Apush Terms Chapter 1 a People and a Nation
Chapter 1
Lady of Cofitachequi: Cofitachequi was a paramount chiefdom encountered by the Hernando de Soto Expedition in South Carolina. They encountered the Chiefdom of Cofitachequi in April of 1540, at the Mulberry Site, a large platform mound at the junction of Pine Tree Creek and the Wateree River, near present-day Camden.
Paleo-Indians: First Americans. Nomadic hunters of game and gatherers of wild plants, they spread throughout North and South America, probably moving as bands composed of extended families.
The Mayas: Developed approximately two thousand years ago. On the Yucatan Peninsula, in today’s eastern Mexico, the Mayas built urban centers containing tall pyramids and temples. They studied astronomy and created and elaborate writing system. Their city-states, though, engaged in near-constant warfare with one another. Warfare and an inadequate food supply caused the collapse of the most powerful cities by 900 C.E., thus ending the classic era of Mayan civilization. By the time Spaniards arrived 600 years later, only a few remnants of the once-mighty society remained.
Teotihuacán: Founded in the Valley of Mexico about 300 B.C.E. became one f the largest urban areas in the world, housing perhaps 100,000 people in the fifth century C.E. Teotihuacán’s commercial network extended hundreds of miles in all directions; many people prized its obsidian (a green glass), used to make fine knives and mirrors. Pilgrims traveled long distance to visit Teotihuacán’s impressive pyramids and the great temple of Quetzalcoatl—the feathered serpent, primary god of central Mexico.
Moundbuilders: Indian peoples of the Ohio River valley who sustained some large settlements after the incorporation of corn during the first millennium A.D.
The Anasazi: New Mexico tribe that destroyed a region with deforestation
Cahokia: The Mississippian culture flourished in what is now the midwestern and southeastern United States. Relying largely on maize, squash, nuts, pumpkins, and
Lady of Cofitachequi: Cofitachequi was a paramount chiefdom encountered by the Hernando de Soto Expedition in South Carolina. They encountered the Chiefdom of Cofitachequi in April of 1540, at the Mulberry Site, a large platform mound at the junction of Pine Tree Creek and the Wateree River, near present-day Camden.
Paleo-Indians: First Americans. Nomadic hunters of game and gatherers of wild plants, they spread throughout North and South America, probably moving as bands composed of extended families.
The Mayas: Developed approximately two thousand years ago. On the Yucatan Peninsula, in today’s eastern Mexico, the Mayas built urban centers containing tall pyramids and temples. They studied astronomy and created and elaborate writing system. Their city-states, though, engaged in near-constant warfare with one another. Warfare and an inadequate food supply caused the collapse of the most powerful cities by 900 C.E., thus ending the classic era of Mayan civilization. By the time Spaniards arrived 600 years later, only a few remnants of the once-mighty society remained.
Teotihuacán: Founded in the Valley of Mexico about 300 B.C.E. became one f the largest urban areas in the world, housing perhaps 100,000 people in the fifth century C.E. Teotihuacán’s commercial network extended hundreds of miles in all directions; many people prized its obsidian (a green glass), used to make fine knives and mirrors. Pilgrims traveled long distance to visit Teotihuacán’s impressive pyramids and the great temple of Quetzalcoatl—the feathered serpent, primary god of central Mexico.
Moundbuilders: Indian peoples of the Ohio River valley who sustained some large settlements after the incorporation of corn during the first millennium A.D.
The Anasazi: New Mexico tribe that destroyed a region with deforestation
Cahokia: The Mississippian culture flourished in what is now the midwestern and southeastern United States. Relying largely on maize, squash, nuts, pumpkins, and