Ancient Worlds Exam 5

Question 1

The early stages of the Maya civilization also called formative and had the first signs of political and social complexity also called “America’s first civilization”

Answer 1

Pre-classic Period

Question 2

Civilization in Formative period where kinship was very important and was identified by their artwork w a jaguar and cleft heads

Answer 2

Olmec

Question 3

early maya city, show well planned society for drought

Answer 3

El Mirador

Question 4

site in guatemala with murals that depicted maya creation legends/richly decorated burials

Answer 4

San Bartolo

Question 5

maya city and ceremonial center ruled by the shield dynasty for many centuries

Answer 5

Palenque

Question 6

a sacred almanaic, 260 day calendar with 20 name days and 13 numbers

Answer 6

tzolkin

Question 7

earliest recorded monarch in Tikal

Answer 7

Yax Ch’akiel xok

Question 8

belonging to the Palenque society known for Temple of the Inscriptions built around the crypt/age is debated

Answer 8

Pacal the Great

Question 9

time with cultivation and agriculture,ceramics,tzolkin, and a writing system

Answer 9

Classic maya period

Question 10

olmec settlement/ earliest center had fishing and farming and significant for the colossal heads and stone thrones

Answer 10

San Lorenzo

Question 11

raised walkways from multiple sites to connect

Answer 11

sacbe

Question 12

base 20 system, use bar dot notation

Answer 12

long-count

Question 13

post classic maya center in the northern Yucatan, established in the 13th century

Answer 13

chichen itza

Question 14

way of farming that had elevated surfaces

Answer 14

raised fields

Question 15

member of early dynasty during early classic history at Tikal

Answer 15

Great Jaguar paw

Question 16

skull racks

Answer 16

tzompantli

Question 17

small swamp island, vast monumental stone sculptures and a olmec traded ceremonial center

Answer 17

La Venta

Question 18

major maya center during the mid-first millennium

Answer 18

copan

Question 19

best known lowland site/ has recordings of arrival from vistors

Answer 19

Tikal

Question 20

classic maya city in the mesoamerican lowlands, defeated by its neighbor Tikal

Answer 20

Uaxactun

Question 21

architecture that limits how big you can build. had roof comb

Answer 21

corbeled vault

Question 22

mesoamerica’s first urban centers with a planned community and layout / street of the dead

Answer 22

teotihuaacan

Question 23

southwest part of the valley that had a volcanic eruption and moved everyone to teotihucan

Answer 23

culcuilco

Question 24

major city and state in the valley of Oaxaca during the first millennium

Answer 24

monte alban

Question 25

sun diety that accepts adult sacrifaces

Answer 25

Huitzilopochtli

Question 26

god of water and fertility and accepts infant sacrfices

Answer 26

Tialoc

Question 27

civilization that had hierarchy organizations where warfare is important and rank

Answer 27

Aztec

Question 28

staged battles that the Aztecs used to gain captives

Answer 28

"flower wars"

Question 29

temple w mass graves and the victims had hands behind their back and under ground tunnels

Answer 29

"feathered serpent"

Question 30

end of the street of the dead, had 6 constructions phrases, and burial rituals with each construction.

Answer 30

sun/moon pyramid

Question 31

capital of the Aztec society

Answer 31

tenocititian

Question 32

origin of where Aztecs are from in mexico

Answer 32

Aztlan

Question 33

a temple in aztec civilization which had different sacrifaces for sun diety and water fertility gods

Answer 33

Templo mayor

Question 34

image that represent older civilization to give them credit/ prestige

Answer 34

chacmool

Question 35

another name for the feathered serpent temple

Answer 35

Quetzakcoatl

Question 36

"floating gardens"

Answer 36

Chinampa

Question 37

capital center of the Toltec civilizations

Answer 37

tula

Question 38

an aztec kin grouping used to organize rural and urban populations

Answer 38

calpulli

Question 39

professional traders

Answer 39

pochteca

Question 40

lowand civilization in peru's lambayeque valley, which flourished between 1000 AD and 1476

Answer 40

chimu

Question 41

a god represented in the new temple in Chavin

Answer 41

staff god

Question 42

maya site/ great artictecure

Answer 42

puuc maya

Question 43

politcal/cultural capital of Maya in the Yucatan

Answer 43

mayapan

Question 44

a name for a maya ruler

Answer 44

smoke shell

Question 45

another name for "feathered serpent" a mayan snake diety

Answer 45

kukulcan

Question 46

russian ethnographer who played a major role in deciphering maya script

Answer 46

yuri knorozov

Question 47

a set of written characters representing syllables

Answer 47

syllabary

Question 48

a mayanist scholar who contributed to deciphering maya script

Answer 48

tatiana proskouriakoff

Question 49

also known as "well of sacrifice" that is an archaeological site of chichen itza

Answer 49

sacred cenote

Question 50

olmec sites in mesoamerica

Answer 50

tres zapotes

Question 51

archaeologist specialized in maya civilization

Answer 51

david stuart

Question 52

aztec diety associated with the wind

Answer 52

ehecatl

Question 53

culture in mesamerica that predecessors to the aztecs

Answer 53

toltec

Question 54

intial construction phrase of the temple of the feathered serpent

Answer 54

ciudadela

Question 55

the aztec sun god/ considered the leader of Tollan, heaven

Answer 55

tonatiuh

Question 56

a theory that the Andean civilizations grew from the rich fishery

Answer 56

maritime foundations hyothesis

Question 57

ruler recieved no inheritance to support his rule

Answer 57

split inheritance

Question 58

a massive architectural site in peru belonging to early formative period.

Answer 58

sechin alto

Question 59

two tubes combine together at the top and make sound while being poured

Answer 59

stirrup-spouted vessels

Question 60

labor tribute /people are required to give labor to royal family

Answer 60

mit'a

Question 61

a civilization that had great communication/ mummies were very important

Answer 61

Inca

Question 62

in cuzco, fortified compound and pallace

Answer 62

sacsahuaman

Question 63

archaeological site containing ruins from chavin and major pre-inca culture

Answer 63

chavin de huantar

Question 64

memory device that involves knots and the color/thick ess/etc

Answer 64

quipu

Question 65

inca military site/to maintain peace of outlying areas /like forts

Answer 65

huanuco pampa