5370843397 | Mayan poitical | Dynastic, 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, Tikal | 0 | |
5370843398 | Mayan economic | Cities made good trade centers, markets with textiles, cloth, flint tools, and jade, cocoa beans were money, slash and burn | 1 | |
5370843399 | Mayan religion | Polytheistic, calendar, jaguars and serpents, human sacrifice | 2 | |
5370843400 | Mayan social | Kings, nobles and priests (bureaucrats), merchants ad artisans, commoners, slaves, smash heads, no standing army, codices, ball game | 3 | |
5370843401 | What was the Mayan decline? | Economy could not sustain the rapid population growth, outstripped resources, bad environment, fight for resources (famine, epidemics, warfare) | 4 | |
5370843402 | Teotihuacan political | Did not conquer | 5 | |
5370843403 | Teotihuacan economic | Thriving trade including obsidian | 6 | |
5370843404 | Teotihuacan religious | Pyramid of sun ad moon, temple of quetzalcoatle, street of the dead, temples and pyramids | 7 | |
5370843405 | Teotihuacan social | Apartments and buildings | 8 | |
5370843406 | Teotihuacan decline | Fell to Toltecs | 9 | |
5370843407 | Toltec political | Capital of tula | 10 | |
5370843408 | Toltec religious | Worshipped force god who demanded blood and human sacrifice (quetzalcoatle) | 11 | |
5370843409 | Toltec social | Included cultures of Teotihuacan and olmec, limestone pyramids, ball court | 12 | |
5371187599 | Toltec decline | Destroyed by chitimecs y mexica, fell into chaos and warfare until the aztecs | 13 | |
5371187600 | Aztec political | Empire big because of conquering ad diversity, emperor said they were representative of the god, based on Toltec, divided into provinces, dynastic, capital city of Tenochtitlán | 14 | |
5371187601 | Aztec economic | Trade, famous market of tlatelococ, conquered more ad required tribute, agriculture and chinampas | 15 | |
5371187602 | Aztec religious | Calendar, human sacrifice (toltec god created earth and gave themselves up and they demanded to be paid back, more human sacrifice) | 16 | |
5371187603 | Aztec social | Nobles and priests as bureaucrats, empire, ears | 17 | |
5371187611 | Inca political | Ruler was descendent of sun god, pachauti, divided territory, allyus, divided families, mat, conquered people, unified, cuzco | 18 | |
5371187612 | Who was pachuti | Conquered much over inca rule because of his diplomacy and military force | 19 | |
5371187613 | What was allyus | People who worked for the common good.... built canals and roads. These leaders helped carry out orders of the government | 20 | |
5371187614 | What was mita | Inca public service required (like aztec tribute) | 21 | |
5371187615 | Inca economic | Regulated by government, upper and lower levels provided for eachother, allowed private trade, chuno | 22 | |
5371261865 | What was chuno | Inca freezes dried potatoes | 23 | |
5371261866 | Inca religious | Worship dead rulers, calendars, veracoche, inti, sacrificed llamas | 24 | |
5371261867 | Who was verachoce and inti | Veracoche- creator god, inti- sun god | 25 | |
5371261868 | Inca social | Big ears, language of Quechua, quipu | 26 | |
5371276931 | What is gender parallelism and who did this | Inca and aztec and men operate in 2 separate but equivalent spheres | 27 | |
5371529616 | Holy shrines of the incas | Huacas | 28 | |
5371546990 | Way statins used by incas as inns and storehouses | Tambos | 29 | |
5371546991 | A class of people within inca society removed from their ayllus to serve per mannerly as servants and such | Yanas | 30 | |
5372156126 | Mississippi civilization | Cahokia, linked by trade, no stone or writing, good at science | 31 | |
5372156127 | Mississippian political | Ruler had absolute power, warriors to protect the city | 32 | |
5372156128 | What is the Mississippia civilization famous for | Mounds (Monks Mound) | 33 | |
5372156129 | Mississippian decline | Wars, disease, overpopulation | 34 |
AP World History: Mesoamerica Flashcards
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