Incas
This system of knotted cords helped the Inca keep records and organize information.
was it Quipu?
The Maya independently invented this number concept, shown with a shell symbol.
What is zero?
The Aztec capital was famous because it was built in the middle of this geographic feature.
What is a lake?
A society needs this kind of food system to feed large populations reliably over time.
What is a sustainable food system?
These were a series of religious wars centered on control of the Holy Land.
What are the Crusades?
According to the Inca lesson, this was the most important tool for controlling such a huge empire because it moved messages, soldiers, and supplies.
What are roads?
The Maya used this base-number system in their mathematics.
What is base-20 (vigesimal)?
The Aztecs built these floating garden plots to grow food and support a large city.
What are chinampas?
Mastering information, records, math, and history fits this pillar of an advanced society.
What are intellectual and data systems?
Many Crusaders traveled to capture this important city.
What is Jerusalem?
This labor system made people work on roads, terraces, and buildings to strengthen the empire
What is organized labor or mit'a?
These folded Maya books recorded information such as history and astronomy.
What are codices?
This Aztec god was connected to rain and agriculture.
Who is Tlaloc?
Clear social classes, tribute, kings, empires, and organized labor fit this pillar.
What is complex sociopolitical organization?
The side that launched the Crusades from Western Europe was mainly this religion.
What is Christianity?
The Inca solved the problem of steep mountains by carving these step-like farming platforms into hillsides.
What are terraces?
The Maya tracked stars, eclipses, and celestial cycles. This field of study is called this.
What is astronomy?
The Aztecs believed in many gods. This word describes that belief system.
What is polytheistic?
The project asks students to challenge Columbus' claim that Indigenous American societies were this.
What is uncivilized or not civilized?
One major long-term result of the Crusades was increased trade and contact between these two regions.
What are Europe and the Middle East?
Put these in order from biggest impact on Inca control to smallest, based on the lesson model: roads, quipu, organized labor.
What is roads first, organized labor second, quipu third?
Give one achievement that shows the Maya were advanced and explain why.
Possible answers: zero, codices, architecture/temples, astronomy/calendars, or hieroglyphic writing, with an explanation about complex knowledge or organization.
Name one way religion shaped Aztec power and government.
What is emperors were chosen by the gods, religion justified political power, temples were centers of power, or warfare was tied to sacrifice?
Name the three pillars used in the project to define a complex or advanced society.
What are sustainable food systems, intellectual and data systems, and complex sociopolitical organization?
Name one reason rulers or nobles joined the Crusades besides religion.
Possible answers: land, wealth, power, adventure, status, or political gain.