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• There’s regions of dramatic contrasts of mountains to dry land
• Sharing this adaptation= verticality |
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• based on 2 interlocking cycles
• 1st = tied to solar years
o 365days
o 2nd day= 260days
• two cycles produced a “century” of 52years |
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• The most prominent Early Formative period
• large cared monument |
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• means= Middle America
• extended from central Mexico into Central America
• Region of great physical diversity
o tropical rain forests
o fertile basins
o valleys |
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| • A Mayan calendar that dated from a fixed point in the past |
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| • Place of settlement of Aztecs after seeing an eagle land on prickly pear cactus |
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• Population more than 150,000 at its height
• Dominated by Avenue of the Dead
• Influence of city extended throughout Mesoamerica |
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• The work of world, finest, most intricate textiles
• these created by brushing away the dark gravel of the desert to reveal a lighter-colored surface |
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| How did the Inca organize their empire? |
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• built the most extensive Andean empire
• Their rule relied on conquest, intimidation and alliances with other people |
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| What role did human sacrifice play with the Aztecs? |
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• Warfare increased and secular and religious authority began to separate Aztecs
• Est. the largest Mesoamerica
• Aztec society organized for war
• “practice wide-scale human sacrifice to provide blood to the sun god |
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| • The Inca city of Machu Picchu perches on a saddle between two peaks on the eastern slopes of the Andes |
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| What problems do scholars face in reconstructing the history of Native American civilization? |
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• Much history of Native Americans is reconstructed only through archaeological evidence
• the writings were destroyed |
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