History Of Magic, Year One: Final Exam Study Guide
A short, (hopefully) easy guide to get you through Year One's History of Magic final exams!
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The Americas
Chapter 3
1. Clovis Culture:
- In 1933 Muggle archaeologists named the people who
first came to America the "Clovis".
- Magical historians (Utoipius Black) had deemed
these people the Kaia-Vaha.
- In 1935 at a large wizarding history conference in Vienna,
wizard-kind named these people "The Clovis".
- This was an attempt to bond Muggles and magical kind in
our recordings of history and to minimize the confusion in the future.- Muggle and magical kind live side by side and the latter
was held in high esteem.- Wizard-kind hunt megafauna (to hunt ferocious
beasts)- The Clovis were present all throughout the Americas but
died out during what was known as The Mass Cooling. This was a climatic
change that killed off many Muggle Clovis people. While witches and wizards
could use warming charms, many muggles died of hypothermia.
2. "The Va Oua”: drawn by magical historians.
- Drawing of the Clovis working in a cave and moving stones.
- First we can see two birds that strongly resemble
phoenixes. That's because they are phoenixes.
- It is believed by some that the Clovis, who would have
originated somewhere in modern day India or Egypt brought these birds with them
for their healing powers.
3. The Olmec:- Laying out stone work shows early form of protective
enchantment that they would use to ward off bad spirits.
4. The Maya:- First use of hierarchy: witches and wizards made up
the first two "classes" of society: the rulers and the shamans.
This was just above the Muggle priests, while artisans, laborers, and farmers
were even further beneath them.- It was believed in this time that rulers were
representatives of the gods, so when a young wizard showed their power, it
seemed natural that they would be one of the next rulers.- The Olmec peoples lived in the tropical lowlands of
south-central Mexico, where now are the modern-day states of Veracruz and
Tabasco.- When young people accidentally showed their magic, it was
seen as a direct act by the gods to acknowledge them as the next ruler :
widely believed to be divine intervention.
- Mesoamerican people
- Around same time as Olmec.
- Lived in Central America and Southern region (modern day
Mexico)- Early (2,000 BCE to 1,000 BCE) and Middle (1,000 BCE to
400 BCE) Pre-classical Maya- Used jade and obsidian for first form of divination
- Magical Historian Professor Anne Barkum believed
that Maya were the first diviners.- Integrated with magical kind as well.
- had writing system, language and entire sociology.
- traded with the Olmec.
- Divination and fortune-telling takes place.
- Temples and Pyramids were remodelled every 52 years.
- Magical Historians believed that the magic-beings
initiated the idea because 52 = 5+2=7.- Seven is an important number in magic.