4. Aztec Empire: *powerful empire in central Mexico
*Capital in Tenochtitlan
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,*population ~200k
*planted corn/maize
(200 yrs after decline of Mayan Empire)
5. Inca Empire: *Peru/Andes Mnt (South America)
*cultivated da potato
6. similarities between Mayas, Incas, Aztecs: *highly organized (and large)
soci- eties
*extensive trade
*created accurate & scientific calendars
*planted crops
7. the significant difference between Central/South American and North
Amer- ican Native America Tribes: North American Native Americans were
smaller/sep- arate tribes (as opposed to a big empire),
*less sophisticated
8. Similarities between Central/South American and North American Tribes
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, -
established farming systems, language
9. similarities between North American native cultures: *semi-permanent
settle- ments in small groups
*men: made tools, hunted game
*women: gathered plants/nuts or grew crops like corn/maize, beans,
tobacco
*animism
10.language of Native Americans: very diverse, more than 20 language
families & 400 distinct languages
*larges are Algoquian of Northeast, Siouan in Great Plains, Athabaskan
in South- west
11.Relationship between resource availability and cultural lifestyle (in
gener- al): *great concentration of resources also created rigidly
stratified class structures throughout the West
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