Urna Moche

English

--- GLOSARY ---

1. Handicrafts → Artesanías

2. Yielded → Rendido

3. Rubble → Escombro

4. Renowded → Renombrado

5. Scepter → Cetro

6. Cache → Escondrijo

7. Coffin → Ataúd

8. Inlaid → Embutido

9. Cane → Bastón

10. Slaughtering → Matanza

--- Question 2 and its answer ---

2. Describe aspectos políticos, sociales y económicos de la cultura moche.

Society

• The Mochica society settled down in very noticeable hierarchies.
• The pyramid of this theocratic society was headed by the Gentlemen, with terrenales and religious powers.
• The priests conformed a second layer that could be integrated by women priestesses, like the Chimus.
• The third layer was the one of the town that made the works of field and the offices. This division of the society in chaste, governed by caciques or priests of different valleys, was united under a single command only at delayed times.

Political Organization

• The political organization era of soldier-slave.
• The one that led everything was a soldier-priest. To the soldier-priest they considered like a person by far knowledge.
• The political organization was formed in two parts: One in the more well-known high class like rich and the other part was the low class or mainly well-known like the poor men.
• The class of the rich ones was formed by people like the priests, soldiers, and those that they administered to the population.
• The class of the poor ones was formed by the farmers, the workers and the slaves.

Economy

• The society Moche has its main base in agriculture, developed in its fertile valleys.
• The main products cultivated by Moche, are pallares, the pumpkin, the maize, the Pope, and the cotton between many others.
• They has in the fishing an important complementary economic activity, to the point that some investigators propose that this one could be the initial base of the economy Moche.
• Another important economic activity in the economy Moche seems to be the interchange of long distance that would be organized in function to muyu or spondylus originating of the zone of Ecuador.
• This effective economic organization begins her collapse with the appearance of two natural phenomena of great magnitude, like is the progressive sanding of Pampas of this region that explains the reduction of the agricultural potential of this region, to at least half of the existing one at the time of apogee of this culture.
• The other phenomenon would be the presence of a mega-boy who changes the climatic conditions of the region.

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