Vocabulary
What is a culture influenced by the Olmec
Maya
What Religion were Maya and Aztec
Polytheistic
True or false:
The highest active volcano is Popocatépetl?
True
True or false:
The Aztec believed that sacrificing captured warriors to the main god, Huitzilopochtli, the god of war and sun, would bring them bad fortune.
false
True or false:
Before the early 1900s, ships traveling between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans had no choice but to sail all the way around Cape Horn on the southern tip of South America
True
a person sent by the king to conquer a group of people
Conquistador
Which civilization was this article mostly about.
Maya
The word "Meso" is Greek for?
Middle
What did the Aztec design.
floating gardens
to what did Around 27,000 workers die to during the project
disease and acidents
Aztec emperor fond of Xocolatl
Montezuma
What animals did the sun show us?
shark and jaguar
Name three other early crops mentioned in Article 2 Summary
early crops included peppers, squash and pumpkins.
How much did the waterway expansion cost?
$5 billion
Fill in the blank:
Finally, engineers came up with a plan to dig a _______ through the narrow country of Panama
waterway
Largest Maya city
Tikal
In what pyramid did archaeologists discover a palace and tomb
Diablo Pyramid
What were the Olmec, Maya, Toltec, Zapotec, Teotihuacán and Aztec civilizations lived in the region called?
Mesoamerica
Maya built wonderful pyramids as temples, which were examples of their what abilities?
Artistic
After years of complaints from the government of Panama, the ________ finally gave control of the canal to Panama in 1999.c v Panama has spent years and billions of dollars to expand the canal
Which country
United States
Main city of the Aztec
Tenochtitlan
What was the name of the temple in the first article Summary.
Temple of the Night Sun
how tall is the volcao called Pico de Orizaba
18,000 feet tall
How did Mexico get it's name?
Aztec people came into the Valley of Mexico, they called themselves the Mexica, giving Mexico its name.
It doubled it.