the environment to support the population is finite. Populations can expand infinetly, but yet the earth does not have enough resources and such to be able to maintain these populations. Such happened in Teotihuacan , its residents used up the firewood for preparation of their art supplies. The deforestation lead to droughts and crop failures (Miller). The enviornment had reached its toll, thus not being able to support the population of Teotihuacan.
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I do the same thing. I tend to get wrapped up in the new information, and just go though it like a bag of skittle.
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