Traditions & Encounters: chap 21 study questions
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- - Large Roads and ruled as elites. Quipu kept track of responsibilities. Nature deities. Priests and Priestesses taught concept of sin. Were celibate but lived together
- What are some of the distinctive features of the Inca society and religion?
- - Men are supposed to become great and honored warriors while women are supposed to bear the children and raise them. Men are to grow up and go into war and receive a gift if they live. Women are to perform many of the taks around the households such as to get water and to grind maize
- What are the expectations for men and women in Mexica society? What does the midwife's speech on page 545 in the textbook indicate about the gender roles?
- - Typical items that Mexica traded were textiles, fur blankets, embroidered clothes, jewelry, and obsidian. Luxury items like translucent jade, emeralds, tortoise shells, jaguar skins, and vanilla beans and cocoa were traded among the elites. The Spanish marveled at many of the items and gems the Aztecs owned as well as their markets and temples
- What are some of the typical trade goods within the Aztec empire? Which items particularly impressed the Spanish?
- - Adopted religious traditions from the Olmecs, Two principal gods- Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl, believed Gods had set the world in motion through acts of individual sacrifice, priests performed acts of self sacrifice, the God Huitzilopochtli "demanded" human sacrifices. Appease the gods
- What are the distinctive aspects of Mexica religion? What is the purpose of human sacrifice?
- - Mexica society was rigidly hierarchichal with public honors going to military elite. Priests were also highly respected. Women had little role in society
- What are the distinctive features of the Mexica social structure?
- - Built biggest (and first?) empire in South America. Complex road systems.
- What are some of the notable achievements of Inca society?
- - The agricultural societies in Hawaii used artificial fish ponds that only small fish could enter but couldn't leave once they grew too large, and they traded.
- What are the distinctive features of the agricultural societies to emerge in the Pacific Islands before the western contact?
- - Military Conquest. They sacrificed POW and demanded tribute from the newly conquered
- 1) How did the Mexica People establish their authority over the peoples of central Mexico? How did the Mexica treat the conquered peoples?
- - Mexica used Chinampa agriculture in which they made plots of land from the dregs of the lake. Very fertile and plentiful.
- What are some of the distinctive features of Mexica agriculture? Why was it so productive?
- - Iroquois people began to cultivate maize in the early centuries CE
- Which societies of North America had developed settled agriculture by the 15th century? What kind of agriculture was it?
- - Depended on the cultivation of potatoes and the herding of llamas and alpacas (camel like beasts)
- What are some of the distinctive features of the agriculture and animal husbandry to emerge in the Andes?