Stats: APAH - Indigenous Americas Cultures

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Hint	Culture	% Correct
Collected (and obtained from trading) feathers from sacred quetzal birds	Aztec	100%
Targeted hides towards European and American collectors and tourist	Eastern Shoshone	100%
Builder of City of Cusco	Inca	100%
Constructor of Qorikancha	Inca	100%
Extant in eastern United States	Mississippian	100%
Famous for creation of pueblos, using local materials	Puebloan	100%
Has a series of maze-like hidden passageways below major temple	Chavín	67%
Extant after common era in Peru	Inca	60%
Artisan of circular relief sculpture of Coyolxauhqui	Aztec	50%
Artisan of Ruler's feather headdress	Aztec	50%
Built step-like pyramid atop remains of six others	Aztec	50%
Artisan of relief sculpture of jaguars	Chavín	50%
Artisan of a gold nose ornament with serpent motifs	Chavín	50%
Home of Cotsiogo (Cadzi Cody)	Eastern Shoshone	50%
Performed sun dances (later outlawed by the US) involving dancing, singing, feasting, etc. to honor the Creator for bounty of the land	Eastern Shoshone	50%
Artisan of Maize cobs made of metal alloys using repoussé	Inca	50%
Builder of Machu Picchu	Inca	50%
Major temple conquered by the Spanish and served as the base of the convent of Santo Domingo	Inca	50%
Capital city placed at the convergence of four main highways and unified four regions of the empire	Inca	50%
Built remote royal retreat high in the mountains	Inca	50%
Women wove fine textiles using backstrap weaving, a highly distinguished art form	Inca	50%
Centered in Mesoamerica, mostly south of Mexico	Mayan	50%
Had structure dedicated to ruler Shield Jaguar II's wife, Lady Xook	Mayan	50%
Prominently used corbelled vaulting and long roof combs	Mayan	50%
Builders of Templo Mayor	Aztec	33%
Admirer of Olmec-style mask	Aztec	33%
Believed in lunar goddess who, with her brothers, attempted to kill her mother and was dismembered by Huitzilopochtli who spawned from her mother's severed head	Aztec	33%
Constructor of walls at Saqsa Wama	Inca	33%
Had no written language, so most knowledge from archeology and records from the Conquistadores	Inca	33%
Maize (including black maize) was a principle food source; ergo, they constructed metal versions of crop	Inca	33%
Capital city (theorized to be) in the shape of a puma, with the plaza in the belly, fortress in the head, and central square in the heart	Inca	33%
Exterior of most-important temple originally ordained with gold to symbolize sunshine, as it is dedicated to the sun god, Inti	Inca	33%
Held ceremonies around "hitching post of the sun," which aligned with the sun at the spring and autumn equinoxes	Inca	33%
Artisan of transformation mask with bird-like exterior and human interior	Kwakwaha'wakw	33%
Major city located on an thick oxbow river, with water and a bottleneck as protection	Mayan	33%
Most-prominent mound builders	Mississippian	33%
Rattlesnake prominent part of culture's iconography, large earthworks possibly shaped like them	Mississippian	33%
Original creator of frowning baby-face, pugnacious mask made of jadeite	Olmec	33%
Most affected by market shift away from utilitarian towards decorative vessels	Puebloan	33%
Gathered variety of materials via tributary system with conquered city-states	Aztec	25%
Possibly donated feather headdress to Cortez as tribute to Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire	Aztec	25%
Art often favor figural compositions and zoomorphism	Chavín	25%
Artisan of painted elk hide featuring the sun dance	Eastern Shoshone	25%
Used teepees as portable habitats	Eastern Shoshone	25%
Featured artist tailored work towards European perception of native culture to make a living	Eastern Shoshone	25%
Famed for ashlar masonry, fitting of perfectly-grooved stones to be long-standing and earthquake-resistant	Inca	25%
Preferred abstract, standardized designs in t'oqapu that expressed unity and order	Inca	25%
Builder of Yaxchilán	Mayan	25%
