AP World History 1.4: The Americas 2024/2025 passed

AP World History 1.4: The AmericasMississippian - correct answers Were a Chalcolithic (copper age) mound-building Native American culture that flourished in the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 to 1500 A.D., varying regionally Matrillineal Society - correct answers societies in which descent is traced and power is passed on through the mother. Followed by Mississippians Mound Building - correct answers Practiced by Native American societies; a burial of important leaders/warriors. ceremonial. chief lived on top of highest mound. villagers closest to mound were highest ranking. Largest is Cahokia Cahokia - correct answers Largest earthen mound. Mississippian settlement near present-day East St. Louis, home to as many as 25,000 Native Americans' it served as a trading center for 40,000 at its peak in A.D. 1200. city-state - correct answers a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. Mexica - correct answers The name given to themselves by the Aztec people. They created a powerful empire in central Mexico ( C.E.). They forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax. Practice human sacrifice. Theocracy - correct answers A government controlled by religious leaders Human Sacrifice - correct answers Killing of humans for a purpose like worshiping a god, practiced widely by the Aztecs and a little by the Maya Pachacuti - correct answers Ruler of Inca society from 1438 to 1471; grew Incan empire quickly; launched a series of military campaigns that gave Incas control of the region from Cuzco to the shores of Lake Titicaca.