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Welcome to a whirlwind tour of the panamapacific International Exposition. Thank you so much to the California Historical society for hosting tonights event and especially adam, jason, and the director, and to lillian for putting together this lovely event. Also thanks to c. H. S. For copublishing my book. You can see why i felt the book had found its home when i spoke to malcolm. If youd like to hear about other events, you can sign up on my mailing list which i will have after the show. Also, we are going to publish them on the site. If you want to hear about other topics, please sign up. Tonight i will be presenting a brief introduction to the great worlds fair held in 1915 also known as the ppie. I hope you will enjoy the stories i selected tonight. First, i will give you a little background on the fair, why and how it came to be built, and then we will t ....
Flourished from the third to the ninth century in a far flung collection of citystates. At palenque, tonina, bonampak and other cities, dynastic kings ruled absolutely, controlling trade and tribute. They presided over intricate hierarchies of nobles and officials at courts resplendent with works of art. Maya culture, shrouded in a mystery as dense as the forests in which it took root, revealed itself fitfully over three centuries. When the ruins in the jungle were first discovered, there was no way of understanding how the civilization was organized. So its really through the inscriptions that weve been able to identify kings, to find out their capitals, their seats of power. And through this, we recognize now that there were many kingdoms. There was no unified maya state. There wasnt even just a few states. There were many, many states. narrator the first inroads into understanding the maya were made by spanish missionaries in the 16th and 17th centuries who followed in the imperial ....
At palenque, tonina bonampak and other cities, dynastic kings ruled absolutely, controlling trade and tribute. They presided over intricate hierarchies of nobles and officials at courts resplendent with works of art. Maya culture, shrouded in a mystery as dense as the forests in which it took root, revealed itself fitfully over three centuries. When the ruins in the jungle were first discovered, there was no way of understanding how the civilization was organized. So its really through the inscriptions that weve been able to identify kings to find out their capitals their seats of power. And through this we recognize now that there were many kingdoms. There was no unified maya state. There wasnt even just a few states. There were many, many states. narrator the first inroads into understanding the maya were made by spanish missionaries in the 16th and 17th centuries who followed in the imperial wake of hernan cortes. Their discoveries included the ruins at copan. But interest in the st ....
Controlling trade and tribute. They presided over intricate hierarchies of nobles and officials at courts resplendent with works of art. Maya culture, shrouded in a mystery as dense as the forests in which it took root, revealed itself fitfully over three centuries. When the ruins in the jungle were first discovered, there was no way of understanding how the civilization was organized. So its really through the inscriptions that weve been able to identify kings, to find out their capitals, their seats of power. And through this, we recognize now that there were many kingdoms. There was no unified maya state. There wasnt even just a few states. There were many, many states. narrator the first inroads into understanding the maya were made by spanish missionaries in the 16th and 17th centuries who followed in the imperial wake of hernan cortes. Their discoveries included the ruins at copan. But interest in the lost civilizaon began to accelerate in the 18th century when father antonio de ....
But long ago, it was the world of the maya. Not an empire, nor a country, the classic maya culture flourished from the third to the ninth century in a far flung collection of citystates. At palenque, tonina, bonampak and other cities, dynastic kings ruled absolutely, controlling trade and tribute. They presided over intricate hierarchies of nobles and officials at courts resplendent with works of art. Maya culture, shrouded in a mystery as dense as the forests in which it took root, revealed itself fitfully over three centuries. When the ruins in the jungle were first discovered, there was no way of understanding how the civilization was organized. So its really through the inscriptions that weve been able to identify kings, to find out their capitals, their seats of power. And through this, we recognize now that there were many kingdoms. There was no unified maya state. There wasnt even just a few states. There were many, many states. narrator the first inroads into understanding the ....