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36 Cards in this Set
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Akhenaten’s rule
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heretic pharaoh
Moved the capital to match his new religion that centered on the sun Aten instead of Amun Married to Nefertiti Had some disease that gave him elongated and feminine features |
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Amarna
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where Akhenaten rebuilt the royal capital for Aten
Had a distinct art style in order to naturalize new order |
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Amun
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creator, wind god
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Aten
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sun-disk god
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Classic period Maya cities
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Teotihuacan – beginning
Palenque – edge of the Maya lowlands Copan their warfare was basically just for show, aristocratic pursuit instead of territorial because they were small each had their own style |
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Copan
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large, founding ruler Yax-kuk-mo
Mayan civilization powerful |
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Cuicatlan Canada
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palace set in stone
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Cuicuilco
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had 20,000 people until 100 BCE when a volcano erupted covering it, allowing Teotihuacan to become dominant
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Danzantes
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Dancers” but not actually dancers
depictions of dead elites who were poorly treated |
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Deffufa
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Sudan (Kerma)
Large mud-brick structures (buildings) Nubian funerary chapel(surrounded by graves) |
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Female Scythian warriors
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Scythian Ice Maidens”
also known as Amazon women/warriors tattooed bags of weed Kurgins – tombs Raided towns for gold |
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Herodutus
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Greek historian who talks about Scythians
"Father of History" "The Father of Lies" |
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Hopewell
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trade economy, but trade items are buried with people (?)
900 enclosure monuments in south central Ohio great theatrical spaces linear moonrise goes over them engraved rattles made of human cranium abstract art featuring sensory organs tobacco pipes shaped like animals that live above and underground |
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Kerma
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Middle kingdom Egypt
Urban center of thousands Comprised of mud-brick structures, religious centers nearby Burial mounds, rulers had bigger ones |
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La Venta
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Olmec civilization
built on an island 850 BCE Planned layouts with central axis 30 m high pyramid, man-made island Colossal heads there too |
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Mesoamerican numerical system
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bars – 5
Dots – 1 Football looking thing – 0 1st tier- factor of one 2nd tier – factor of 20 3rd tier – factor of 360 4th tier – factor of 7200 |
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Mesoamerican sport
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precursor to basketball
Olmec started it maybe similar to raquetball |
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Mesoamerican staple crops
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maize, beans, squash
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Mother cultures
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Poverty Point – founded by the great Hopewell religions-political movement, animistic religion
Olmec – centralized animistic religion Chavin – centralized animistic religion Beginnings of civilizations today, founders, religions |
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Nefertiti Resurrected
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after Akhenaten’s death and probably at the end of his life, Nefertiti ruled
She was disliked She sent a letter to request a prince to marry, the prince was killed on his way to Egypt and so was she Her body is defiled and looted, eventually maybe found by the curly headed British Lady |
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Old Kingdom capital
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Ineb-Hedg--Memphis
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Olmec Gods
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shamanism--animal spirit
Were Jaguar!! Maize god Bird |
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Olmec Monuments and Art
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"The Wrestler" statue
colossal heads!! Jade face masks |
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Olmec Ruler
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Tu
they were the colossal heads |
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Poverty Point Gods
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bird god
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Poverty Point Layout
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Auditorium style: big mound in back (shaped like a bird, maybe?), outer mounds (loaf mounds); avenues facing out; lined up with summer equinox; rows facing open space
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Pyramid of the Sun
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In the middle of the avenue, 64 m high, largest in the new world
Mountain of the gods Built over a cave linking over world to underworld |
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Quetzalcoatl
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Elite warriors and sacrificial victims buried here
Founding layer had sacrificial victims buried within it, piled in a cosmogram |
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San Jose Mogote
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Significant because:
Olmec-like site in valley of Juahaen 500 BCE, site of the first Danzante |
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Scorpion King
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Unified Upper Egypt
his conquests started hieroglyphic system ruled Upper Egypt and possibly Lower Egypt too |
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Sphinx
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body of a lion with a human head
benevolent guardian of temples and pyramids |
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Teotihuacan
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Had the Pyramids of sun and moon
Beginning of classic period Had different neighborhoods populated by different groups of people like NYC Sacred landscape, 5000 pyramids |
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Tzompantli
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Mexico, site conquered by Montioban
Skull racks |
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Were-jaguar
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Olmec thing, both human and jaguar characteristics
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Yax-kuk-mo
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Founding ruler of Copan(Mayan)
From Teotihuacan first position on Alter Q |
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Zoser
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Formalized what it means to be a pharaoh, art of it; built a pyramid
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