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Question | Answer |
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When did human migrations to the Americas and Oceania take place? | after humans established the eastern part of the world |
What did coastal people of southeast asia do around 3000 BCE? | they built large sailing canoes and stablished human life on the islands of the pacific ocean |
since when had humans establish life in almost all habitable areas? | by 700 CE |
By 8000 to 7000 BCE, the people of Mesoamerica began to experiment with the cultivation of what ? | of beans, chili peppers, avocados, squashes, and gourds |
WhatnMesoamericans domesticate? | turkeys and small barkless dogs that they ate. |
What did human laborers and human porters do? | laborers prepared the fields for cultivation and porters carried trade goods back and forth because they couldn't domesticate animals to do that. |
What arose alongside agricultural villages? | ceremonial centers with monumental pyramids, temles, and palacea arose along the villages |
Why did people visit these ceremonial centers? | for ceremonies or markets |
Who started the firs complex societies in the Americas? | the Olmecs |
What does olmec mean? | the Rubber people |
Olmec cultural traditions influenced all other mesoamerican complex societies until what? | until the arrival of the Europeans in the 1600's |
Why didn't the Olmec people build irrigation systems? | since they're was heavy rainfall they built elaborate drainage systems to prevent flooding |
Why did the common subject regularly labor for the elite class? | to building elaborate drainage systems, and alters, but also improving the artistic decoration of the capitals. |
From what central and souther regions did Olmec influence extend to? | of Modern Mexico and beyond that into Guatemala and El Salvador |
How was Olmec influence spread? | by military force |
Since when had the Olmec society fallen? | by 400 BCE |
What did Mayan cultivators raise? | cacao, corn, and cotton |
Why did Mayan kingdoms fight against each other constantly? | It was not to kill enemies, but to capture them in hand-to-hand combat on the battlefield |
What happened to the captives? | Most captives became sacrifices to the gods or died as slaves |
Which Mayan society was the only one that continued to flourish by 800 CE? | Chichen Itza |