Chapter 4

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The peoples of the Americas most likely never developed the wheel because they

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Had no draft animals

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The Maya center was located at

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Tikal and Chichen Itza

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According to the Mayan creation myth, the world was created by

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The will and words of the plumed serpent

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The oldest Mesoamerican civilization that laid the foundation for kingship, art, and architecture was

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The Olmecs

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The razor sharp weapons of the Aztec Warriors were most commonly made from

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Obsidian

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The dominant characteristic of the Coty of Teotihuacan was the

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Massive Pyramid of the Sun

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The captives of the Aztec empire was

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Tenochtitlan

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After a conquest, the Aztecs

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Left the local elite in power and ruled indirectly

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First true city-state of Mesoamerica was

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Teotihuacan

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The most prominent of the early Formative period cultures was

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The Olmecs

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The Maya were primarily located in the

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Yuca Tan rain forests

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What discovery help the world understand the complexity of America’s pre-Columbian civilizations

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Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone

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What kind that was most species domesticated

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Eurasia

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What term would be used to describe the religion of Teotihuacan

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Polytheism

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Capital of the Inca Empire

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Cuzco

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Without knowledge of a written language how did the Inca record administrative matters

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Use of colored knots and strings

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The staple crops that were domesticated during the archaic period of Mesoamerica history were

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Maize and beans

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The best-known Olmec works of art are what

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Massive stone heads

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The monumental architecture of San Lorenzo suggest that Olmec society was dominated by an Elite class of

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Ruler-priest

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The Aztec conducted ______ to capture prisoners for sacrifice

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Flowery Wars

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What Civilization influenced the Aztec in terms of religion of mythology

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Toltec

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Civilization conducted an impressive system of roads throughout its empire

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Inca

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The Inca called themselves

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Children of the sun

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The Spanish conquistador who led the conquest of the Inca Empire

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Francisco Pizarro

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The Inca conquered most of Thailand and coastal Peru under their greatest ruler

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Pachakuti

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Ancient city of Tikal is today located in the modern country of

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Guatemala

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Bill 8000 feet above sea level in the Andean mountains is the Incas magnificent city

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Machu Picchu

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Most of the Aztec population belong to large kinship groups is called

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Calpulli

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Noted for hundreds of sculptures and captured and tortured dead enemies

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Monte Alban

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The palace of Palenque I was built by the

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Mayans

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The supreme Aztec God

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Huitzilopochtli

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Spaniard responsible for the demise of the Aztec civilization

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Francisco Pizarro