AP World History-Americas Flashcards

11654121262	Olmec	First major civilization	0
11654126151	Olmec	slash and burn, obsidian weapons, trade routes, traded rubber, animal domestications	1
11654139821	Olmec	Polytheistic, social classes, San Lorenzo, La Venta, Tabasco, Veracruz	2
11654146904	Mayan	Guatemala, slash and burn, crop rotation, stone age	3
11654158427	Mayan	Calendars and buildings, pyramids, bridges, Sacbe (roadways), astronomy, zero	4
11654172480	Toltec	Mexico city, obsidian trade, Topiltzin, Quetzalcoatl, militaristic, buildings, pottery, golden age	5
11654189535	Kwakwaka'wakw	Vancouver Island, fishers, hunter-gatherers, canoes, traded fish, masks, slaves, woodworking	6
11654199771	Athabascans	Western Canada, Eastern Alaska, nomadic hunters, pragmatism, kinship based on 'sibs', powerful spirits, trade with North America, caribou fences	7
11654213325	Coast Salish	North Oregon, north, central, south, traded dried fish, patrilineal, shaman, traditional hunting techniques, oral tradition	8
11654233743	Chinook	traded fur, jardon, killed by small pox	9
11654237943	Mississippian	south US, small communities, clay houses, chieftains, pottery, stone tools, corn based economy	10
11654248581	Mississippian	trade networks, public networks, stone tools, hierarchy government, matrilineal	11
11654269183	Anasazi	four corners, agricultural era, Chaco canyon, baskets, pottery, adobe pueblos, lived in dangerous cliffs, log ladders, kivas, polytheistic, mud and stone structures	12
11654284535	Arawaks	taino, Yucayeque, Quisqueya, agricultural base, slash and burn, traded crops, stone making, weaving, carved canoes, matrilineal, Naborias, Nitanos, batey, polytheistic	13
11654309240	Aztecs	Aztlan, Nahuatl, carved pictures, city states, agricultural base, two calendars, obsidian blades, canoes, polytheistic, Tlachtli, ritual almanacs, sacrifice	14
11654331503	Incas	Andean highlands, Tawantinsuyu, militaristic, Pachacuti: Inca, Topac Yupanqui: extended, Huayna Capac: stopped invasions	15
11654359538	Incas	agricultural base, mita service, barter system, llama caravans, cult of ancestors, split inheritance, Sun god: Inti, Huacas, Cuzco, state bureaucracy, Quechua language, quipu, irrigation system, inca queen linked to moon, system of roads, calendar	16