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Mesoamerica
The Americas
After 1300 CE
The Aztecs
The Incas
North America
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Mesoamerica
• The Mixteca-Puebla Tradition
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The Aztecs
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• Featherwork of the Aztecs
• Codices of the Aztecs
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• The Spanish Conquest and Its Effects on Incan Art
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North America
• Beadwork and Ceramics in the Eastern Woodland Cultures
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• Woodcarving in the Northwest Coast Cultures
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Key terms
• adobe An unburnt brick dried in the sun; a house made of unburnt brick dried in the sun.
• antiquity Ancient times; former ages; times long since past.
• argillite A fine-grained sedimentary rock, intermediate between shale and slate, sometimes used as a building material.
• cabochon A gemstone which has been shaped and polished as opposed to faceted.
• Chimú A culture centered on Chimor, with the capital city of Chan Chan (in the Moche Valley of present-day Trujillo, Peru),
which arose about 900 CE and was conquered by the Inca around 1470 CE.
• cochineal A vivid red dye made from the bodies of cochineal insects.
• codex An early manuscript book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.
• discoidal Having the flat, circular shape of a disc or a quoit.
• effigies A likeness of a person.
• evangelization The act of preaching the gospel or converting to Christianity.
• First Nation The indigenous peoples of any country or region.
• formline A feature in the indigenous art of the Northwest Coast of North America, distinguished by the use of characteristic
shapes referred to as ovoids, U forms, and S forms.
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Templo Mayor
Scale model of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, showing the various stages as it was enlarged over time.
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Aztec Mirror
This mirror was carved from obsidian on a modern wooden base and is currently held in the Museum of the Americas, Madrid.
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Calendar Stone
The monolith of the Stone of the Sun, also known as the Aztec calendar stone (National Museum of Anthropology and History, Mexico City).
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Chilkat blanket
In the collection of the University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks
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Images of Cuzco
Top: Plaza de Armas; middle left: Temple of Coricancha; middle right: aerial view of Cusco; bottom left: Sacsayhuamán; bottom right: Cathedral of
Cusco
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Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel situated on a mountain ridge 7,970 feet above sea level.
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Mississippi pottery
A human head effigy pot from the Mississippian culture, on display at the Hampson Museum State Park in Wilson.
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Wampum jewelry
Wampum was commonly traded or used as currency by the Iroquois and nearby coastal tribes.
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Navajo sandpainting
One of the four elaborate dry-paintings or sand altars employed in the rites of the Mountain Chant, a Navaho medicine ceremony of nine days' duration.
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• Wikipedia. "Aztec codices." CC BY-SA 3.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_codices
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