Featured video: Rise and fall of the Maya
Introduction, setting the scene for Maya times
Supports: book 'Exploring the Maya empire'.
Playing time: 13 min

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Maya Introduction: classroom cinema
Introduction, setting the scene for Maya times
Supports: book 'Exploring the Maya empire'.

Aztec Introduction: classroom cinema
Introduction, setting the scene for Aztec times
Supports: book 'The Maya and Aztec'.
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Ancestors including Maya
Shows the reason that the Maya and Aztec rose to power.
Supports: books 'The Maya and Aztec and 'Exploring the Maya empire'.

Clothes and fashion
Find out what was fashionable in Aztec times.
Supports: book 'The Maya and Aztec'.

Aztec market
Explains what kind of trading took place in the Aztec empire.
Supports: book 'The Maya and Aztec'.

Chinampas (market gardens)
See how the Maya and Aztec made productive food from the lake muds next to their city.
Supports: book 'The Maya and Aztec'.

The temple
Explains the importance of the temple and some of the rights that were connected to it.
Supports: book 'The Maya and Aztec'.

Living in an Aztec house
Describes the way that people lived, including medicines.
Supports: book 'The Maya and Aztec'.

Olmec obsidian
Obsidian artefact made by the Olmec people.
Supports: book 'Exploring the Maya empire'.

Maya city Chichen Itza
Views of one of the biggest Maya cities.
Supports: book 'Exploring the Maya empire'.

Maya city Chichen Itza
Views of one of the biggest Maya cities.
Supports: book 'Exploring the Maya empire'.

Maya city Chichen Itza
Views of one of the biggest Maya cities.
Supports: book 'Exploring the Maya empire'.

Maya city Chichen Itza
Views of one of the biggest Maya cities.
Supports: book 'Exploring the Maya empire'.

Maya city Chichen Itza
Views of one of the biggest Maya cities.
Supports: book 'Exploring the Maya empire'.

Maya city Chichen Itza
Views of one of the biggest Maya cities.
Supports: book 'Exploring the Maya empire'.