Americas post classical Flashcards
What Maya cities constructed ball courts, temples, and cenotes?
the Mayapan, e.g., in the Yucatan region
The Cahokia were mound builders in the Illinois region, how did they build them?
They built these in layers/levels up to 100 ft. high and covering as much as 13 acres
Mesa Verde in SW CO and Chaco in NW NM-
possibly ended due to drought. They consisted of 10s of 1000s in population at some point. These people were cliff dwellers, using kiva for religious activities.
Aztecs created an empire with a capital city called _______.
Tenochtitlan
Aztecs-
have some writing and practiced human sacrifice to appease the gods and dominate their conquered peoples
Conquered peoples owed the Aztecs what?
had to pay tribute
How did Aztecs train their warriors and capture victims for sacrifice?
they conducted flower or practice wars with nearby peoples
What are chinampas?
islands of built up land were created in marshy areas so that multiple crops per year of corn, beans, and squash could be harvested
The Inca Empire conquered many peoples along the ___ _________ in western South America.
Andes Mountains
What did the Inca’s have instead of a writing system?
they created quipu’s for recording numbers
To overcome difficult terrain the Incas what?
built roads and bridges
Incas also learned to _ at various altitudes?
farm
Incas went by split inheritance, what is that and why did they do it?
- When an Inca ruler died, his title passed to his heir but his wealth and lands did not
- created incentive for the new ruler to conquer other lands
