Chapter 1 - A New World Flashcards
(85 cards)
Empire in South America. Now Peru, Ecuador, chile
Incas
Empire in Central America
Mayans
Mound builders
Indians of the Hopewell- Ohio River Valley
The capital of Aztec Empire
Tenochtitlàn which is now Mexico
City that flourished in the Mississippi River Valley
Cahokia
Western Indians with large structures. They fished, hunted, gathered plants and nuts. Resided in on the Pacific coast.
Pueblo Indians or pueblos
Aztec God
Quetzalcoatl
Sacrifice from villagers and was covered in blood. Believed it gave them power from the Gods
Ziggurat
Aztecs God of war (deity)
Huitzllopochitl
Worship of land & animals
Paganism
Ancient group who was intelligent. Created the lunar calendar, concept of zero, great at geometry. Fed gods their people/ believed in Scarifice.
The Mayans
Believed in virgin sacrifices of girls age 8-12. Elaborate system of roads
Incas
3 advanced civilizations in America
- ) Adena Hopewell- Ohio River Valley
- ) Mississppiian culture of Southwest
- ) Hohokam- Anasazi
Figuring how old civilizations old
Tree ring theory
Name for North American Indians
Neolithic
Group of Indians who were the 1st farmers, tree ring theory, cliff dwellers
Southwest Indians
Group of Indians who were gathers( fishing, hunting sea mammals, wild plants and nuts). Off the pacific coast.
Western Californians/ Pueblo Indians
Small villages the Spanish encountered
Pueblos
Southeast Indians tribes
Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw
Group of Northeast Indian tribes
Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, Onondaga, and Cayuga
We’re Eskimos, had Umiaks(boats), ate whales/seals, and Ituit(gave up your wife)
Northwest (Pacific) Indians
Indians in Plains
Used buffalo for everything. (Food, clothes, shelter)
Spanish introduced horses later on
Indians on the Mississippi River, St.Lawerence to Gulf Of Mexico. Multicultural, Iroquois tribes, lived in Logan( extended family)
Eastern Woodlands
Groups of Indians with 5 civilized tribes. Survived in evergraze, mound builders, serpents( walls reached 100ft) off the Hopewell- Ohio creek
Southeastern Indians