WC Extra Credit Project
Noah's extra credit
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- Anasazi
- a group of american peoples, who established an agricultureal community in the Western United States. They also created roads and irrigation systems.
- Hopewell
- A people group who lived in the Ohio reigon and foraged for metals, and manufactured various items around the 3rd Millennium BCE.
- Teotihuacan
- first major metropolis in Mesoamerica, collapsed around 800 CE. It is most remembered for the gigantic "pyramid of the sun".
- Tikal
- a metropolitan Mayan city in the 1st millennium CE with a population of up to 100,000.
- Maya
- a civilization East of the valley of Mexico. It was highly agricultural, especially its production of cacao trees.
- Olmec
- the first culture in Mesoamerica. It was intensively agricultural, and also remembered for its carved rock formations, pyramids, heiroglyphics, their religion, and their trading network.
- Chavin
- an archeological site in South America containing a stone temple and a system of underground canals. it reached its height during the 1st Melinnium C.E..
- Yuccatan
- the peninsula in Mesoamerica on which many early American civilizations flourished in the first Millenium CE.
- Moche
- an advanced civilization in northern Peru, in the Moche river valley. The capital had giant pyramids, covering up to fifteen acres in size. It also produced lots of valubale articacts
- Cahokia
- a site near St. Louis where a giant burial mound was found, along with countless smaller ones. It was clearly the administrative capitol of its area.
- Copan
- a city state of the Yuccatan peninsula that erected a grand palace. It collapsed suddenly in 822 CE.