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Topic 9
World History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anasazi | made their homes out of sun dried brick (adobe) and stones |
| Maya Civilization | composed of city-states and ruled by hereditary nobles |
| Pacal the Great | Maya ruler |
| Itzamna | supreme god of the Maya |
| Maya calendar | the religious sacred one was different than the solar version and could only be read by trained priests |
| Who were the first people in Mesoamerica to work in gold, silver, and copper | The Toltec |
| Who extended their empire across much of Mexico, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and to the Guatemalan border? | The Aztec |
| Aztec religious belief | belief that there was a never ending battle between good and evil |
| Inca subjects were required to do what? | several weeks of annual labor service |
| What was constructed by the Inca to increase trade and help manage the empire? | nearly 25,000 miles of road and bridges |
| Why were the buildings in Cuzco built with close fitting stone but no mortar? | so they could withstand frequent earthquakes |
| The Inca did not have a writing system but did have a method to keep records using a knotted string called what? | quipu |
| early farming village of the Eastern Woodlands known as mound builders | Hopewell |
| What animal was so important to the Plains Indians? | Buffalo |
| What animal was so important to the Inca? | llama |
| Mesoamerica | name for areas of Mexico and Central America |
| Pueblo Bonito | large Anasazi adobe complex built along cliff walls in the Chaco Canyon |
| Why did some early civilizations practice human sacrifice? | to appease the gods |
| Toltec | first to bring metal working to central Mexico with gold, silver, and copper |
| Tenochtitlan | great capital city of the Aztec, today it is Mexico City |
| Nazca | ancient culture of Peru that left behind lines in the desert creating geometric outlines as well as animal shapes like a monkey |
| How were the Inca able to farm the mountainsides of the Andes? | they used high altitude terraced farming with irrigation |
| Who were not allowed to travel on the Inca road system? | commoners |
| Three sister farming | beans, corn(maize), squash grown together |
| these people lived in longhouses and organized an alliance with 5 other tribes | Iroquois |
| governing body of the Iroquois and how it was organized? | Grand Council - by clans |
| Abandoned city of the Inca high in the Andes today visited by many tourists and the home to llamas | Machu Picchu |
| What are chinampas? | swampy islands farmed and irrigated with canals by the Aztec |
| Who left behind Monks Mound? | Mississippians |
| Hernan Cortes | Spanish Conquistador originally thought to be the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, he is conquers the Aztec |
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