The Americas

Question 1

Describe the Americas (3)

Answer 1

Pastoral nomads

There weren’t any in the Americas before 1492

There weren’t any horses in the Americas until European brought some

Question 2

Ancestral Pueblo aka

Answer 2

Anazi

Question 3

Ancestral Pueblo years

Answer 3

860-1130 AD

Question 4

Location of Pueblo

Answer 4

New Mexico
Arizona
Colorado

Question 5

Crops from Mesoamerica

Answer 5

Maize, beans, and squash

Question 6

Common culture of the Pueblo

Answer 6

Chaco Canyon

Question 7

Describe the Pueblo (4)

Answer 7

Large area, small population
Skilled astronomers
Long distance trade
Chaco Canyon–center of turquoise production

Question 8

Hopewell years

Answer 8

C. 200 BC-400 AD

Question 9

Describe the Hopewell (9)

Answer 9

Centered in Ohio
Jewelry, smoking pipes
Predict lunar eclipses
Elaborate burial rituals 
Long distance trade
Conch shells, sharks teeth
Copper from Great Lakes
Obsidian from Wyoming 
Eastern Woodland Mound Builders

Question 10

Mesoamerica

Answer 10

Areas of Central America and Mexico that were civilized before the arrival of the Spanish

Question 11

Maize

Answer 11

Corn

The most important crop in Mesopotamia

Most Mayans were peasant farmers whose lives revolved around maize

Question 12

Dresden codex

Answer 12

The most important surviving Mayan book

One of the few Mayan primary sources left (the Spanish burned all but 4 Mayan books)

Question 13

Zero

Answer 13

The number

Mayans came up with the idea of zero

Question 14

Describe North America (7)

Answer 14

-Less advanced
-Smaller populations
-No large cities or empires
-No fully settled societies until c. 600-800
-Mainly remained hunter gather
-no need to stop because HG worked well
-Chumash, Great Plains Bison.
Hunters
-agriculture risky–few plants that could be domesticated

Question 15

Aztecs 3 Ts

Answer 15

Terror
Tributes
Trade

Question 16

What kind of sacrifices do the Aztecs do every night?

Answer 16

Human bodies for blood EVERY NIGHT

Question 17

Who were the Aztecs conquered by?

Answer 17

Spaniards

Question 18

Cahokia

Answer 18

c. 900–1250 AD
10,000 people
Stratified society
Made possible by maize, beans, and squash

Question 19

Aztec Empire

Answer 19

Mesoamerican region
Years: 1325--1519
Tenochtitlan, the capital, huge causeways
Ruled by terror, tribute, and trade
Fought flower wars
Chinampa
Pochteca

Question 20

Flower wars

Answer 20

Ritual battles to capture sacrificial victims

Question 21

Chinampa

Answer 21

Massive floating gardens, used to grow food

Question 22

Pochteca

Answer 22

Private class of merchants who controlled long distance trade

Question 23

Inca Empire

Answer 23

Andean region
Years:1438--1532
Cuzco-the capital
25,000 miles of road
State controlling production and distribution at different altitudes
Chasqui

Question 24

Chasqui

Answer 24

Relay runner on Inca road–messages delivered very quickly

Question 25

What is the name of the great Aztec market that impressed Herman Cortes?

Answer 25

Tlatelolco

Question 26

How many people could trade at that market?

Answer 26

600,000 people

Question 27

What two things did the Aztecs use as currency?

Answer 27

Cocoa beans and folded cloth

Question 28

Who was responsible for trade circulation in Mesoamerica?

Answer 28

Pochteca