Name Time Main Features Important Cities Architecture

Olmec 1st Civilization La Venta Of earth

largest city in the pre-

Teotihuacan's Teotihuacan Pyramid of sun
Columbian Americas

Cuicuilco Pyramid of moon

The use of hills to place

Megalithic Petén Precalisc 500 BC their pyramids to make El Mirador Izamal
them bigger

They covered their

pyramids to make the Calakmul El jaguar temple
bigger

Izamal La Danta
Acanceh Mascaron temple

Temple de las
Classic Petén 550 BC-800 AD they had the most Bonampak
inscriptions
complex trading
business networks Palenque Temple de la Cruz
Tikal Temple del sol
Copan Temple of mask
Coloa Yaxha temple
they used river systems
had used as commercial
networks 7 dolls Temple
hieroglyphic stairway

Rio Bec Late classic Becan Place of santa roja

They don't gave the
resources to do tall Bekan Main temple of
temples, so their Chicanna chicanna
temple are small, but Rio Bec
simulate big buildings
Xpuhil
Geometric decoration Xlapk
They copy the
megalithic Petén
dimensions
 They copy the classic
Petén buildings forms

Chenes Late classic Hochob

They improve the The five steps building
temple-palace-pyramid Eszna
Ek-Balam Ek-Balam observatory
Their buildings are
bigger than the rio bec Comalcalco Acropolis of Ek-Balam
style Sorcerer Temple (Uxmal)
pyramids with bricks
and covered with
stucco
Puuc Style Industrial ornament Uxmal Labna Arc
decoration Kabah
Sayil
They build facades with
squarish prefabric Labna
mosaics Chacmultun
Dynamic and symmetric
buildings

Aztecs 1325-1521AD construian con pilotes tenochtitlan templo mayor

cosechavan en chinanpasteotihuacan templos gemelos
tenian sistemas de riego tezcuzinco templo cueva
usaban cacao como monedas templo de tenayuca
su imprerio fue el mas grande y traian prod cacaomonedas
eran un pueblo no autosuficiente palacio moctezuma 2
tenian un calpulli como un ayuntamiento moderno en cada seccion de chinanpas
techos planos
esquinas cuadradas
columnas
columnatas
doble escalinta
alfardas
 Architecture elements Urban trace Discoveries Building Materials Living Space
Huimanguillo Rubber Earth
Veracruz Ball game Basalt
Math
Astronomy

Veracruz Urbanism Obsidian

México City planning

Puebla

Platforms Guatemala Stucco lime Big stones Mayan Hut

Stucco made with

Roof combs El Salvador Astronomy
heated stones

Great stupped basement Wood

with inner corners Yucatán Calendar
Mascarons Chiapas Hieroglyphic writing Huano
Zero Kankab
Sahcab
False Arc Guatemala maritime trading Stucco
networks
Puuc Style Chiapas established Lime stone Precarious
Mayan Vault Campeche Stone houses with
Steele Quintana Roo drug development Wood stone
foundations,
Crests Honduras mud walls and
Yucatán roofs of palm
Smaller scale and smaller leaf
stones

False temple Campeche Lime stucco Mayan Hut

False Towers Quintana Roo They impress their
enemies whit their
Massive decoration structures
Roof combs

labyrinthine structures

Stair whit big inclinations

 Roof combs Tabasco Drainage to collect Bricks of mud
Round corners Comalcalco water
Longer Shapes Campeche
Yucatán
mple (Uxmal)

Stone Mosaics Yucatán Lime stone

Campeche Cement

wood pilotes as foundation México city pasos elevados puentvolcanic stone en casas flotan
piedra ligera para su estructupacifico-atlanti peuntes levadizos mimbre casas d obra
acueduct tezontle vivienda comunitaria
represas cal-yeso hacian planos de obra
represas con exclusasobsidian
chinancpas para cultivar
da seccion de chinanpas caminos como supercarreteras
servicio tipo fedex

chacmool-vandeja para corazones

 Urbanize

Use of natural
geography (hills,
mountains)

Orientation to
produce astronomic
phenomenon

their structures were

covered with murals
and stucco
ornaments

generally oriented
according to the local
in order to produce
astronomic
phenomenon

They take advantage

of the hills or
mountains, to place
their buildings
 They place their
buildings on
platforms to make
the more impressive

calzada tlalpan
chinanpas dicididas por canales
enda comunitaria
an planos de obra