HIST 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pochteca, Flower War, Tlatoani
Document Summary
The olmecs (means people of rubber) of veracruz. Flat, snakelike face was a sign of power. City of over 100,000 people that controlled the valley of mexico. Religion and culture (god of the dead) The toltec and the rise of human sacrifice (950-1224) Tula (north of mexico city) and the toltecs. Calpolli (clan group, ethnic wards of tenochtitlan) Andes- second largest mountain range in the world. 4 climates: coast (now barren, driest place, wasteland), lima rains less than 3 cm/yr but is very fertile, tropical rainforest, the andes (temperate), sacred valley, machu picchu. Highland peru: survival methods in vertical archipelagos . Small isolated groups except ayllu- extended kinship group. Chavin de huantar (1st civization in area) After chavin de huantar, the mocche ( pottery ) and nazca ( line drawings ) (coastal civilizations, many crops) Tiwanaku (lake titica region, ~100,000 people, ~1000 ad break into 2: incas and.
