AP World U2, Chapter 6 Flashcards

249879956	It is generally believed that human beings were living in the Americas at least how many years ago?	15,000 years ago	0
249879957	The first sign of civilization in Mesoamerica appeared at the end of the	second millennium BCE	1
249879958	What was mesoamerica's first metropolis	Teotihuacan	2
249879959	Where was Teotihuacan located?	the Valley of Mexico	3
249879960	The decline of Mayan civilization includes what possibilities?	internal revolt, overuse of the land, constant warfare, and over population	4
249879961	Mayan hieroglyphics were	ideographic and phonetic, becoming more phonetic over time	5
249879962	Who were the people ruling norther Yucatan for sever centuries beginning in the 1000s C.E?	The Toltecs	6
249879963	What was the capital of the Aztec empire?	Tenochtitlan	7
249879964	Who was the patron god of the Aztecs and the unifying focus for the Aztec kingdom?	Huitzilopochtli	8
249879965	What did the Aztecs do in order to postpone the final day of reckoning?	they practiced human sacrifice	9
249879966	How many years has South America been inhabited for?	more than 12,000 years	10
249879967	By 2500 BCE, where had urban settlements appeared?	in the costal regions and river valleys of Peru and Ecudor	11
249879968	What civilization emerged during the first millennium CE in northern Peru?	Moche	12
249879969	Moche civilization?	it was located in a very arid region, possibly the effects of El Nino led to the silting up of its agricultural lands, it had a sophisticated irrigation system, its Pyramid of the Moon covered fifteen acres	13
249879970	Inka civilization arose from the areas around	Cuzco	14
249879971	When was the Inka civilization established?	1400s C.E	15
249879972	Inka civilization?	it depended upon forced labor, it was highly centralized, there was a 25,000 mile road system to tie the empire together, the Inka state was built on war	16
249879973	In North America, when did the change from hunter gathers to farmers occur?	the third millennium BCE	17
249879974	Cahokia	The largest city in North America until Philadelphia in the early nineteenth century, and with a population of 20,000 in the 1200s	18
249879975	Arawak	East of the Andes, the South American culture that emerged in modern Venezuela and made the transition to agriculture	19
249879976	What was the first mesoamerica civilization?	the Olmec	20
249879977	Where was the Mesoamerica's Pyramid the Sun located?	Teotihuacan	21
249879978	Aztec commoners were members of large kinship groups called?	calpullis	22
249879979	The Inka kept records using a system of knotted strings called	quipu	23
249879980	The North American Amerindian society known as the "Ancient Ones" was the	Anasazi	24