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Great Pyramid of Cholula, the Glossary

The Great Pyramid of Cholula, also known as Tlachihualtepetl (Nahuatl for "constructed mountain"), is a complex located in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico.^[1]

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Adolph Bandelier

Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (August 6, 1840March 18, 1914) was a Swiss and American archaeologist who particularly explored the indigenous cultures of the American Southwest, Mexico, and South America.

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Amate

Amate (amate from āmatl) is a type of bark paper that has been manufactured in Mexico since the precontact times.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Chichen Itza

Chichén Itzá, Chichén Itzá, often with the emphasis reversed in English to; from Chiʼchʼèen Ìitshaʼ "at the mouth of the well of the Itza people" (often spelled Chichen Itza in English and traditional Yucatec Maya) was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Terminal Classic period. Great Pyramid of Cholula and Chichen Itza are archaeological museums in Mexico.

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Chichimeca

Chichimeca is the name that the Nahua peoples of Mexico generically applied to nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples who were established in present-day Bajío region of Mexico.

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Cholula (Mesoamerican site)

Cholula (Cholōllān, Otomi) was an important city of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, dating back to at least the 2nd century BCE, with settlement as a village going back at least some thousand years earlier. Great Pyramid of Cholula and Cholula (Mesoamerican site) are archaeological sites in Puebla and history of Puebla.

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Cholula, Puebla

Cholula (officially italics; Mä'ragi), is a city and district located in the metropolitan area of Puebla, Mexico.

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Comal (cookware)

A comal is a smooth, flat griddle typically used in Mexico, Central America, and parts of South America, to cook tortillas and arepas, toast spices and nuts, sear meat, and generally prepare food.

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Common Era

Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.

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Corbel arch

A corbel arch (or corbeled / corbelled arch) is an arch-like construction method that uses the architectural technique of corbeling to span a space or void in a structure, such as an entranceway in a wall or as the span of a bridge.

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Cristero War

The Cristero War (La Guerra Cristera), also known as the Cristero Rebellion or italics, was a widespread struggle in central and western Mexico from 3 August 1926 to 21 June 1929 in response to the implementation of secularist and anticlerical articles of the 1917 Constitution.

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Cuicuilco

Cuicuilco is an important archaeological site located on the southern shore of Lake Texcoco in the southeastern Valley of Mexico, in what is today the borough of Tlalpan in Mexico City. Great Pyramid of Cholula and Cuicuilco are archaeological museums in Mexico.

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Dado (architecture)

In architecture, the dado is the lower part of a wall, below the dado rail and above the skirting board.

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Eduardo Matos Moctezuma

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (born December 11, 1940) is a Mexican archaeologist.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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El Tajín

El Tajín is a pre-Columbian archeological site in southern Mexico and is one of the largest and most important cities of the Classic era of Mesoamerica. Great Pyramid of Cholula and el Tajín are archaeological museums in Mexico.

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Feathered Serpent

The Feathered Serpent is a prominent supernatural entity or deity, found in many Mesoamerican religions.

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Grasshopper

Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera.

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Great Pyramid of Giza

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest Egyptian pyramid.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.

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Human sacrifice in Aztec culture

Human sacrifice was common in many parts of Mesoamerica, so the rite was nothing new to the Aztecs when they arrived at the Valley of Mexico, nor was it something unique to pre-Columbian Mexico.

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Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios, Cholula

The Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios (Our Lady of Remedies Church) is a 16th-century Mexican Catholic parish church built atop the Tlachihualtepetl pyramid in the municipality of Cholula located in the central Mexican state of Puebla.

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Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia

The Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH, National Institute of Anthropology and History) is a Mexican federal government bureau established in 1939 to guarantee the research, preservation, protection, and promotion of the prehistoric, archaeological, anthropological, historical, and paleontological heritage of Mexico.

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International Congress of Americanists

The International Congress of Americanists (ICA) is an international academic conference for research in multidisciplinary studies of the Americas.

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Khufu

Khufu or Cheops was an ancient Egyptian monarch who was the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty, in the first half of the Old Kingdom period (26th century BC).

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Latin America

Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.

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List of tallest structures built before the 20th century

List of pre-twentieth century structures by height.

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Manuel Gamio

Manuel Gamio (1883–1960) was a Mexican anthropologist, archaeologist, sociologist, and a leader of the indigenismo movement.

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Mausoleum

A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the burial chamber of a deceased person or people.

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Meander (art)

A meander or meandros (Μαίανδρος) is a decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif.

