Chapter 6

Online Resources:

Orange- Aztec Empire; Green- Mayan Empire

Iximche- Mayan city ruins in Guatemala

Machu- Picchu, Peru - Incan Empire

CHAPTER OUTLINE

I. The Peopling of the Americas

A. The First Americans

II. Early Civilizations in Central America

A. The Olmecs: In the Land of Rubber

B. The Zapotecs

C. Teotihuacán: America’s First Metropolis

D. The Olmecs: Mother Culture or First Among Equals?

E. The Maya

1. Origins

2. Political Structures

3. Mayan Religion

4. Mayan Hieroglyphs and Calendars

5. The Mystery of Mayan Decline

F. The Aztecs

1. Politics

2. Social Structures

3. Land of the Feathered Serpent: Aztec Religion and Culture

4. Art and Culture

III. The First Civilizations in South America

A. Caral

B. Moche

1. Environmental Problems

2. Wari and Chimor

C. The Inka

1. The Four Quarters: Inka Politics and Society

2. Inka Culture

IV. Stateless Societies in the Americas

A. The Eastern Woodlands

B. Cahokia

C. The Ancient Pueblo Peoples

D. South America: The Awawak

E. Amazonia

Vocab:

1. Amerindians

2. chinampas

3. calpullis

4. polygyny

5. El Nino

6. quipu

7. Hopewell Culture

8. pueblos

9. Pueblo Bonito

Study Help:

1. Description of Aztec society

2. Social & gender roles in Aztec culture.

3. Infrastructure in the Inka civilization

4. Region where the first New World civilizations began

5. Vocab

6. End to the Moche

7. Europeans believed the first humans in the Americas might have been what?

8. Kinship groups in Aztec culture.

9. Size of army the Inka were capable of raising