The Ancient Maya
ANT 310
Spring 2009
Exam Reviews
Exam III
Terms,
Phrases & Concepts to Know
Terminal Classic Period
Postclassic (“Decadent”) Period – Early & Late
Puuc
Uxmal
Temple of the Magicians
Chaak imagery
mosaic panels
Putun (“Mexicanized”) Maya
Mayapán
columned halls
Tulum
Itzá
Chichén Itzá
CIW (Carnegie Institution of Washington)
INAH (Mexican National Institute of Anthropology & History)
Quetzalcoatl/Kukulkán
serpent head balustrade/equinox
ballcourts/ballcourt scenes
tzompantli
Sacred Cenote
Temple of the Warriors
Caracol
Castillo
chacmool
Isla Cerritos
Cozumel
Chen Mul incensarios (censers)
trade commodities (various)
market exchange
mercantilism
militarism
migration
Books of Chilam Balam
mul tepal
salinas (salt production areas, such as Celestún & Xtampú, Yucatan)
16 political territories/provinces @ time of Spanish arrival in N. Lowlands
Lamanai (Lama’an/ayin – “submerged crocodile”)
YDL I & II (Yglesias de Lamanai I & II) – the Spanish Churches
Cultural heritage tourism & the Tourism Development Project (TDP)
syncretism
encomienda
repartimiento
mendicant orders
Franciscans
Dominicans
visita mission
Mérida
K’iché
Q’umarkah (Utatlán)
Kaqchiquel
Iximché
corvée
labor
Wajxaqib Batz’
ceremony
Rigoberta Menchú
Hernán Cortes
Diego de Landa
Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán
bow & arrow technology, small
side-notched projectile points
copper & copper bells – currency
Plumbate ware
epidemics (measles, cholera, smallpox)
Terminal Classic-Postclassic transitions
The Reorientation of Maya Society – the Postclassic Period
Spanish Contact, Conquest & Colonization
Chichén Itzá & Mayapán & Tayasal (Itzá capital, Lake Peten Itzá) – the last Independent Maya City-States
Continuities & Discontinuities in Maya Life after the Spanish Conquest, including the Big & Little Traditions