Vocabulary
Another name for corn
What is maize?
Place where the Maya settled.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
Place where the Aztecs lived.
What is the Valley of Mexico?
Polytheistic (belief in more than one god)
What is both?
Invaded by the Spanish in 1519 A.D.
Who are the Aztec?
People who lived in the Valley of Mexico
Who are the Aztecs?
True of false: Mayans grew potatoes.
False
True of false: They built a city in the middle of the lake
True
Built large pyramid temples to honor their gods
Who were both?
True of false: Historians are clear as to why the Mayan people left their cities.
What is false?
Capital city of the Aztecs
What is Tenochtitlan?
Mayan economy was built on
Agriculture (farming)
Capital city of the Aztecs.
What is Tenochtitlan?
Built schools and universities
What are the Aztec?
Year the Maya disappeared and abandoned their cities
What is 900 A.D.?
Farming technique where trees are cut down and burned to make fertile soil and clear land
What is slash and burn?
Three crops grown by the Maya
What are beans, maize, squash, avocado, papaya, and peppers?
Name of the lake where Tenochtitlan is located.
Human sacrifice
What are both?
What are war, disease, and famine?
Sign and symbols that make up the Mayan writing system
What are hieroglyphics?
Mayan farming technique used to clear land and make fertile soil
What is slash and burn?
Legendary bird perched on a cactus with a snake in its mouth that lead the Aztecs to their capital city
What is an eagle?
Played Pok-ta-tok - a popular game similar to basketball and soccer
Who are the Maya?
Year the Spanish conquistadors defeated the Aztecs and ended the empire.
What is 1521 A.D.?