Had structure built by ruler Bird Jaguar IV for his son	Mayan	25%
One complex has multiple buildings with three doors housing above lintels	Mayan	25%
Believed in the Vision Serpent, likely due to bloodletting-induced hallucinations	Mayan	25%
Extant in southwestern United States	Puebloan	25%
Artisan of black-on-black ceramic vessel	Puebloan	25%
Often used adobe bricks to form shelter, though featured site uses sandstone	Puebloan	25%
Used kivas, a circular pit with a wood roof, fire pit, and ventilation; likely for ritual use	Puebloan	25%
Featured artist signed works of fellow tribespeople she did not work on to increase their value	Puebloan	25%
Centered in Mesoamerica, in Mexico	Aztec	0%
Artisan of Calendar Stone holding a sacrificial flint knife	Aztec	0%
Infamous for aggressiveness (e.g. bloodletting, human sacrifices) as aspect of circle of life	Aztec	0%
Capital city of Tenochtitlán, which was seen as the axis mundi (world's center)	Aztec	0%
Built twin temples, one of which dedicated to Tlaloc, god of rain and agriculture	Aztec	0%
Built twin temples, one of which dedicated to Huitzilopochtli, god of sun and war	Aztec	0%
Threw dismembered remains down temple steps onto a circular relief carving	Aztec	0%
Had wide-range of merchant networks that traded historical items, such as Olmec-style mask	Aztec	0%
Gained far-away materials, such as obsidian, due to trading networks	Aztec	0%
Created object thrown into controversy over showcasing in Vienna instead of native country due to singularity and importance	Aztec	0%
Extant before common era in Peru	Chavín	0%
Builder of Chavín de Huántar	Chavín	0%
Artisan of Lanzón Stone	Chavín	0%
Major temple contains a jaguar sculpture, a symbol of power	Chavín	0%
Housed pilgrimage site with a stone that is theorized to have acted as an oracle	Chavín	0%
Elite men and women were occasionally buried with nose ornaments	Chavín	0%
Extant in Wyoming	Eastern Shoshone	0%
Traditionally hunted bison with bows and arrows	Eastern Shoshone	0%
Began using firearms and horses to hunt the dwindling bison population after contact with Europeans	Eastern Shoshone	0%
Artisan of observatory (also known as Temple of the Sun)	Inca	0%
Artisan of Intihuantana Stone	Inca	0%
Artisan of All-T'oqapu tunic	Inca	0%
Notable for building in a trapezoidal shape, stones taping upwards	Inca	0%
Built an extensive trading network, the Carpa Nan, spanning over 25,000 miles	Inca	0%
(Theorized to have) constructed fully-metal Qorinkancha garden	Inca	0%
Made woven goods of t'oqapu, small rectangular squares	Inca	0%
Extant in northwest coast of Canada	Kwakwaha'wakw	0%
Performed rituals using transformation masks, often accompanied by drumming in the "big house"	Kwakwaha'wakw	0%
Extant in Delaware	Lenape	0%
Artisan of Bandolier bag	Lenape	0%
Made bandolier bags with leather as well as beads and silk, both imported from Europe	Lenape	0%
Artisans of a lintel of Lady Xook and the Vision Serpent	Mayan	0%
Had an unusual concept of beauty: favored arching brow and continuous bridge between forehead and nose	Mayan	0%
Prominently featured chac mools which were sculpture half-sitting and half-lying on their back	Mayan	0%
Built a lintel with inverted hieroglyphics, which is very unusual	Mayan	0%
Constructor of Great Serpent Mound	Mississippian	0%
Had impressive city-state of Cahokia, Illinois	Mississippian	0%
Constructed mounds possibly to measure or praise astrological phenomena, like solstices or Haley's comet	Mississippian	0%
Builder of Mesa Verde cliff dwellings	Puebloan	0%
Home of Maria and Julian Martínez	Puebloan	0%
Had many ladders to ascend many ordered, stacked rooms	Puebloan	0%
Developed black-on-black ceramic vessels contrasting shiny black with matte finishes	Puebloan	0%
Thousand-year-old tradition of pottery-making; revitalized in the mid-20th century	Puebloan	0%
Featured artist influenced by ancient mythic figures and popular Art Deco designs	Puebloan	0%

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