AP World History: Mesoamerica Flashcards

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