Chapter 6 Documents

I was not sure if I understood Document  6.4 about the gold. I think the story was talking about a place were there was a lot of gold and then people would use it to trade. They used there gold in order to trade for something else. Something that I found interesting was the Mayan art. it said that the Mayan art was more complex, subtle, extensive, and innovated than the Americas. By looking at the Mayan art I was able to see ho where art has a lot of detailed, and it seemed like there was a story behind the art. I really found interesting how in both 6.2 and 6.3 the Mayan culture focused on fighting because you can always see them with there weapons. I found astonishing how the Mayans would have rituals for example the bloodletting ritual, where Shield Jaguar would let his blood flow. I am not sure what the ritual meant? Overall these documents were investing but they were as well hard to understand.