important component of the Aztec and Inca economies. 5. **Huitzilopochtli: He was the god of sun and certain sacrifices were made to satisfy his needs. 6. **Maize: A corn-like food which helped cultivate the way for complex societies 7. Chiefdom 8. Mounds 9. Khipus 10. Ayllu 11. **Mit’a: which is our labor system based on shared obligations to work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations. 12. Llamas and alpaca 13. Verticality (vertical integration) 14. **Waru waru agricultural techniques:
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Chapter 1: Native Peoples of America‚ to 1500 I. The First Americans‚ c. 13000-2500 BC 1. Widespread Settlement a. NE Asia 2. Learned from each other A. Peopling New Worlds 1. 2 dominate theories a. Siberian Hunters i. Crossed land-bridge during Ice Age b. Earlier people traveled by boat 2. Stories confirm that ancestors originated in Western Hemisphere 3. Paleo-Indians a. First Americans b. Established the foundations of Native American life i.Bands
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Cahokia: an ancient Native American city (c. 600–1400 CE)，The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture Mercantilism: Mercantilism is an economic doctrine，dominated Western European economic policy and discourse from the 16th to late-18th centuries. Headright System is a legal grant of land to settlers. Headrights are most notable for their role in the expansion of the thirteen British colonies in North America; the Virginia Company of London gave headrights to settlers
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Chapter 21 A. The Toltec and the Mexica 1. Toltecs emerge in the ninth and tenth centuries after the collapse of Teotihuacan a. Established large state‚ powerful army mid-tenth to the mid-twelfth century b. Tula was the Toltec capital city and center of trade c. Maintained close relations with societies of the Gulf coast and the Maya 2. Toltec decline after twelfth century d. Civil strife at Tula‚ beginning in 1125
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The history of the Native Americans didn’t start when Columbus bumped into the Americas‚ “… it began when their ancestors fell from the sky‚ emerged from under the earth‚ were transformed from ash trees into people‚ entered the world through a hollow log…” (pg. 14). Many people who don’t know any better‚ or just don’t research‚ still believe that before any outsiders came‚ that Natives lived horrible lives; never had enough food‚ weren’t that intelligent‚ and had no concept of “civilized life.” Of
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constructing earthen burial sites and fortifications around 600 B.C. Some mounds from that era are in the shape of birds or serpents‚ andprobably served religious purposes not yet fully understood. The Adenans appear to have been absorbed or displaced by various groups collectively known as Hopewellians. One of the most important centers of their culture was found in southern Ohio‚ where the remains of several thousand of these mounds still remain. Believed to be great traders‚ the Hopewellians used and
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nimbly back and forth from the earliest prehistoric humans in the Americas to the Pilgrims’ first encounter with the Indian they (mistakenly) called "Squanto"; from the villages of the Amazon rainforests to Cahokia‚ near modern St. Louis‚ the sole‚ long-vanished city of the North American Mound Builders; from the cultivation of maize to why it was that the Incas apparently developed the wheel but never used it as anything but a child’s
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Chapter1- When Old Worlds Collide: Contact‚ Conquest‚ Catastrophe I. Peoples in Motion A. The United States is a nation of immigrants B. Even Natives of the country are immigrants from different countries who roamed the land as a strange new world. C. From Beringia to the Americas 1. Beringia is a piece of land that was created because of the glaciers that captured all of the water causing a piece of land to form which was then called Beringia. 2. Berinigia had very tough
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Haley Luu Chapter 1 - Outline! AP U.S. History ! I. Introduction! a. Three things Native Americans had in common! i. They identified themselves primarily as members of multigenerational families rather than as individuals or subjects of governments.! ii. Most emphasized reciprocity and mutual obligation rather than coercion as means of maintaining harmony within and between communities. ! iii. They perceived the entire universe‚ including nature‚ as sacred.! II. The First Americans
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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
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