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Ancient Worlds Exam 5 Flashcards

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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”

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Pre-classic Period

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

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Olmec

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early maya city, show well planned society for drought

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El Mirador

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

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San Bartolo

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5
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maya city and ceremonial center ruled by the shield dynasty for many centuries

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Palenque

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

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tzolkin

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earliest recorded monarch in Tikal

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Yax Ch’akiel xok

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

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Pacal the Great

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9
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time with cultivation and agriculture,ceramics,tzolkin, and a writing system

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Classic maya period

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

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San Lorenzo

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raised walkways from multiple sites to connect

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sacbe

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12
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base 20 system, use bar dot notation

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long-count

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

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chichen itza

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14
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way of farming that had elevated surfaces

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raised fields

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15
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member of early dynasty during early classic history at Tikal

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Great Jaguar paw

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16
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skull racks

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tzompantli

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17
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small swamp island, vast monumental stone sculptures and a olmec traded ceremonial center

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La Venta

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18
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major maya center during the mid-first millennium

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copan

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19
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best known lowland site/ has recordings of arrival from vistors

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Tikal

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20
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classic maya city in the mesoamerican lowlands, defeated by its neighbor Tikal

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Uaxactun

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21
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architecture that limits how big you can build. had roof comb

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corbeled vault

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22
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mesoamerica’s first urban centers with a planned community and layout / street of the dead

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teotihuaacan

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23
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southwest part of the valley that had a volcanic eruption and moved everyone to teotihucan

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culcuilco

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

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monte alban

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25
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sun diety that accepts adult sacrifaces

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Huitzilopochtli

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26
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god of water and fertility and accepts infant sacrfices

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Tialoc

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27
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civilization that had hierarchy organizations where warfare is important and rank

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Aztec

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staged battles that the Aztecs used to gain captives

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“flower wars”

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

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“feathered serpent”

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

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sun/moon pyramid

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capital of the Aztec society

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tenocititian

32
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origin of where Aztecs are from in mexico

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Aztlan

33
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a temple in aztec civilization which had different sacrifaces for sun diety and water fertility gods

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Templo mayor

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image that represent older civilization to give them credit/ prestige

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chacmool

35
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another name for the feathered serpent temple

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Quetzakcoatl

36
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“floating gardens”

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Chinampa

37
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capital center of the Toltec civilizations

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tula

38
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an aztec kin grouping used to organize rural and urban populations

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calpulli

39
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professional traders

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pochteca

40
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lowand civilization in peru’s lambayeque valley, which flourished between 1000 AD and 1476

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chimu

41
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a god represented in the new temple in Chavin

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staff god

42
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maya site/ great artictecure

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puuc maya

43
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politcal/cultural capital of Maya in the Yucatan

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mayapan

44
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a name for a maya ruler

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smoke shell

45
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another name for “feathered serpent” a mayan snake diety

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kukulcan

46
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russian ethnographer who played a major role in deciphering maya script

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yuri knorozov

47
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a set of written characters representing syllables

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syllabary

48
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a mayanist scholar who contributed to deciphering maya script

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tatiana proskouriakoff

49
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also known as “well of sacrifice” that is an archaeological site of chichen itza

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sacred cenote

50
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olmec sites in mesoamerica

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tres zapotes

51
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archaeologist specialized in maya civilization

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david stuart

52
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aztec diety associated with the wind

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ehecatl

53
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culture in mesamerica that predecessors to the aztecs

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toltec

54
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intial construction phrase of the temple of the feathered serpent

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ciudadela

55
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the aztec sun god/ considered the leader of Tollan, heaven

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tonatiuh

56
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a theory that the Andean civilizations grew from the rich fishery

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maritime foundations hyothesis

57
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ruler recieved no inheritance to support his rule

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split inheritance

58
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a massive architectural site in peru belonging to early formative period.

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sechin alto

59
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two tubes combine together at the top and make sound while being poured

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stirrup-spouted vessels

60
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labor tribute /people are required to give labor to royal family

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mit’a

61
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a civilization that had great communication/ mummies were very important

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Inca

62
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in cuzco, fortified compound and pallace

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sacsahuaman

63
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archaeological site containing ruins from chavin and major pre-inca culture

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chavin de huantar

64
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memory device that involves knots and the color/thick ess/etc

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quipu

65
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inca military site/to maintain peace of outlying areas /like forts

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huanuco pampa

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