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| 208903339 | migration to mesoamerica | 40,000 yrs ago, large wave of humans traveled from siberia to alaska | |
| 208903340 | early agriculture of mesoamericans | beans, squashes, chilis, but later maize (corn) agricultural villiges started to appear | |
| 208903341 | olmecs | lived near golf of mexico, built la venta and san lorenzo (elebrate complexes), 7-9ft tall statues of human heads and animal bodies, and comeners built huge pyrimids. | |
| 208903342 | who discovered rubber? | the olmecs | |
| 208903343 | the olmecs traded.... | art, animal skins, jade and obsidian with the hunters. | |
| 208903344 | what was the decline of the olmecs? | when they dystoryed their own cerimonial centers | |
| 208903345 | what was the influence of the olmec? | maize, cerimaonail centers, calender, human sacrifice, ball game | |
| 208903346 | the olmecs made the 1st ....... | calenders | |
| 208903347 | the maya lived... | in the highslands of guatemala | |
| 208903348 | maya warfare: | warriros had prestige, captives were slaves or victims for sacrafice | |
| 208903349 | kaminaljuyu | mayans 1st cerimonial center | |
| 208903350 | why did the maya decline? | mayans deserted their cities because lack of h2o control, deseases, civil war, and possibly ran out of reasources | |
| 208903351 | merchants | the ruling class; they served also as ambassadors | |
| 208903352 | professional architects and artisans were... | important | |
| 208903353 | the temple of the giant jaguar | mayans biggest cerimonial center | |
| 208903354 | maya calendar | has solar and ritual yrs (our calender) solar yrs has 260 days and ritual yrs has 365 days. | |
| 208903355 | what was suppose to happen every 52 yrs in the mayans calender | the days from the solar and ritual years would line up and a monumental thing was suppose to happen | |
| 208903356 | popol vuh | a myth that the gods created humans out of maize and water | |
| 208903357 | how did the gods maintains agricultural cycles | by sacrafices | |
| 208903358 | bloodletting rituals | a war prisinor was sacraficed to the rain gods by cutting off the tips of their fingers | |
| 208903359 | mayan ball game | slaves would play on teams and try to get a ball into a hoop 20ft off the ground using only their feet. the loosing team was sacraficed | |
| 208903360 | where did the teatihuacan live | in the highlands of mexico | |
| 208903361 | pyramids of the sun | biggest stucture of america | |
| 208903362 | artisans were famous for what? | their obsidian tools and orange pottery. | |
| 208903363 | 2/3 of the city inhabitants of teotihuacan did what during the daytime | worked in fields | |
| 208903364 | cultural defusion | when cultural traditons spread to other societies | |
| 208903365 | decline of teotihuacan was... | sacked and destryed mid 8th century | |
| 208903366 | andean society main crops | beans, peanuts, sweet potatoes, and cotton | |
| 208903367 | andead society... | produced pottery, built temples and pyramids, did not write, fished and made fishing nets | |
| 208903368 | mochica | famous for painting on pottery and ceramics. NO WRITING | |
| 208903369 | human migrants arrived in australia and new guinea when? | 60,000 yrs ago at least | |
| 208903370 | australia | hunting and gathering until the 19th and 20th centuries | |
| 208903371 | new guinea | turned to agriculture | |
| 208903372 | what is the difference between australia and new guinea | australia has tribes, hunting, and gathering. new guinea has real agriculture | |
| 208903373 | lapita society | earliest know human settlement who knew about austronesian settlement, communication and trade is pottery, obsidian, shells, and tools | |
| 208903374 | hierarchical chiefdoms | tension led to migration |
