1.4 - Developments in the Americas

Question 1

Cohokia

Answer 1

Largest mound built by Mississippian culture

Question 2

Matrilineal Society

Answer 2

Social standings were determined by woman’s side of family

Question 3

City-state

Answer 3

A city that with it’s surrounding territory forms an independent state

Question 4

Tenochtitlan

Answer 4

The Aztec’s capital founded in 1325

Question 5

Chinampas

Answer 5

floating gardens built by Aztecs

Increased amount of space for food production

Question 6

Flower Wars

Answer 6

Instigated for more prisoners in 1450. Preordinated time/place + each side had same amt. of soldiers

Question 7

Theocracy

Answer 7

Rule by religious leaders

Question 8

Pochteca

Answer 8

A special mercahnt class who traded luxury goods

Question 9

Mita system

Answer 9

Mandatory public service

Question 10

Quipu

Answer 10

System of knotted strings used to record numerial info for trade and engineering

Question 11

Carpa Nan

Answer 11

Massive roadway system built by the Inca

Question 12

How did the Mississippian culture organize their gov.?

Answer 12

Great Son, priests and nobles, farmers/hunters/merchants/artisans, slaves and prisoners of war (Matrilineal society)

Question 13

How did the Mississipian Culture decline?

Answer 13

Cahokia was abandoned. (1450)

Question 14

Summarize the governing system of the Mayans.

Answer 14

Gov. not centralized; ruled by city-states

Question 15

What was the role of religion in Mayan society?

Answer 15

Priests were very powerful. Religious ceremonies, worshipped dieties, made offerings (captives)

Question 16

How did the Aztecs use a tributal system to control their population?

Answer 16

People that the Aztecs conquered were forced to pay tribute, surrender land, perform military service

Question 17

How was the Aztec gov. organized?

Answer 17

Great Speaker, land-owning nobles, scribes and healers, craftspeople and traders, peasants and soldiers. Women were valueabe b/c they wove cloth.

Question 18

Explain the role of religion in Aztec gov.

Answer 18

Worshipped hundreds of dieties, human sacrifice seen as repayment

Question 19

What led to the decline of the Aztecs?

Answer 19

No wheeled vehichles, no pack animals, insufficient agriculture, constant need for human sacrifice, tribes were rebelling

Question 20

How did the Inca rule their extensive territory efficiently?

Answer 20

The land was split into 4 territories, each having their own govenor and bureaucracy

Question 21

How did the Inca’s Mita system differ from the Aztec tribute system?

Answer 21

Mita system was mandatory public service and tribute system was paying tributes

Question 22

What was the role of religion in the Incan empire?

Answer 22

Inca rulers were reps. for Inti (Sun God). Priests were relay stations for the gods.

Question 23

What led to the decline of the Incan empire?

Answer 23

Civil war weakend military or European disease