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Chapter 6
Americas and Oceania
Question | Answer |
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Olmecs' politics | In several regions, they had agricultural villages and ceremonial centers |
Olmecs' geography | They constructed elaborate drainage systems to divert waters so they did not flooded their fields |
Olmecs' religion | Human sacrafices had been made in their society |
Olmecs' art | They had built temples, pyramids, altars, stone sculptures, and tombs for rulers |
Olmecs' technology | They used obsidian which they made knives axes and other weaponry |
Olmecs' economics | They had cultivated beans, chili peppers, avocados, squashes, gourds, and tomatoes later on |
Olmeca' society | Thier cultural traditions influenced all complex societies of Mesoamerica but there are some questions remaining about their society |
Maya's warfare | Their warfare was not to kill enemies but to capture them in hand-to-hand combat on the battlefield |
Maya's geography | Lived by the Gulf of Mexico |
Maya's relgion | They had participated in religious rituals |
Maya's architecture | They built pyramids, palaces, and temples |
Maya's technology | They discovered the length of the solar year which was 365.242 days |
Maya's economics | Based on agriculture |
Maya's society | They had a large class of priests who maintained calendar and transmitted knowledge of writing, astronomy, and mathematics |
Andean's politics | No evidence of politics |
Andean's geography | They lived in the states of Peru and Bolivia |
Andean's religion | Polytheism |
Andean's art | Built sculptures of their gods |
Andean's technology | Craftsmen experimented with minerals and discovered techniques of gold, silver, and copper metallurgy |
Andean's economics | Agriculture |
Andean's society | There were Hunters and Gathers |
Austronesian's politics | With limited supplies of edible plants and animals, they could not support the communities of foragers |
Austronesian's geography | They were in New Guinea |
Austronesian's religion | No evidence of religion |
Austronesian's art | They had pottery |
Austronesian's technology | They crafted canoes |
Austronesian's economics | Their agriculture depended on the cultivation of root crops and the herding of animals |
Austronesian's society | There were hunters and gathers |
Lapita's politics | They were concentrate on the development of their own societies |
Lapita's geography | They lived in the Pacific islands |
Lapita's religion | No evidence of religion |
Lapita's art | Pottery |
Lapita's technology | Were able to maintained communication and exchange networks |
Lapita's economics | They traded |
Lapita's society | They established agricultural villages where they raised pigs and chickens |
Mesoamerica | Region and cultrual area in the Americas |
Civilazation | The stage of human social development organized that is advancing |
Mother Culture | A way of life that strongly infulences later cultures |
Glyph | pictures that represent words |
Archaeologist | A scientist who studies human history |
Causeways | Wet ground |
Chinampas | A method of Mesoamerican agriculture |
Conquistador | A conqueror |
13,000 B.C.E. | Human migration to North America from Siberia |
8000–7000 B.C.E. | Origins of agriculture in Mesoamerica |
4000 B.C.E. | Origins of maize cultivation in Mesoamerica |
3000 B.C.E. | Origins of agriculture in South America |
1200–100 B.C.E. | Olmec society |
1000–300 B.C.E. | Chavín cult |
200 B.C.E.–750 C.E. | Teotihuacan society |
300–1100 C.E. | Maya society |
300–700 C.E. | Mochica society |
60,000 B.C.E. | Human migration to Australia and New Guinea |
3000 B.C.E. | Origins of agriculture in New Guinea |
3000 B.C.E. | Austronesian migrations to New Guinea |
1500–500 B.C.E. | Lapita society |
1500 B.C.E.–700 C.E. | Austronesian migrations to Pacific islands |