ARKY 325 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Teotihuacan, Dos Pilas, Endemic Warfare
15 Feb 2020
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Studying 14: first crocodile, had teotihuacan affiliations sponsored by strangers, traditional teotihuacano overlordship (a lord over others, flourished in tiakl-uaxcnin region until 6th century, texts. Identified 31 rulers at tikal after the founder: between ad 292 and 869, uaxcnin similar, crucial development. Increasing role of warfare: deliberate conquest, tikal, became a multi-centre polity, territory had a population of 300 000 and 200 000, city and hinterland, declined in ad 557, prospered in late classic. Palenque: dominated southwestern lowlands between ad 603 and 702. Studying 14: earliest inscription in dec 11 435, possibly earlier rulers, powerful dynast rules for 4 centuries, copan ruled ouirigua, until may 3 738, leader captured and killed, however, copan survived, 749. Smoke shell rehabilitates copan but it"s brief: after ad 771, new political pattern emerges, signs of lesser nobles gaining power, population decline by ad 800.
