Archive for July, 2011
Zip wires in Costa Rica
Today I’m in Costa Rica and I went on lots of Zipwires! I had a great time and a very fun time there. All of the zipwires were great and sometimes as long as 600 metres. The first one was only 40 metres and not so scary. But at first I felt really scared and […]
Read the rest of this entry »Che Guevara
Today we are in the Che museum. I saw his birth certificate and books he read as a child. Che was a very good rugby player. I saw his camera and his bracelet. He had a gun and he used a lantern for his guerilla. I saw his beret that he used in his early […]
Read the rest of this entry »Trinidad Cuba, 20th July 2011
We went on a catamaran and we went snorkelling. In the water I saw some coral and lots of different fish. I saw a school of small yellow fish and I saw an eel. The eel was blue and yellow. My mum spotted some swirly coral and I saw something that looked like seaweed but […]
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I have learnt alot of things in Cuba. These are the things I have learnt. There are two currencys. One is pesos convertibles and the other is pesos nacionales. 40 centavos nacionales roughly equals 1p. I learnt about Che and Fidel. There are lots of small birds here but I have not found a humming […]
Read the rest of this entry »Aztec History 7 – The sacrifices
The Aztecs sacrificed people by the thousands. It is estimated that by the time the Spaniards came, they sacrificed over 50,000 people every year. Their main God was the God of war and the sun. This was a dangerous combination. It meant that every morning he had to fight away the monsters of the night, […]
Read the rest of this entry »Aztec History 6 – Maya to Aztec
The Aztecs started in a village called Aztlan in Mexico, and spread from there. They used to call themselves the Mexica, which is where the name of Mexico originates. (video by Omar and Alvaro, commentary by their dad)
Read the rest of this entry »(pre-)Aztec History 5 – clever steps
The Mayans were clever builders. They built this pyramid with four sides, each side having 91 steps. At the top, there was one more step. What does 4 x 91 + 1 make, and what is the significance of that number? The pyramids in the Americas were mainly step pyramids, not like the ones in […]
Read the rest of this entry »(pre-)Aztec History 4 – The Aztecs didn’t get this far
The Aztecs did not conquer the whole of Mexico. The Mayan town of Chichen Itza was never part of the Aztec empire. Some people say that this is because the Mayans were spread over such a large area, and also that some of their towns were in areas that were hard to reach, such as […]
Read the rest of this entry »(pre-)Aztec History 3 – The Maya
The longest lasting civilisation in the whole of the Americas is the Maya. They started out about 3,500 years ago, and are still in Mexico and Guatamala today. They were partially defeated by the Aztecs, but because they were spread over such a wide area, they weren’t completely beaten by them. These ruins at Chichen […]
Read the rest of this entry »(pre-) Aztec History 2 – How mankind came to Mexico
The human race started out in Africa. It then spread out from there to Asia and to Europe, because these were connected by land to Africa, and people were able to walk across with their animals over several thousand years. There were no humans in the Americas, because there was no way for man to […]
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