Maya 1
The Maya had a sacred calendar. Every 52 years, the first date in both calendars fell on the same day, which the Maya called a Calendar Round. How long was this calendar?
260 days
What number was the Maya place value system based on? (Hint: Ours is based on 10)
20
One of most famous Aztec artifacts is one that depicts the face of the sun god at its center. What is this artifact called?
The Sun Stone
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What was the Incas' greatest technological skill?
engineering
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The Maya priests used their astrological observations and calculations to create...
the solar calendar
The Maya's murals were made with colors mixed from what?
minerals and plants
The Aztecs adapted the Maya calendars. The 365 day calendar was useful for ___, since it tracked the seasons.
Farming
What is a pictograph?
a drawing that stands for a word, phrase, or name
What did the Incas build to irrigate the crops?
They built canals
What did the quality and design of a person's clothes indicate?
Their status
What form of art did the Maya use to make clothes?
Weaving
The Maya used a system of writing using pictures and symbols to represent sounds, words, and ideas. What were these called?
Hieroglyphics
Name some of the arts that the Aztecs practiced.
ex. poetry, music, dance, sculpture
Aztecs did not have enough glyphs to represent everything. What did they use instead?
writing
What month of the year has 28 days?
all of them
A ___ bridge is a bridge held up by cables anchored at each end.
Suspension
Define dialect.
a regional variety of language
The Maya built temple pyramids from hand-cut ____ bricks.
Limestone
What is Saadiya's birthday?
January 20th
one of the Aztecs' most remarkable technological achievements was the constructions of their island city, which was called...
Tenochtitlan
The Incas fashioned valuable objects out of prized gold, which they called ___ __ __ ___.
sweat of the sun
What was Quechua?
The official language of Inca empire
In the Maya system for writing numbers, a dot stood for __, a bar for __, and a shell symbol for __.
1, 5, 0
What is a stele?
a vertical stone slab with carvings or inscriptions.
Poetry in Aztec culture was highly valued. What were the verses of these poems written for?
To sing the praises of the gods, to tell stories, and to celebrate the natural world.
What can an tiger do that no other animal can?
Give birth to another tiger.
What is trephination?
A type of surgery in which a hole is made in the skull.
Because the Incas didn't have a written language, they developed something called quipus. What are quipus?
Quipus are knotted sets of strings .