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5370843397Mayan poiticalDynastic, city state with a kig and powerful warload and arestocracy of priests and nobles governened each city, kings legitimized power by saying they were descendent of gods, Tikal0
5370843398Mayan economicCities made good trade centers, markets with textiles, cloth, flint tools, and jade, cocoa beans were money, slash and burn1
5370843399Mayan religionPolytheistic, calendar, jaguars and serpents, human sacrifice2
5370843400Mayan socialKings, nobles and priests (bureaucrats), merchants ad artisans, commoners, slaves, smash heads, no standing army, codices, ball game3
5370843401What was the Mayan decline?Economy could not sustain the rapid population growth, outstripped resources, bad environment, fight for resources (famine, epidemics, warfare)4
5370843402Teotihuacan politicalDid not conquer5
5370843403Teotihuacan economicThriving trade including obsidian6
5370843404Teotihuacan religiousPyramid of sun ad moon, temple of quetzalcoatle, street of the dead, temples and pyramids7
5370843405Teotihuacan socialApartments and buildings8
5370843406Teotihuacan declineFell to Toltecs9
5370843407Toltec politicalCapital of tula10
5370843408Toltec religiousWorshipped force god who demanded blood and human sacrifice (quetzalcoatle)11
5370843409Toltec socialIncluded cultures of Teotihuacan and olmec, limestone pyramids, ball court12
5371187599Toltec declineDestroyed by chitimecs y mexica, fell into chaos and warfare until the aztecs13
5371187600Aztec politicalEmpire big because of conquering ad diversity, emperor said they were representative of the god, based on Toltec, divided into provinces, dynastic, capital city of Tenochtitlán14
5371187601Aztec economicTrade, famous market of tlatelococ, conquered more ad required tribute, agriculture and chinampas15
5371187602Aztec religiousCalendar, human sacrifice (toltec god created earth and gave themselves up and they demanded to be paid back, more human sacrifice)16
5371187603Aztec socialNobles and priests as bureaucrats, empire, ears17
5371187611Inca politicalRuler was descendent of sun god, pachauti, divided territory, allyus, divided families, mat, conquered people, unified, cuzco18
5371187612Who was pachutiConquered much over inca rule because of his diplomacy and military force19
5371187613What was allyusPeople who worked for the common good.... built canals and roads. These leaders helped carry out orders of the government20
5371187614What was mitaInca public service required (like aztec tribute)21
5371187615Inca economicRegulated by government, upper and lower levels provided for eachother, allowed private trade, chuno22
5371261865What was chunoInca freezes dried potatoes23
5371261866Inca religiousWorship dead rulers, calendars, veracoche, inti, sacrificed llamas24
5371261867Who was verachoce and intiVeracoche- creator god, inti- sun god25
5371261868Inca socialBig ears, language of Quechua, quipu26
5371276931What is gender parallelism and who did thisInca and aztec and men operate in 2 separate but equivalent spheres27
5371529616Holy shrines of the incasHuacas28
5371546990Way statins used by incas as inns and storehousesTambos29
5371546991A class of people within inca society removed from their ayllus to serve per mannerly as servants and suchYanas30
5372156126Mississippi civilizationCahokia, linked by trade, no stone or writing, good at science31
5372156127Mississippian politicalRuler had absolute power, warriors to protect the city32
5372156128What is the Mississippia civilization famous forMounds (Monks Mound)33
5372156129Mississippian declineWars, disease, overpopulation34

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