Art and Architecture
These tents can be quickly dismantled and loaded onto animals or carts, often use by pastoralists
What is a yurt?
This capitol of the Aztec Empire was built on Lake Texcoco with impressive engineering through Chinampas and causeways
What is Tenochtitlan?
This man was able to create a unified "nation" by demanding a high level of loyalty from his followers and promoted allies based on merit, rather than by the traditional method of advancement based on tribal ties and bloodlines.
Who is Temujin/Genghis Khan?
These grasslands are too dry for crops but support pasture animals and are common across much of the center of Eurasia.
What is the steppe?
The Inca used this device of knotted string to record things
What are Quipus?
This meso-american group carried stone for many miles for the construction of temples and for carving massive stone heads.
Who are the Olmecs?
The Inca used relay runners to speed messages along its vast network of roads, through terrace farming, along suspension rope bridges, to this capital city, from far reaches of the empire.
What is Cuzco?
In the 12th Century saw the Emperor become little more than a figure-head as this person became the real ruler of Japan.
Who is the Shogun?
A group that lived in the steppes whose life was centered on herding and seasonal migration
Who are pastoral nomads?
This Meso-American civilization developed a sophisticated calendar system, an advanced mathematical system, long distance trade, and many urban centers
Who were the Maya?
This portion of land given by a lord for a warrior/knight's loyalty might contain forests, churches and towns
What is a fief?
What are khanates?
In 1095 this man called for a great Christian holy war so that the knights who had been fighting one another could direct their energies against the Muslims.
Who is Pope Urban II?
These are the wars sponsored by the papacy during the late 11th-late 13th century.
What are the crusades?
This impressive nomadic groups is known for their skill on horseback including their portable recurve bows and thumb-rings for rapid firing for archers while riding.
Who are the Mongols?
In the city-state the Aztecs named "birthplace of the gods," there were monumental pyramids, and one of the largest urban centers of its time
What was Teotihuacan?
Among the many peoples of the Americas we saw cliff dwellings built, irrigation systems developed in deserts, but these people built large earth mounds here at the largest city in North America.
What is Cahokia?
The Incan Empire was one of the largest states in the world when this man arrived in 1532.
Who is Francisco Pizzaro?
One of the main purposes for the Aztecs frequent wars was to get prisoners to use for this.
What is Religious Sacrifice?
This process is boiling maize in a solution of water increased the nutritional value when making masa from maize and lime.
What is nixtamalization?
Tenochtitlan was laid out on a grid of streets and canals, and agricultural plots built upon reeds and mud that allowed great fertility farming into Lake Texcoco.
What are Chinampas?
These associations of artisans organized to regulate quality, quantity and price of goods produced in towns in the Middle Ages.
What are craft guilds?
The modern day Mexico comes from this group of nomadic people who came to be known as this group after an alliance under their leader Itzcoatl
Who are the Aztec?
This is the term for a warrior who swears his loyalty to a more powerful individual and promises aid and military assistance
What is vassal?
The Inca used this system to move people to do work or labor for the state.
What was the mit'a?