Worlds of History offers a flexible comparative and thematic organization that accommodates a variety of teaching approaches and helps students to make cross-cultural comparisons. Thoughtfully compiled by a distinguished world historian and community college instructor; each chapter presents a wide array of primary and secondary sources arranged around a major theme — such as universal religions; the environment and technology; or gender and family — across two or more cultures.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. archeoastronomyBy TGPreviously in SIPUPANI; Allan MacGillivray explained how advanced cosmological knowledge is inculcated in the calendric system of the Sacred Calendar; known as the Aztec Tonapohualli and earlier Mayan Tzolkin. This knowledge has subtly survived in Southwest ceremonialism and revealed in ancient American cultural center architecture. Dramatically presented and illustrated here in this new publication of THE VENUS CALENDAR OBSERVATORY AT AZTEC NEW MEXICO; MacGillivray clearly demonstrates ground breaking insights of fixed; architectural astronomical devices; and brings diverse evidence together to explain and illustrate how these devices were utilized in the Hubbard Ruin; at Aztec. First American shaman-priest/daykeepers were in fact present at Aztec; directing the construction and use of the Tri-Wall architecture; is proven here beyond reasonable doubt; as earlier speculated by archaeologists Edwin Ferndon and Gordon Vivian.One of the most striking aspects of Allan's work is that this study strongly confirms that the Piedra del Sol is in fact calendrical; and was actually "chiseled in stone" at Tenochtitlan by the cognocenti of the cumulative cosmological knowledge of the period; which gives us a new tool and perspective for viewing Native cultural complexity. T.G.Futch III - AZTLAN CONSULTANTS
