Andes Flashcards

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What made up the norther area? how many rivers crossed it?

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Peruvian coastal plain; 40 short rivers

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Two poles of the Andean civilization developed:

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N. coast of peru, S-central andes

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___ Major centres developed. Where were the two largest?

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4, Chacama-Moche and Motupe-Lambayeque

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When did the Tiwanaku state flourish?

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1AD

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What brought the regions of the highlands and the coast together?

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Religious beliefs

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only ___% of the desert can be farmed

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10

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Major changes occured when maize was introduced and irrigation developed around _____

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2500BC

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What provided sufficient calories of rapid community growth?

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unique maritime resources; 60% of carrying capacity of 6.5mill ppl supported

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What foods were traded between the highlands and the coast?

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fish and seaweed for carbohydrate foods

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What led to dense pop’ns? What lead to new economies?

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Reliance on maritime resources; irrigation, maize, and trade

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Coastal pop’ns relied on the ocean for ____% of subsistence

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90%

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When were there sedentary villages of several hundred people along the N coast? What is this site called?

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2500-1800BC; Huaca Prieta

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When do we see cotton weaving and a wave of monumental construction? Textiles were important and distinctive b/w coast and highlands

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Initial Period

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Where were the first complex societies on the coast? When?

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Caral; 5000yrs ago

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Where is Aspero (rio Supe)? what is the one mound? - when?

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Caral, Huaca de los Idolos- 3055BC

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When was caral a large kingdom? how many centres?

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2600BC - 17 centres

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What industrial crops were at caral? When was it abandoned?

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cotton and guords; between 2000-1500BC. LARGEST SETTLEMENT AT TIME, EARLIEST PRE-INDUSTRIAL STATE

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When was there interacting chiefdoms along the north and central coast?

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1800BC

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Where is the oldest U-shaped ceremonial complex ca 1800BC? Where was the same pattern (no resident quarters) at 1700BC?

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El Parasio; Huaca Florida

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Where do we see burnt offereings?

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Kotosh

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Where do we see channelled water?

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Chavin de Huantar

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By 1400BC Sechin Alto was constructed where?

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the Casma Valley

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When do we get platforms and sunken courts?

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2000BC

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There are ____ signs of burial rituals and social ranking in the initial period

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few

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Where was the Chavin art style distinctive?
highland Peru
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When was the early horizon when civilization began? In Chavin de Huantar?
900BC; 1500BC
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What is Lanzon? What does chavin art reflect?
jaguar-like human; transformations
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Where did art originate?
tropical forests
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When did the Chavin decline? max pop'n size?
600BC; 2-3000
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What site is like Chavin?
Huaricoto - 2000-200BC
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What was the Kotosh religious tradition?
sacrificial hearths; period of disruptions not unification
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When do we see fine textiles?
The Initial period and the early horizon
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Where are the most spectacular forms of large cemeteries? (2)
on Paracus Pen. and the Chinchorro culture of S. Peru and N. Chile
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Where is the earliest preserve textiles and when; how many colours? which were prominent?
4500BC on the coast; 190 colours, blue and red
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When do we get finer cloth at the paracas? where was weaving done?
2000BC; on backstrap looms
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When and were was Chipira?
South shore of L. titicaca; 1400BC - AD100
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Who was ancestral to Tiawanaku? Beginning of what tradition? When was Tiwanaku contemporary?
Chipira; stone carving; 400BC to AD100- 1200BC had irrigation and textiles spread to s. coast
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When and were was Pukara a society?
400BC to AD100; NW of L. titicaca
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What societies were around in the Early intermediate period?
Moche (N.coast), Nasca (south), recuay and Pukara in the highlands
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___ fine houses may be admin centre, terracing and irrigation in early int.
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What is the time period for the Moche state?
starts in 200BC and lasts 800 years
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Where is the Moche State located?
Chicama and Moche valleys
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Which site in the Moche was not looted? What were in the sites
Sipan; finely modelled clay vessels and burials
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Whose burial was identified on a Moche Clay vessel?
warrior-priest
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What was the Moche society like?
highly stratified- farmers, fishers, artisans, priests, warriors
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What does Moche art show?
all aspects of life
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What techniques did expert metallurgists use?
embossing, annealing, depletion, gilding, alloying, electrochem. plating
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How were large temples and platforms constructed in the Moche state?
using tax labout
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What lead to the Moche collapse? When?
disasters - EQ and El Niño droughts in the 6th century
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When was the middle horizon in the S. Highlands? What do we see at Tiwanaku?
AD 600-1000; monumental buildings
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What were the first two large political units? What did their collapse near the end of 1st M AD leave?
Wari and Tiwanaku; a large political vacuum- later filled by the Incas
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What was the wealthiest district around Lake titicaca? good ___ country and irrigation farmin
Tiwanaku; llama
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When was Tiwanaku the economic and religious focus for the region? What was its pop'n?
AD 450; 20,000
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Where did the prosperity arise by 600AD in Tiwanaku?
copper working
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What art style is the tiwanaku related to?
Pukara
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When does Tiwanaku collapse? What provided them with food
1200AD; raised field systems
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What was the highland urban and ceremonial centre in the Ayacucho Valley?
Wari
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What god influenced Wari artstyle?
Viracocha
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Who maintained storehouses and roads?
the state- controlled food supplies
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What is the name of the settlement in Wari to exploit copper, lapis lazuli, and obsidian?
Cerro Baul
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When was Wari abandoned?
9th century AD
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Which two cities were a part of the Late intermediate?
Sican and Chimor
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after 700 AD , who filled the vacuum left by the collapse on the Moche coast?
sican; its peak was at AD 900-1100
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When was there a disruptive El Niño? Where did the power shift?
1050-1100 AD; political power shifted west
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Who overthrew the Sican state in 1375? What did they have that was more ambitious?
The Chimu state, large storage reservoirs
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What was Chimu that capital of? How many river valleys did it control?
Chan Chan; 12
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Why were there massive walls at chan chan?
not defensive, but physical and ritual isolation
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What did the Chimu rulers practice?
split inheritance
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How far did the Chimus extend (south) - Who conquered them and when?
lima, 1460s by the Incas
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The late horizon is the ____ state
Inca
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When does the Late horizon date to?
AD 1476-1534
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Who were the early Inca rulers?
petty war leaders
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How many rulers listed from AD 1200 and Ad 1438? is this reliable ?
8; no
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What developed in the highlands in the 14th C?
a powerful military confederacy
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Who rose to power in the beginning of the 15th C AD? What was his small kingdom centered on?
Viracocha Inca, Cuzco
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Who becomes the living god, cult of _____.
Viracocha; Inti
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Who was crowned in 1438? who do they conquer?
Inca Yupanqui; Chanca
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What does Inca yupanki change his name to? What does it mean?
Pachakuti; He who remakes the world
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What is a taxable labour called?
Mit'a
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What lead to upward mobility? When did pachakuti control the southern highlands?
success in battle,; 1450
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Where does Topa Inca extend? what dates
Ecuador, N Argentina, blovia, Chile, conquers Chimu; (1471-1493)
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Which leader moved into Ecuador?
Wayna Capac
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Society was organized into __ age divisions
12
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How many people were a part of the Inca empire at Spanish conquest?
6 million
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What caused probles of military, economic and admin stress?
split inheritance