indigenous america

Question 1

pachacuti

Answer 1

-“earthquake, world changer”

-previously cusi yupanqui

-wrote new history of area w inca in center (said they predicted chanca attack)

Question 2

tawantisuyu

Answer 2

-union of four quarters

-inca’s name for their empire

• at least 12 million diverse people from over 100 ethnic groups

-mit’a labor: every 7 years someone’s turn to do farm, military, or state labor

-forced migration of entire communities. temporary as part of mit’a or permanent

-specific markets owned by states only places things could be sold

Question 3

coricancha

Answer 3

-temple complex in cusco

-temple of the sun

-gold garden

-spaniards fucked it up

-royal mummies, would be brought out and consulted and spoken to for important events

Question 4

inti

Answer 4

-son god

Question 5

the inca empire

Answer 5

-called tawantisuyu

-along andes mountains

-origin legend of a god sending god to earth as a sacrifice. son of inti killed all brothers and led sisters to found city of cusco

-viracocha inca expanded cusco

-got 2600 miles of contiguous territory

-“inca” meant king/emperor
–ppl who lived there wee quechua speakers

Question 6

quipus

Answer 6

-sophisticated way of recording information

-knotted cords, fibers woven differently, sequence of knots, things clumped together

-recorded everything from land measurements and census data to poems and myths

-only certain ppl taught how to makes and read

-could be used as mail

-most destroyed by two events (ruler atahualpa winning a conflict and didn’t want to be remembered as killing his brother, spanish arriving and not understanding so they destroyed)

Question 7

cahokia

Answer 7

-located in the meeting point of 3 rivers

-120 mounds

-mississippian culture

-long-distance trade w copper and shells

-no written language

-ceremonial plazas

-collapse likely due to environmental, political, economic factors or invasion