Architecture of the Americas
What can ashlar masonry help to prevent in South American mountains?
What are earthquakes?
Coyolxauhqui’s figure and imagery shows us that she is what?
What is a mother?
What Inkan building had the monastery and church of Santo Domingo built on top of it?
What is the Qorikancha?
What work is still being adapted as materials change today?
What is the bandolier bag?
What does the t’oqapu, or the square geometric motifs on Inkan tunics symbolize?
What is royalty?
Who is the commissioner of the Yaxchilan Central Acropolis?
Who is Shield Jaguar II?
The calendar stone is often misinterpreted as an actual calendar, what is its real purpose?
What is sacrificial?
Why were the cliffs at Mesa Verde most likely abandoned?
What is drought?
Dancers wearing transformation masks in performances means what?
What is their bodies are channeling ancestral entities?
What item allowed the bandolier bag’s patterning to become more curvilinear?
What are small beads?
In the Old Temple at Chavin de Huantar, what did the Lanzon represent?
What is a conduit between Earth and heaven?
Tenochtitlan was chosen as a site due to what mythological story?
What is an eagle landing on a cactus in the middle of the lake?
How were homes accessed by the Ancestral Puebloans?
What are retractable ladders?
Great plains peoples’ artistic style was predated by which painting style?
What is petroglyphs?
What does the cochineal red dye come from?
What are the bodies of small insects that live on cacti?
What geographical cultivation technique did the Inkan empire utilize at their royal estate?
What is terracing?
Why did the Mexica have an active sacrificial schedule?
What is they believed the Gods killed themselves for the sun, so they must be repaid?
Why were young men brought to Cusco?
What is education and to learn the Inkan traditions and culture?
What dance was banned by the United States government but still is referenced in a work?
What is the Sun Dance?
What work’s previous iterations lacked a function and solely served as an accessory?
What is the bandolier bag?
Besides the royal family, who were the other people in what two groups resided at Machu Picchu?
What are yanaconas (retainers, craftspeople) and mitimaes (colonists forced to move)?
How many layers/building phases does Templo Mayor have?
What is seven?
What classic architectural style does Structure 23 exemplify?
What is Maya Classic?
What part of the process makes the Martinezs’ ollas less functional and more decorative?
What is the smothering of the fire?
Who is the qompi, the finest cloth made in the Inkan empire, made by?
Who are the acllas (“chosen women”)?