exam

Question 1

Major accomplishments all:

Answer 1

1. architecture
2. astronomy
3. calendar
4. math

Question 2

Incan empire

Answer 2

-operated more like US with local and federal government
-ROADS
-Kipu

Question 3

Mayan corn

Answer 3

-Quetzalcoatl
-hormigas
-Parents: Dios Sol, Diosa Tierra

Question 4

turning point for Mayans

Answer 4

761 CE

Question 5

Before turning point

Answer 5

-organized battles
-enslave enemies
-purpose for gaining power

Question 6

After turning point

Answer 6

destroy and kill everything

Question 7

Mayan Classical period

Answer 7

250 CE to 750/761 CE

Question 8

Factors of Mayan Fallout

Answer 8

1. Overpopulation
2. Natural disasters (sequia)
3. resource failure
4. famine
5. erosion, bad soil
6. abuse of land

Question 9

Hernan Cortez

Answer 9

Aztecs, 1519-1521

Question 10

Francisco Pizarro

Answer 10

Inca, 1528-1532

Question 11

effects of explorers

Answer 11

-columbian exchange
-catholicism spread
-spanish colonies

Question 12

mestizos

Answer 12

a person with mixed heritage, especially with European and Indigenous hertiage

Question 13

______ language still exists today

Answer 13

mayan

Question 14

el mestizaje

Answer 14

the mixing of cultures to create something new and unified

Question 15

el mestizaje effects

Answer 15

-new, unified/combination of catholoicism
-music
-food: arroz (espana) and frijoles (indigenous)

Question 16

rigoberta menchu

Answer 16

-indigenous quiche heritage; ran away from Guatemala in 1981
-won the Nobel pace prize in 1992
-important portavoz (speaker)

Question 17

Ero Morales

Answer 17

• most famous indigenous leader
• President of Bolivia since 2005
• airmara hertiage

Question 18

tactics used to fight for indigenous rights: Rigoberta menchu

Answer 18

win international support

Question 19

tactics used to fight for indigenous rights: CONAIE

Answer 19

Form federations
(La confederacion de las nacionalidades indigenas del ecuador)

Question 20

Maya area

Answer 20

ucatan peninsula

Question 21

Mayan population

Answer 21

2 million people

Question 22

Inca dates

Answer 22

1200-1531 CE

Question 23

Inca area

Answer 23

Ecuador - Chile

Question 24

Inca population

Answer 24

12 million

Question 25

Aztec dates

Answer 25

13th - 16th century

Question 26

aztec area

Answer 26

central mexico, Mexico City

Question 27

aztec population

Answer 27

5-6 million

Question 28

Aztec facts:

Answer 28

• city-states
• called themselves “mexica”