Formative Era
This group is considered by some to be the Mother Culture of Mexico.
Who are the Olmec?
The city that the Aztecs called the "Place of the Gods."
What is Teotihuacán?
This City had the largest ball court in Mesoamerica.
What is Chichén Itzá?
The War God who was honored at the Templo Mayor along with the rain god, Tlaloc.
Who is Huitzilopochtli?
The Aztecs/Mexica were inhibited militarily when they were decimated by this disease in 1520.
What is smallpox?
The giant heads found along the Gulf Coast were made of this rock.
What is basalt?
In Teotihuacán, there was significant migration from these people, who writing system is still undeciphered.
Who are the Zapotecs?
This empire, which had their own system of gods, was never conquered by their Aztecs neighbors to the east.
Who is the Purépecha Empire?
What is Huey Tlatoani?
Hernán Cortés left this island to make his way toward the Coast of the Yucatán.
What is Cuba?
This grass was cultivated into corn over a the course of a few thousand years.
What is teosinte?
This site in Honduras has the best known ball court among the Classic-Era Maya.
This group rose to power in the Valley of Oaxaca around 1350 and developed a rudimentary script that could be easily understood.
Who are the Mixtecs?
This term was used for the merchant class that also served as spies for the Aztec empire.
What is pochteca?
He was the conquistador responsible for conquering Western and Northwestern Mexico.
Who was Nuño de Guzmán?
This was a site was a population center for the Olmec between 1600-1200 bce?
The most important deity in Teotihuacán may have been a goddess with this animal feature.
Post-Classic art and architecture featured more influence from these Northern people, including skull racks and halls of columns.
Who are the Chichimecs?
In their early years in Central Mexico, the Aztecs/Mexica were subservient to these people, whom they would ultimately defeat in the 1420.
This city was the site of a massacre by Cortés and his men against people of all ages and genders.
What is Cholula?
Monte Albán replaced this settlement as the power center for the Zapotecs around 500 bce.
What is San José Magote?
These two royal families dominated the politics of the Classic Era Maya.
Who are the Kanul and the Mutul?
This Mayan city had its heyday from the mid 1200s to the mid 1400s and featured very little of the urban planning of previous Mayan cities.
What is Mayapán?
This is a Nahuatl term for city-state, literally meaning "water mountain."
What is altepetl?
This document from the mid 1600s documents the contributions of a Mesoamerican people to the Spanish conquest.
What is the Lienzo de Tlaxcala?