11654121262 | Olmec | First major civilization | 0 | |
11654126151 | Olmec | slash and burn, obsidian weapons, trade routes, traded rubber, animal domestications | 1 | |
11654139821 | Olmec | Polytheistic, social classes, San Lorenzo, La Venta, Tabasco, Veracruz | 2 | |
11654146904 | Mayan | Guatemala, slash and burn, crop rotation, stone age | 3 | |
11654158427 | Mayan | Calendars and buildings, pyramids, bridges, Sacbe (roadways), astronomy, zero | 4 | |
11654172480 | Toltec | Mexico city, obsidian trade, Topiltzin, Quetzalcoatl, militaristic, buildings, pottery, golden age | 5 | |
11654189535 | Kwakwaka'wakw | Vancouver Island, fishers, hunter-gatherers, canoes, traded fish, masks, slaves, woodworking | 6 | |
11654199771 | Athabascans | Western Canada, Eastern Alaska, nomadic hunters, pragmatism, kinship based on 'sibs', powerful spirits, trade with North America, caribou fences | 7 | |
11654213325 | Coast Salish | North Oregon, north, central, south, traded dried fish, patrilineal, shaman, traditional hunting techniques, oral tradition | 8 | |
11654233743 | Chinook | traded fur, jardon, killed by small pox | 9 | |
11654237943 | Mississippian | south US, small communities, clay houses, chieftains, pottery, stone tools, corn based economy | 10 | |
11654248581 | Mississippian | trade networks, public networks, stone tools, hierarchy government, matrilineal | 11 | |
11654269183 | Anasazi | four corners, agricultural era, Chaco canyon, baskets, pottery, adobe pueblos, lived in dangerous cliffs, log ladders, kivas, polytheistic, mud and stone structures | 12 | |
11654284535 | Arawaks | taino, Yucayeque, Quisqueya, agricultural base, slash and burn, traded crops, stone making, weaving, carved canoes, matrilineal, Naborias, Nitanos, batey, polytheistic | 13 | |
11654309240 | Aztecs | Aztlan, Nahuatl, carved pictures, city states, agricultural base, two calendars, obsidian blades, canoes, polytheistic, Tlachtli, ritual almanacs, sacrifice | 14 | |
11654331503 | Incas | Andean highlands, Tawantinsuyu, militaristic, Pachacuti: Inca, Topac Yupanqui: extended, Huayna Capac: stopped invasions | 15 | |
11654359538 | Incas | agricultural base, mita service, barter system, llama caravans, cult of ancestors, split inheritance, Sun god: Inti, Huacas, Cuzco, state bureaucracy, Quechua language, quipu, irrigation system, inca queen linked to moon, system of roads, calendar | 16 |
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