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        | Cuello Importance, relative date |  | Definition 
 
        | 1200 house platform 900 sweat house
 500 ritual center
 microcosm for maya
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        | Cerros Importance, relative date |  | Definition 
 
        | ~150 kingiship evidence cosmogram in arhictecture
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        | Pre classic- bird cult, masks, weird architecture with relief 1000 bc |  | 
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        | La Tigre, Danta pyramid, huge settlement i n pre classic |  | 
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        | Pre classic relative date |  | Definition 
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        | Early classic relative date, importance |  | Definition 
 
        | 300-600 height of maya power |  | 
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        | Late classic relative date |  | Definition 
 
        | 600-900, warfare instability increases |  | 
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        | Tikal emerges from, relative date |  | Definition 
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        | Ascent to power relative date, cause |  | Definition 
 
        | Defeat of neihbor, Uaxactun, kurl nose the king is helped by teotihuacan soldier 'smoking frog' ~378 AD. |  | 
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        | Storm Sky lineage, importance |  | Definition 
 
        | extends Tikals power, son of kurlnose, who was helped by smoking frog, teotihuacan elements in his grave |  | 
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        | Calakmul, Caracol, taken over by Lord water |  | 
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        | Date of conquest, who conquested |  | Definition 
 
        | 552-662, caracool, lord water |  | 
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        | Relative date, of tikal re-ermegence, under whom |  | Definition 
 
        | 660 ish by Ah Cacau, temple 1, HUGE FING TEMPLE |  | 
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        | Palenque, relative date, location, distingushing fact |  | Definition 
 
        | 431-800, chiapas foothils mexico, no staelie |  | 
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        | had long rule in palanque, iligititmate rule made legitament through strategic update of religion. built temple of inscriptions, was buried under it with pimp as sarcophagus. |  | 
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        | another big temple in planque |  | 
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        | dynasty founder is yat balam, elaborate grid lentils |  | 
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        | violent ass murals, lecture laddy |  | 
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        | quick, enviornmental degreadation, settlers |  | 
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        | stela early writing, cacaco, pre classic |  | 
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        | Petexbatun region, relative date |  | Definition 
 
        | dos pilas, expansion of tikal, nobel famil y is the same, hieroglyphic stairways 600-760 expansion 760-830 rebellion warfare
 830-empty landscape
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        | defneibility walls encamptment |  | 
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        | rebellion dos pilass petexbatun region |  | 
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        | last stand, moats defensibilit |  | 
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        | Possibly the single most important monument at Copan, Alter Q, contains the carved portraits and names of Copan's sixteen dynastic rulers in order around the altar's four sides.  As with many stelae and alters at Copan, Alter Q "belongs" to a specific ruler. -dedicated by yax pac |  | 
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        | Northwestern honduras yax kuk mo- founder- Alter Q- yax pac, honor of founder,
 date 435-800
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        | Oaxca valley, main civiliazation, relative date, particularly of peak |  | Definition 
 
        | Monte Alban, peak= 200bc relative date 900bc-750ad |  | 
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        | Important feature of Monte Alban |  | Definition 
 
        | cosmogram temple present, arrow head structure, temple of the danzante 'dancers' horrible sacrifice victims. |  | 
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        | Early middle pr classic monte alban |  | Definition 
 
        | serious interaction with olmec sites |  | 
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        | Talud-taberno architecture |  | Definition 
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        | competing with teotihuacan until blown up by volcano... |  | 
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        | temple of moon/sun/feathered serpent |  | Definition 
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        | Main product of teotihuacan |  | Definition 
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        | Decline/collapse of teoihucan |  | Definition 
 
        | 600=750 problems followed by violent downfll, too militaristic |  | 
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