The Mayan Civilization
The Maya lived in this type of environment, filled with thick trees, heat, and lots of rain.
What is a tropical rainforest?
This modern day country is where the Aztec civilization developed and built its powerful empire in central regions.
What is Mexico?
The Inca civilization developed along this long mountain range in South America.
This civilization built large pyramids in the jungle and developed a writing system using glyphs.
Who are the Maya civilization?
This disease, brought by Europeans, killed large numbers of Native Americans.
What is Smallpox?
This crop was central to the rise of Maya society, forming the basis of their diet and agriculture.
What is corn?
The Aztecs built their capital city on an island in this lake, which helped protect them from enemies and provided resources.
What is Lake Texcoco?
Before the Spanish arrived, this disease had already spread through the empire.
What is Smallpox?
This civilization used chinampas, or floating gardens, to grow food.
Who are the Aztec civilization?
This Spanish conquistador led the fall of the Inca Empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
As Maya society grew, people were divided into groups like rulers, priests, and farmers this system is called this.
What is a social hierarchy?
The Aztecs grew crops on floating gardens called this
What are chinampas?
The Inca grew crops on step-like fields carved into mountains to prevent erosion.
What are terraces?
The Maya developed this advanced system of recording numbers and time.
What is a calendar system, or the Maya calendar?
This civilization fell after a Spanish conquistador captured its emperor in 1532.
Who are the Inca civilization?
The Maya are known for creating an advanced system of this that included the concept of zero.
What is Math?
This island city, built on a lake with canals and bridges, became the center of a powerful empire and was later replaced by Mexico City.
What is Tenochtitlán?
After conquering the Inca, Spain claimed this region as a colony.
What is South America?
The Aztecs followed a prophecy telling them to build a city where they saw this symbol.
What is an eagle on a cactus (eating a snake)?
This Spanish conquistador led the conquest of the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
In Maya society, this ceremonial ballgame was played with a heavy rubber ball and could have serious consequences, including religious ceremonies or even determining the fate of prisoners.
What is Pok-A-Tok
Aztec priests performed elaborate ceremonies and offered gifts to the gods to ensure good harvests and the sun would rise, showing the central role of religion in daily life.
What is religious ritual?
This broader exchange between Europe and the Americas spread disease and goods.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The Maya built many of their cities in this region of present-day Mexico and Central America.
What is the Yucatán Peninsula?
This combination of factors best explains the rapid fall of the Aztec and Inca Empires. (4 in total)
What are disease, superior weapons, alliances, and internal conflict?