Name the Person
a person who is believed to have the power to foretell events
Diviner
lived on the southern desert coast and western slopes of the Andes in Peru between 200 BC and AD 650, they adapted to arid regions, famous for colorful pottery, textiles and geoglyphs known as the Nazca Lines
The Nazca
painting done on fresh, white plaster with water – based paints
Fresco
tracing lineage through the mother
Matrilineal
a relatively high, flat land area
Plateau
a special class of African storytellers who help keep alive a people’s history
Griot
powerful Mesoamerican civilization that dominated central Mexico that formed a massive, tribute-based empire, known for advanced agriculture, a complex social hierarchy, and a polytheistic religion centered on human sacrifice. The empire fell in 1521 to Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortés
The Aztec
artistic techniques used to give the effect of three – dimensional depth to two – dimensional surfaces
Perspective
tracing lineage through the father
Patrilineal
broad grassland dotted with small trees and shrubs
Savanna
the 14th-century emperor of the Mali Empire, is often regarded as the richest person in history. he was a great builder that transformed Timbuktu into a center of learning, commissioning mosques and universities
Mansa Musa
Indian people who created the largest empire in pre-Columbian America that built a highly organized civilization with road systems and agricultural engineering; conquered by the Spanish in 1532
The Inca
pioneered by German printer Johannes Gutenberg, multiplies amount of printing presses, encouraged scholarly research and expanded the reading public
Movable Type
a group of related families
Clan
the practice of growing just enough crops for personal use, not for sale
Subsistence Farming
painter, sculptor, and architect. Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, human beauty reflects divine beauty, the more beautiful the body, the more godlike the figure
Michelangelo Buonarroti
influential Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central between the earlier Mayans and Aztecs, known as fierce warriors and skilled artisans
The Toltec
an intellectual movement of the Renaissance based on the study of the humanities, which included grammar, rhetoric, poetry, moral philosophy, and history
Humanism
a member of the middle class who lived in a city or a town
Burgher
corn
Maize
the “Renaissance man,” artist, scientist, inventor, and visionary
Leonardo Da Vinci
pre-Inca civilization that flourished on the northern coast of Peru from approximately 100 to 800, known for pottery, advanced metallurgy, and massive mud-brick pyramids; structured as a series of independent city-states rather than a unified empire
The Moche
the language of everyday speech in a particular region
Vernacular
an extended family unit that has combined into a larger community
Lineage Groups
a group of independent villages organized into clans led by a local ruler or clan head without any central government
Stateless Societies