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WGU-IOA4-Native Amer

Native American Cultures

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(AD 300-900), covered much of present-day Guatemala, Belize, and southern Mexico, including the Yucatán Peninsula. Maya location
large stone temples and palaces, maize, beans, squash, cacao, and cotton Maya landscape
developed a complex writing system using glyphs (pictures)--the only complete writing system in the Americas before the Europeans came, mathematicians used the concept of zero Maya civilization
Tikal present day Guatemala
Paleque in Mexico
Copan in Honduras
traded quetzal feathers for obsidian, a black volcanic mineral Maya trade goods
1200 to the 1530 Inca time period
covered the high valleys and western slopes of the Andes and much of the upper drainage of the Amazon River Inca landscape
present-day Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Chile Inca location
Cuzco Inca capital
stone houses and religious buildings,extensive network of roads paved with flat stones Inca architecture
Pachacutec Inca Yupanqui Incan leader
called their nation Mexica Aztec
dominated central Mexico as far south as Guatemala from around 1200 to 1525 Aztec location
Tenochtitlán Aztec capital
Lake Texcoco Tenochtitlan location
religion required daily human sacrifice (prisoners of war were often used) to ensure that the sun would rise the next day Aztec religious practices
Huitzilopochtli Aztec sun God
700 to 1300 Anasazi time period
They built large dwellings of rock and adobe--some of these "Great Houses" had 800 rooms- Anasazi landscape
Anasazi underground chamber served religious or ceremonial purposes Kiva
the earliest Mound Builders, occupied the Ohio River Valley from about 1000 BC. Adena
whose influence spread from present-day Louisiana to Wisconsin to New York Hopewell
The largest Mississippian settlement, near present-day St. Louis, contained 85 burial mounds, including one that covered 16 acres and stood 100 feet high Cahokia
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