Culture
What is maize (corn)?
Today's country that both the Maya and Aztecs lived in.
What is Mexico?
This disease killed millions of indigenous people in the Americas.
What is smallpox?
This ancient religious ceremony is illegal today.
What is human sacrifice?
The alter people make to honor their lost loved ones.
What is an ofrenda?
To believe in many gods.
What is polytheism or polytheistic?
The Aztec capital's names then and now.
What is Tenochtitlan and Mexico City?
The three motives of the Spanish conquistadors.
What is Gold, Glory, God?
This ancient civilization began around 2600 BCE.
What is the Maya?
The butterfly believed to carry the souls of the dead.
What are monarch butterflies?
What group of people were in the top of the social class system?
What is Machu Picchu?
Who conquered the Aztecs?
Who is Hernan Cortes?
The reason the the Aztec and Maya had similar cultural elements.
What is 'they were close to each other'?
Head bones decorated to look happy and lively.
What are sugar skulls?
The writing system and books of the Aztecs and Maya.
What are hieroglypics and codices?
The mountain range where the Inca lived.
What are the Andes Mountains?
Who conquered the Inca?
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
The Inca used these for counting and record-keeping.
What are quipas?
Brightly colored paper with designs cut into it, representing air.
What is papel picado?
The ancient civilization that did not have a written language.
Who are the Inca?
This ancient civilization inhabited Central America.
What is the Maya?
Three advantages of the Spanish that helped them conquor the ancient peoples.
What are superior weapons, diseases, and alliances.
The reason Tenochtitlan had causeways.
What is 'because it was built on a lake or swamp'?
What is Dia de los Muertos?