exam Flashcards
Major accomplishments all:
- architecture
- astronomy
- calendar
- math
Incan empire
-operated more like US with local and federal government
-ROADS
-Kipu
Mayan corn
-Quetzalcoatl
-hormigas
-Parents: Dios Sol, Diosa Tierra
turning point for Mayans
761 CE
Before turning point
-organized battles
-enslave enemies
-purpose for gaining power
After turning point
destroy and kill everything
Mayan Classical period
250 CE to 750/761 CE
Factors of Mayan Fallout
- Overpopulation
- Natural disasters (sequia)
- resource failure
- famine
- erosion, bad soil
- abuse of land
Hernan Cortez
Aztecs, 1519-1521
Francisco Pizarro
Inca, 1528-1532
effects of explorers
-columbian exchange
-catholicism spread
-spanish colonies
mestizos
a person with mixed heritage, especially with European and Indigenous hertiage
______ language still exists today
mayan
el mestizaje
the mixing of cultures to create something new and unified
el mestizaje effects
-new, unified/combination of catholoicism
-music
-food: arroz (espana) and frijoles (indigenous)
rigoberta menchu
-indigenous quiche heritage; ran away from Guatemala in 1981
-won the Nobel pace prize in 1992
-important portavoz (speaker)
Ero Morales
- most famous indigenous leader
- President of Bolivia since 2005
- airmara hertiage
tactics used to fight for indigenous rights: Rigoberta menchu
win international support
tactics used to fight for indigenous rights: CONAIE
Form federations
(La confederacion de las nacionalidades indigenas del ecuador)
Maya area
ucatan peninsula
Mayan population
2 million people
Inca dates
1200-1531 CE
Inca area
Ecuador - Chile
Inca population
12 million
Aztec dates
13th - 16th century
aztec area
central mexico, Mexico City
aztec population
5-6 million
Aztec facts:
- city-states
- called themselves “mexica”
