Unit+7+-+Latin+America

**Unit 7 - Latin America**

 * Early Civilizations: Go to these sites and fill out the document**

Mayans - Calendar [|Mayan Calendar] - Use this link to find out about the Mayan calendar and convert your birth date into Mayan hieroglyphs. Place these hieroglyphs on the Word document.

Aztecs - Tenochtitlan [|Tenochtitlan Facts] - Use this link to find out about the great Aztec city Tenochtitlan. Answer correlating questions on the document

Incas - Machu Picchu [|Machu Picchu] - Use this link to read about Machu Picchu in Peru and check out the virtual tour. Answer correlating questions on the document

Art and Lit:

Pablo Neruda - Chilean Poet who ran for political office and wrote an epic poem about Latin America's history - //General Song//

Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo - famous painters (Diego was inspired by Italian artists and the focus on religion and revolution. Frida was inspired by her love of Mexico)

Nobel Prize winning novelists: Miguel Angel Asturias and Gabriel Garcia Marquez (living under a dictatorship in Guatemala and magical realism - blend of fact, fantasy, and humor)



Muralists - Mexican Revolution during the 1920s and 1930s

Jose Clemente Orozco

Review -