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Mesoamerican architecture

Mesoamerican architecture is the set of architectural traditions produced by pre-Columbian cultures and civilizations of Mesoamerica, traditions which are best known in the form of public, ceremonial and urban monumental buildings and structures.

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Mesoamerican pyramids

Mesoamerican pyramids form a prominent part of ancient Mesoamerican architecture.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Monte Albán

Monte Albán is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site in the Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán Municipality in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca (17.043° N, 96.767°W). Great Pyramid of Cholula and Monte Albán are archaeological museums in Mexico.

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Monument

A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, historical, political, technical or architectural importance.

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Mudbrick

Mudbrick or mud-brick, also known as unfired brick, is an air-dried brick, made of a mixture of mud (containing loam, clay, sand and water) mixed with a binding material such as rice husks or straw.

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Nahuas

The Nahuas are one of the Indigenous people of Mexico, with Nahua minorities also in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.

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Nahuatl

Nahuatl, Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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Pilgrimage

A pilgrimage is a journey to a holy place, which can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life.

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Puebla

Puebla (colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla (Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Puebla (city)

Puebla de Zaragoza (Cuetlaxcoapan), formally Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza, formerly Puebla de los Ángeles during colonial times, or known simply as Puebla, is the seat of Puebla Municipality.

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Pulque

Pulque (metoctli), occasionally known as octli or agave wine, is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of the maguey (agave) plant.

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Pyramid

A pyramid is a structure whose visible surfaces are triangular in broad outline and converge toward the top, making the appearance roughly a pyramid in the geometric sense.

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Pyramid of the Moon

The Pyramid of the Moon is the second-largest pyramid in Mesoamerica, after the Pyramid of the Sun, and located in modern-day San Martín de las Pirámides, Mexico. Great Pyramid of Cholula and pyramid of the Moon are pyramids in Mexico.

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Quetzalcōātl

Quetzalcoatl (Nahuatl: "Feathered Serpent") is a deity in Aztec culture and literature. Among the Aztecs, he was related to wind, Venus, Sun, merchants, arts, crafts, knowledge, and learning. He was also the patron god of the Aztec priesthood. He was one of several important gods in the Aztec pantheon, along with the gods Tlaloc, Tezcatlipoca and Huitzilopochtli.

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Relief

Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material.

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San Andrés Cholula, Puebla

San Andrés Cholula is the municipal seat of San Andrés Cholula Municipality located in the Metropolitan area of Puebla, in the center west of the state of Puebla in the central highlands of Mexico, 122 km east of Mexico City and eight kilometres west of the city of Puebla.

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San Pedro Cholula

San Pedro Cholula is a municipality in the Mexican state of Puebla and one of two municipalities which made up the city of Cholula.

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Sceptre

A sceptre (or scepter in American English) is a staff or wand held in the hand by a ruling monarch as an item of royal or imperial insignia, signifying sovereign authority.

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Secretariat of Culture

The Secretariat of Culture (Secretaría de Cultura), formerly known as the National Council for Culture and Arts (Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes or CONACULTA), is a Mexican government agency in charge of the nation's museums and monuments, promoting and protecting the arts (visual, plastic, theatrical, musical, dance, architectural, literary, televisual and cinematographic), and managing the national archives.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Spanish colonization of the Americas

The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492 voyage of Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus under license from Queen Isabella I of Castile.

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Stucco

Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water.

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Talud-tablero

Talud-tablero is an architectural style most commonly used in platforms, temples, and pyramids in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, becoming popular in the Early Classic Period of Teotihuacan.

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Tenayuca

Tenayuca (Tenanyohcān) is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site in the Valley of Mexico. Great Pyramid of Cholula and Tenayuca are archaeological museums in Mexico and pyramids in Mexico.

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Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan (Spanish: Teotihuacán) is an ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub-valley of the Valley of Mexico, which is located in the State of Mexico, northeast of modern-day Mexico City. Great Pyramid of Cholula and Teotihuacan are archaeological museums in Mexico.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Cholula

Also known as Pyramid of Cholula, Tlachihualtepetl.

, San Pedro Cholula, Sceptre, Secretariat of Culture, Spain, Spanish colonization of the Americas, Stucco, Talud-tablero, Tenayuca, Teotihuacan, Thames & Hudson, Tláloc, Toltec, Tula (Mesoamerican site), University of Oklahoma Press, Valley of Mexico, Virgin of Los Remedios, Xoloitzcuintle.

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Archaeological museums in Mexico

Archaeological sites in Puebla

Buildings and structures in Puebla

History of Puebla

Museums in Puebla

Pyramids in Mexico

Religion in Puebla

Tourist attractions in Puebla

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