Pre-Columbian civilizations - Topa Inca, Yupanqui, Andes

pre-Columbian civilizations

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Introduction
Mesoamerican civilization
- Pre-Classic and Classic periods
  - Early hunters (to 6500 bce)
  - Incipient agriculture (6500–1500 bce)
  - Early Formative period (1500–900 bce)
    - Early village life
    - Early religious life
    - The rise of Olmec civilization
  - Middle Formative period (900–300 bce)
    - Horizon markers
    - Olmec civilization at La Venta
    - Olmec colonization in the Middle Formative
    - Early Monte Albán
    - The Valley of Mexico in the Middle Formative
    - The Maya in the Middle Formative
  - Late Formative Period (300 bce–100 ce)
    - Valley of Mexico
    - Valley of Oaxaca
    - Veracruz and Chiapas
    - Izapan civilization
    - The earliest Maya civilization of the lowlands
  - Early Classic period (100–600 ce)
    - Definition of the Classic
    - Teotihuacán
    - Cholula
    - Classic Central Veracruz
    - Southern Veracruz
    - Classic Monte Albán
    - The Maya highlands and Pacific coast
    - Classic civilization in the Maya lowlands: Tzakol phase
  - Late Classic non-Maya Mesoamerica (600–900)
  - Late Classic Lowland Maya (600–900)
    - Settlement pattern
    - Major sites
    - Maya art of the Late Classic
    - The Maya calendar and writing system
    - Classic Maya religion
      Creation
      Cosmology
      The gods
      Death
      Eschatology
      Sacrifice
      The priesthood
      Rites
      Sorcery
    - Society and political life
    - The collapse of Classic Maya civilization
- Postclassic period (900–1519)
  - Definition of the Postclassic
    - Society, culture, and technology
    - Knowledge and belief
  - The historical annals
    - The rise of the Aztec
    - The question of the Toltec
  - Archaeological remains of Postclassic civilization
    - Tula
    - Chichén Itzá
    - Archaeological unity of the Postclassic
- Aztec culture to the time of the Spanish conquest
  - The nature of the sources
    - Accounts written by the conquistadores
    - Postconquest histories of the Aztec written in Spanish
    - Postconquest ethnographic accounts written in Spanish and Náhuatl
    - The codices
    - Official ecclesiastical and government records
  - Agriculture
  - Social and political organization
  - Tenochtitlán
  - Aztec religion
    - Cosmogony and eschatology
    - Cosmology
    - Deities
    - Mythology of death and afterlife
    - Worldview
    - Aztec ritual calendar
Andean civilization
- The nature of Andean civilization
  - Agricultural adaptation
  - The cold as a resource
  - The highlands and the low countries
- The pre-Inca periods
  - The Late Preceramic
  - The Initial Period
  - The Early Horizon
    - Chavín monuments and temples
    - The pottery of Chavín and Paracas
  - The Early Intermediate period
    - The southern coast
    - The northern coast
    - The north highlands
    - The south highlands
  - The Middle Horizon
  - The Late Intermediate Period
    - The Chimú state
    - The Chincha
- The Inca
  - The origins and expansion of the Inca state
    - The nature of the sources
    - Settlement in the Cuzco Valley
    - The beginnings of external expansion
    - Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui
      Internal division and external expansion
      Administration of the empire
    - Topa Inca Yupanqui
    - Huayna Capac
    - Civil war on the eve of the Spanish conquest
    - The Spanish conquest
  - Inca culture at the time of the conquest
    - Social and political structure
    - Inca technology and intellectual life
    - Inca religion
      Inca gods
      Temples and shrines
      The priesthood
      Divination
      Sacrifice
      Festivals

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