Age of Exploration - Global Studies 1 Flashcards
How did first Americans arrive
Bering Strait
Beringla
Land bridge between Alaska and Asia, exists due to sea level dropping
Amerindians
First Americans/nomads
Where were the first American civilizations
Mezoamerica (central)
Staple crop of Amerindians
Maize (corn)
“Those who grow maize”
Maya Civilization
Yucatán Peninsula
Maya Civilization
Cacao tree
Provide Mayans chocolate (drink), and cocoa beans
Chimampas
Long floating plots of farmland built into riverbeds and shallow lakes
Mayan society
Kings, Council & Priests, Nobles, Middle class, and Farmers
Itzamma
Mayan god, supreme gods, creator of all things
Mayan Religious practices
Human sacrifice, Ball court (ceremonial sacrifice of defeated players)
Long Count
Mayan lunar calendar that called for the end of the current cycle of 5,200 years in the solar-calendar
Toltecs
Ended Mayan civilization
Quetzalcoatl
Half-human, half deity in the form of a serpent (Toltec god)
Tenochititlán
Aztec Capital, centered around massive pyramids with shrines
Aztec Society
Monarchy, chosen by gods. Commoners sells themselves into slavery when I’m debt then purchase freedom. Rigid social classes
Calpullis
Large groups of families in Aztec society, paid taxes as one group, maintained their own schools, chinampas
Aztec religion
Polytheistic, over 100 deities, human sacrifices
Quatzalcontal
Feathered serpent representing creation, virtue, learning, and culture
South America geography
Amazon River, southern prairies and steppes, and Andes Mountains in west
Beginning of South American
First settlements at caral along supe river
Moche civilizations develops around Chan Chan on the coast of Peru
Chinor kingdom develops around Chan
Pachakuti
lead Incas to conquer Chimor and Peru
Tahuantinsuyu
“World of the four corners”, Incan empire divided into provinces
Cuzzo
Incan Capital, surrounded by Andes
Incan Roads
24,800 of roads, Columbia to Chile, suspension bridges of branded fiber
Incan society
Mostly farmers, Terrace agriculture, labor regulated by state
Incan culture
Focused on war, supplies carried by llamas, polytheistic