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Figure 9.8
Terracotta Warriors Guarding the
Tomb of the Chinese Emperor Qin
Xi Huang. An estimated 700,000
laborers worked for over 40 years,
around 200
, to craft more than
7000 terracotta warriors who stand
guard over the emperor's tomb.
© O. Louis Mazzatenta/National Geographic
Society/Getty Images.
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Figure 9.9
Mayan and Aztec Domains
.
© E. H. Fouberg, A. B. Murphy H. J. de Blij, and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
95
MAYAN AND AZTEC DOMAINS
0
150
300 Kilometers
0
150
300 Miles
PANUCO
BASIN
Chichén
Itza
Gulf of
Mexico
Mayapán
Tula
Uxmal
20
El Tajín
20
Tzintzuntzan
Teotihuacán
Tenochtitlan
YUCATÁN
PENINSULA
Cuicuilco
Cholula
Tres Zapotes
Xochicalco
Cuello
La Venta
San
Lorenzo
Monte
Albán
Palenque
Tikal
Bonampak
Altar des
Sacrificios
Chiapa de
Corso
Gulf of
Honduras
Mayan domain
Aztec domain
Gulf of
Tehuantepec
GUATEMALAN
HIGHLANDS
15
Copán
Izapa
FEET
METERS
Altamira
Kaminaljuyú
8,200
3,280
660
0
2500
1000
200
0
PACIFIC OCEAN
90
100
95
Longitude West of Greenwich
