Norte Chico
With cities like Caral, Aspero, Vichama, the Norte Chico were able to get what they needed from each city through this process.
What is trade?
This civilization was famous for their large sculptures of heads.
Who are the Olmec?
This is the word to describe the selective choosing of seeds to make a plant with certain traits
What is domestication?
This civilization build their capital on an island of the Lake Texcoco (modern day Mexico city).
Who are the Aztecs?
Besides New York City, write the name of one other city in New York State
What is literally any city?- Syracuse, Utica, Buffalo, Rochester, New Rochelle, Binghampton, Geneseo, Skaneateles, Yonkers, Niagara Falls, Ithaca, Poughkeepsie, Schenectady, Saratoga Springs, Elmira, etc.
This modern day country is home to the Norte Chico civilizations?
What is Peru
What is the label given to the Olmecs due to their influence on later civilizations in Mesoamerica.
What is a mother/sister culture?
This crop was fundamental for numerous Meso and South American civilizations as it provided food that was able to be stored for long periods of time.
What is Maize (corn)?
The Maya created these to track time and plan events
What are calendars?
This is the name for the writing system of ancient Egypt.
What are hieroglyphics?
This is the decade that Norte Chico was discovered by archaeologists?
What is the 1990s?
What is through art?
This is a term to describe when a civilization has more food than needed.
What is surplus?
The capital of the Aztec Empire is located in which modern day country?
What is Mexico?
These are three things a DBQ Introduction should have.
This is the mountain range that the Norte Chico relied on, as it provided fresh water sources?
What is the Andes Mountains?
Through belief in their gods and their holy cites, the Teotihuacans were able to influence the Aztecs through this.
What is their religion?
This is a term to describe what occurs to job fields when food is in a surplus.
What is specialization of labor?
This was the largest empire in the Americas prior to European contact.
Who are the Incas?
This is the name for the system that organized Medieval society by rank.
What is feudalism?
These are two ways that the cities of Norte Chico were different than other early civilizations?
What is no signs of walls? What is no signs of weaponry? What is no pottery?
Name one way the Olmecs, and one way the Teotihuacans influenced other socities.
Olmec- What is through city planning? (art)
Teotihuacan- What is through art? (religion)
This is a farming technique used by the Aztecs that allowed them to grow food on a lake.
What are chinampas (floating gardens)?
This historic and possibly religious site was built by the Incas, located high in the Andes Mountains.
What is Machu Picchu?
This is the mountain range that protected Ancient China from invaders.
What is the Himalayas?