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6 Hist Ch 11 BJU HS
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| anthropologist | scientist who study the origins of man |
| appease | satifsy |
| Aztec Religion | -believed sun god had an appetite for human blood and hearts -sacrificed humans conquered in war to appease the sun god -thought their very existence depended on the sacrifices |
| Aztec rulers | -descended from the gods -supported by nobles, warriors and priests |
| Aztecs | believed to have settled in Mexico and was an advanced society with a higly structured economy |
| basalt | volcanic rock Olmecs used to carve stone heads |
| causeways | land bridges |
| cenotes | deep sink holes from which Mayans got their water |
| chinampas | garden islands |
| codex | type of books Mayans made, and was about 8 inches high and several yards long |
| conquistador | Spanish conqueror |
| Decline of Aztecs | -Spanish invasion -weakened by disease |
| Diego de Land | Spanish priest who tried to convert Mayans to Roman Catholicism |
| dikes | walls that prevent flooding |
| Game of Life and Death | -Mayan game -only nobles could play -losers were sacrificed to the gods |
| Hernando Cortes | Spanish conquistador or conqueror who defeated the Aztecs |
| How did the Mayan civilization end? | no one knows, they just seemed to have disappeared |
| La Venta | one of largest and most famous Olmec cities |
| Lake Texcoco | one of the largest cities in the world built on this lake |
| maize | corn |
| Mayan achievements | made advances in art, architecture and literature |
| Mayan architecture | made thousands of sculptures and constructed huge pyramid-shaped temples |
| Mayan calendar | based on the cycles of the moon and sun. Solar year had same number of days that ours does |
| Mayan currency | went to markets to trade goods |
| Mayan food | -maize (corn) -avocados -beans -loved chocolate |
| Mayan homes | -groups of houses surrounded by fields -built their homes on high plateaus, lowlands & rainforests |
| Mayan Kings | -lived in palaces -descended from the gods |
| Mayan literature | -wrote thousands of books |
| Mayan nobles | -lived in large houses near center of city -held gov. positions -architects, nobles, and scribes -NO manual labor |
| Mayan peasants | -lived in small wooden houses with grass-thatched roofs -farmers -laborers -military |
| Mayan Religion | -thought world was a large flat square atop a crocodile god in a pond with water lilies -believed almost everything had its own god |
| Mayan Social classes | -Kings -Priests/Nobles -peasants -slaves |
| Mayan view of beauty/appearance | -preferred long noses and sloping foreheads |
| Mayas | another great civilization in Mesoamerica |
| Mesoamerica | lands from central Mexico to Costa Rica in central America |
| Montezuma | emperor of the Aztecs when the Spanish conquistadors began landing in 1519 |
| obsidian | sharp glasslike volcanic rock that Mayans used to make the blades of tools and weapons |
| Olmecs | 1500 B.C., lived along southern Gulf Coast of Mexico, and declined by 400 B.C. |
| rubber | -Rubber People (Olmecs) -believed to be the first people to use rubber |
| San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan | urban center of Olmec civilization |
| stone heads | most famous archaeological find from the Olmec civilization |
| stucco | fine plaster or cement used to coat or decorate walls |
| Templo Mayor | Great Pyramid |
| Tenochtitlan | one of the largest cities in the world at that time and is where modern Mexico City is built upon |
| Tikal | one of the largest and most magnificent Mayan city-states |
| zero | Mayas developed the idea of zero, and used it to do difficult calculations and keep detailed records |
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