AP world history ch. 6 quiz Flashcards

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