Summary of Camilla Townsend's Fifth Sun

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The girl was taken in war, and she lost everything. But she was able to remind herself of what her mother and grandmother had taught her: she must do whatever she can to survive.
#2 In the year 1299, Shield Flower looked upon her own death and found the courage to pass from this earthly life with the dignity and style that befit a royal woman. She was taken to Culhuacan, the most important Culhua town, and left as a prisoner.
#3 The story of Shield Flower would have been the story of more than one young woman. archaeological and linguistic evidence, as well as the written historical annals of multiple Mexican towns, all indicate that the ancestors of the people now known as the Aztecs came down from the north over several centuries.
#4 The story of the peopling of the Americas is a tale of humans migrating from Asia to Alaska about 20,000 years ago. As the glaciers began to melt around 13,000 years ago, some people followed big game into Alaska.

Sujets

• Mexico
• Latin America

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 28 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669369097
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Camilla Townsend's Fifth Sun
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The girl was taken in war, and she lost everything. But she was able to remind herself of what her mother and grandmother had taught her: she must do whatever she can to survive.

#2

In the year 1299, Shield Flower looked upon her own death and found the courage to pass from this earthly life with the dignity and style that befit a royal woman. She was taken to Culhuacan, the most important Culhua town, and left as a prisoner.

#3

The story of Shield Flower would have been the story of more than one young woman. archaeological and linguistic evidence, as well as the written historical annals of multiple Mexican towns, all indicate that the ancestors of the people now known as the Aztecs came down from the north over several centuries.

#4

The story of the peopling of the Americas is a tale of humans migrating from Asia to Alaska about 20,000 years ago. As the glaciers began to melt around 13,000 years ago, some people followed big game into Alaska.

#5

Humans became full-time farmers when and where it made sense to do so. The result was that people had to abandon the nomadic lifestyle, and they were able to construct big buildings and heavy items.

#6

The shift from nomadic hunter-gatherers to farming communities was a gradual process that occurred in fits and starts across Eurasia. It took thousands of years in Mexico for the Native Americans to turn their little tufts of corn into what we would recognize as ears of corn.

#7

The Maya were a group of people who lived in what is now Central America, and they were very skilled at building large, sturdy buildings where they stored surplus food. They developed a calendar, and their artisans were able to create sculptures that commemorated the triumphs of their kings.

#8

The Olmec civilization in Mexico was the first to use thelapis lazuli trade, but other cultures began to develop as well, and a city state called Cuicuilco flourished in the central basin.

#9

The first four worlds, each with its own sun and living creatures, were all destroyed, and the earth was left in darkness. The gods gathered and took counsel at Teotihuacan, believing that someone would have the courage to carry the burden of a sun.

#10

The first immigrants from the north who stumbled upon the city’s inspirational ruins were stunned at what they saw. The old city lay between two great pyramids, each of which was aligned with a towering mountain behind it.

#11

In around 650, a great crisis shook the world of all those under the sway of Teotihuacan. The working people, who were probably peasant farmers, rose in revolt. They burned the palaces and the ceremonial precincts, but left untouched the apartments of the ordinary folk.

#12

The fall of Teotihuacan created another power vacuum. The nomadic peoples living to the north knew about the central valley due to the once-thriving long-distance trade networks. They were armed and dangerous, and they quickly took over central Mexico.

#13

The Apache were not the only tribe to fight the Spanish. The Chacoans, who lived in New Mexico, built temples and apartments along the San Juan River. The descendants of the immigrants eventually settled down and became corn planters.

#14

The Maya had a complex calendar system that had been brought to them from the central isthmus. The calendar consisted of eighteen months of twenty days each, plus five blank or unnamed, frightening days at the end, for a total of 365 days.

#15

The central Mexican town square, surrounded by pyramid temples, was the center of the culture. The town square was the place where people gathered and shared cultural events, and where there was almost always a ball court with slanted walls on two sides.

#16

The first generation of Shield Flower’s people to learn a phonetic transcription system recorded dozens of stories about the wanderers. They all believed they came from the northwest, from Chicomoztoc, the place of the Seven Caves.

#17

The Chichimec barbarians were proud of their alliances, but they were also guilty about the rages and schisms that resulted from them. The Toltec people, who lived in central Mexico and were known for their arts and crafts, were often referred to as the first barbarians.

#18

The Tolteca Chichimeca were eventually enslaved by another, more powerful tribe. They were treated poorly, and they could not worship their own gods properly. But they cleverly devised a plan. They offered to take responsibility for handling the festivities of an upcoming religious holiday.

#19

The Mexica were the people who were given land by the king of Culhuacan, in exchange for which they had to act as his servants. They were given impossible tasks, and when they completed them, the king was amazed and asked himself, Who are these Mexica.

#20

The Mexica, the people who were to become the Aztec empire, were initially forced to live on an island in a great lake by the eagle. But they were able to find a good reason to stay, and they began to build a town called Tenochtitlan.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

In 1430, Itzcoatl, or Obsidian Snake, won the gamble of a lifetime. He felt certain that he would be able to retain the position of tlatoani of the Mexica, and high king of all the central valley. He ordered a ceremonial book burning, which destroyed all the old painted histories that led their readers to expect a different future.

#2

Itzcoatl’s world was never meant to be governed. He was just the son of a palace woman, and his half brothers were named after ancestors who had been leaders of the Mexica.