AP World - Chp 6 Flashcards

5846647200	Aborigine	The general name often used to describe the original inhabitants of Australia.	0
5846647201	Americas	People in this region developed complex urban societies and empires without the benefit of large pack animals or Iron technology.	1
7682883820	Chavin	The first major urban civilization in South America (900-250 B.C.E.). Its capital was located high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. Chavin became politically and economically dominant in a densely populated region. Famous for their style of architecture and drainage systems to protect from floods.	2
7682932746	Mayans	1500 B.C. to 900 A.D. This is the most advanced civilization of the time in the Western Hempishere. This is a major pre-Columbian civilization of the Yucatán Peninsula that reached its peak in the 9th century a.d. and produced magnificent ceremonial cities with pyramids, a sophisticated mathematical and calendar system, hieroglyphic writing, and fine sculpture, painting, and ceramics.	3
7682978141	Maya	Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics, astronomy, and development of the calendar.	4
7682995936	Mesoamerica	Means the "land between the Americas". It is a geographic region in the western hemisphere that was home of the Mayan and Aztec civilizations.	5
7683013506	Oceania	a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)	6
7683025799	Olmec	The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E., these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture, wide-ranging trade, ceremonial centers, and monumental construction. settled in modern day Mexico and who traded in jade and obsidian and erected colossal heads carved from rocks.	7
7683055325	Teotihuacan	A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.), it was the first major metropolis in Mesoamerica and is located about 25 miles Northeast of present day Mexico City. Its population was about 150,000 at its peak, and collapsed around 800 CE. Exhibited city planning and unprecedented size for its time. It is most remembered for the gigantic "pyramid of the sun".	8