Event #1 Civilizations of Mesoamerica

The civilizations of Mesoamerica was a small event, where we started with a dialogue on what we knew of the different Mesoamerican civilizations that had existed. I realized
I didn't really know much about the different civilizations that existed, I just new of the 3 major civilazations which were the Mayan's, the Incas and the Aztecs. After the dialogue we had professor David Espinosa (this link gives you more information of the professor what he does and who he is) talk to us about the different cultures, there way of religion, the food they grew, how they survived and the different customs that had existed in each of the civilizations he had mention. They had a few things in common like the fact that each civilization worshiped a different animal. Because each animal represented different things. They all also had their own system or writing and reading. They also believed in hierarchy, where the king was their leader.
But each civilization had there differences like the Toltecs liked to shaped the heads of their leaders from birth so that the leaders looked different from everyone else.Some believed more in power, others belived more in what the lands could produce. Each had their own way of living and exsiting, although some civilizations were stronger than others, they all lived among each other.
 here is more information if interested. (this link gives more in dept explanation.)

Through this event it helped me think about today and how each of the civilizations that used to exist are similar to the way today's world is. some countries believe differently than others, yet we all work together and we learn from each other. we have a different way of running things, or believing in things but we all exist in this world and each country somehow finds a way to make things work. This makes me think about today and working with all of those different cultural boundaries, we each come from different places and are used to doing things in a different way, the things is to learn from each other and grow.  We need to learn as much as we can because as a youth worker i will be put in situations were i will be working with youth from different ages, cultural backgrounds and have different beliefs than I do. So I need to take the time to learn of these different cultural beliefs and backgrounds to lean to work with them and be able to help them in everything that they need.
This also reminded me of an article I read a while back about working with different cultures.

Btw sorry i really didn't take pictures of the actual event, i forgot while i was there.


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