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US Pre-AP History #1 Native Americans Flashcards

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4797345361Olmecadapted to their environment, obtained obsidian for trade, located in Mesoamerica0
4797346950Mayalocated close to the Olmec, good in mathematics and science, developed a calendar1
4797348044Toltecmaster architects, used gold and copper2
4797348624Aztecmilitary power, human sacrifices, irrigation systems3
4797350277Hohokamirrigation canals, 3 sister farming, separate villages connected by canals, declined around Columbus's time4
4797352219Anasazibuilt pueblos, basins and channels for rainwater5
4797354664Adenastarted in Ohio River Valley, mound-building culture, made wood-working tools, dugout canoes, and nets6
4797360276Hopewelladvanced with artistic mound building, had ceremonial centers, observatories, and burial places, huge geometric earthworks, buried the dead with pearls and trinkets7
4797365754Mississippianfull time farmers who lived on the floodplains of MS river, began around 700 A.D., communities of hundreds or 1000s centered around a plaza, large mounds often topped with temples or residences of leaders, religion connected closely with sun as source of agriculture, when leader died entire family killed to accompany him into afterlife, created and traded highly sophisticated pottery and tools made from clay, stone, shell, copper, and wood8
4797382685Olmec (Dates)1500-1200 B.C. - 300 B.C.9
4797383232Maya (Dates)A.D. 200 - A.D. 90010
4797384638Toltec (Dates)A.D. 900 - A.D. 120011
4797385400Aztec (Dates)A.D. 1200 - A.D. 150012
4797386260Hohokam (Dates)A.D. 300 - A.D. 150013
4797388057Anasazi (Dates)A.D. 700 and 900 - A.D. 127014
4797389448Adena (Dates)1000 B.C. - A.D.20015
4797390274Hopewell (Dates)200-100B.C. - A.D. 40016
4797391725Mississippian Culture (Dates)A.D. 700 and 900 - A.D. 130017
4797393353Maya (Demise)the regions soil was exhausted, invaders from the north devastated the region18
4797395031Toltec (Demise)Tula fell to invaders from the north, by the Chichimec19
4797396159Aztec (Demise)conquered by Cortes20
4797396634Hohokam (Demise)1300s - abandoned irrigation systems due to flood, wars and emigration happened due to competition for farmland21
4797399967Anasazi (Demise)A.D. 1130 Chaco Canyon experienced drought, 1270s reason: epidemics or attacks by hunter-gatherers22
4797404430Hopewell (Demise)mysteriously declined23
4797406682Adena (Demise)turned into the Hopewell tribe24
4797410738Olmec (Demise)?25
4797414805Mesoamerica (Native American Tribes)Olmec, Maya, Toltec26
4797415537Southwest (Native American Tribes)Hohokam, Anasazi27
4797416085East (Native American Tribes)Adena, Hopewell, Mississippian culture28

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