{"product_id":"digital-product-20","title":"Mesoamerica Free Preview","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"538\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"69\"\u003eAncient Mesoamerica: Cities, Codices, and the Problem of Evidence\u003c\/strong\u003e is a five-week, secular high school deep-dive that challenges students to move beyond memorizing dates and civilizations to investigate how history is actually written. Instead of accepting historical narratives at face value, students learn to evaluate archaeological discoveries, primary sources, colonial records, and modern scholarship to answer one essential question: \u003cstrong data-start=\"444\" data-end=\"500\"\u003eHow do we know what we know about the ancient world?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"540\" data-end=\"1008\"\u003eDesigned for grades \u003cstrong data-start=\"560\" data-end=\"568\"\u003e9–12\u003c\/strong\u003e, this moderately rigorous course emphasizes \u003cstrong data-start=\"613\" data-end=\"708\"\u003ecritical thinking, source analysis, evidence-based reasoning, and historical interpretation\u003c\/strong\u003e. Students examine the rise and development of the Olmec, Maya, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, Toltec, and Mexica (Aztec) civilizations while learning to recognize bias, evaluate competing historical interpretations, and distinguish between primary and secondary sources.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1010\" data-end=\"1137\"\u003eRather than presenting history as a collection of simple facts, this course asks students to analyze complex questions such as:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-start=\"1139\" data-end=\"1421\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"7uwkcc\" data-start=\"1139\" data-end=\"1203\"\u003eHow reliable are the surviving sources on ancient Mesoamerica?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"l3zkc4\" data-start=\"1204\" data-end=\"1292\"\u003eHow did archaeologists reconstruct civilizations whose records were largely destroyed?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"1qg7o0h\" data-start=\"1293\" data-end=\"1356\"\u003eWhy do historians sometimes disagree about the same evidence?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"12t8utp\" data-start=\"1357\" data-end=\"1421\"\u003eHow do Indigenous cultures continue to shape the modern world?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1423\" data-end=\"1812\"\u003eThroughout the course, students complete analytical essays, discussion responses, research activities, map and timeline projects, source evaluations, and a cumulative research portfolio. 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Students will study mature historical topics including warfare, conquest, slavery, epidemic disease, colonization, religious practices (including human sacrifice as a historical subject), and the destruction of Indigenous records. These subjects are presented analytically, without sensationalism, and within their historical context. 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