POTPOURRI
It is what the conquistadors of Spain were looking for in Mexico and South Africa.
What is gold and silver?
INCAS USED THIS TO KEEP RECORD OF INVENTORY, MADE OF STRINGS
What is QUIPA
MAYANS ARE FAMOUSLY KNOW FOR THIS MATHEMATICAL CONCEPT.
What is ZERO?
THE AZTEC CIVILIZATION WAS LOCATED HERE.
WHAT IS CENTRAL MEXICO?
They are considered the mother of all civilizations.
Who are the Olmecs?
THE INCAS LIVED IN THIS MOUNTAIN RANGE.
WHAT ARE THE ANDES MOUNTAINS?
THE MAYAN CIVILIZATION WAS LOCATED ON WHICH PENINSULA IN MEXICO
What is THE YUCATAN PENINSULA?
THE SUN GOD NEEDED THIS EVERY DAY TO CONTINUE TO RISE.
What is BLOOD SACRIFICES?
Inca terrace farming and Aztec floating gardens are examples of this.
What is Civilizations adapting to geography?
THE INCAS HAD BUILT THESE THAT CONNECTED THEIR EMPIRE AND SPANNED FOR 2,500 MILES
What is an extensive road system?
THE MAYANS USED THESE TO REPRESENT SYMBOLS (SIMILAR TO EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS)
What is GLYPHS?
AZTECS CREATED THESE FLOATING GARDENS TO GROW CROPS IN THE MIDDLE OF A LAKE.
What is a CHINAMPAS?
It is a technology that the Mayans developed to study astronomy and we use today.
What is a calendar?
This technology helped unify both the Roman and the Inca Empires.
What is the Road System?
THE MAYANS BELIEVED IN THE LEGEND OF THIS FEATHER SERPENT, A GOD WHO WOULD ONE DAY RETURN TO HIS PEOPLE
WHO IS QUETZALCOATL?
THE NAME OF THE PREMIER CITY OF THE AZTECS LOCATED ON LAKE TEXCOCO (present day Mexico City).
What is TENOCHTITLAN?
It is called this when you go to Mexico or South America and get travelers sickness.
What is Montezuma's revenge?
Game played in a court using your hips and making the ball go through a hoop.
What is Tlachtli?
This was the main food in their diet along with vegetables.
What is maize (corn)?
IT IS HOW THE CAPITAL CITY WAS CONNECTED TO OTHER AREAS OF MEXICO.
WHAT ARE CAUSEWAYS?