Clayton Exam 3

Which society had the ballgame

Olmec

Which society had the colossal heads

Olmec1

What is the formative period?

The beginning of sedentary farming villages, social inequality, and exchange of goods and ideas

Highland resources:

volcanic stone, obsidian, hunting equipment, mirrors

lowland resurces

chocolate, birds and feathers, cotton, rubber

Key ethnohistorical documents of the Aztec

Aztec codices: illustrated folded books

Florentine codex

12 books that hold religion and beliefs

Lord of the underworld

Mictlantecuhtli

Invasion of Mexico was led by

Hernan Cortes

Inka official language

Quecha

Ethnohistoric sources of the Inka

accounts by conquistadors, missionaries, and chroniclers of Inka spanish decent

What was the flow of goods and ideas of the Inka?

labor tax and tribute items like Maize

environment of the olmec

tropical lowlands, tierra caliente

environemnt of the maya

split between lowland and highlands, covered all tierras

environment of the aztec

arid highlands

environment of the inka

arid highlands, covered all tierras