River where many of the native american mound building civilization settled.
What was the Mississippi River?
100
Early civilization religion that was based on agricultural productivity and natural environment.
What was the Mississippian religion?
100
Each city-state was ruled by a king. They believed that their king was given the right to rule by the gods.
Who were the Mayans?
100
In Mayan and Aztec cultures there were no jails, so not paying debts or committing a crime resulted in becoming a member of this lowest class.
What is a slave?
100
Aztecs are often credited to inventing this common snack, but actually help promote the spread of this common snack.
What is popcorn?
200
Present day country where the Aztecs settled.
What is Mexico or central Mexico?
200
Name given to the worship of many God's.
What is POLYTHEISTIC?
200
Early civilization government organized into empire. The emperor ruled over all. City-states were run by city leaders at the center. Clans or groups of families lived in the city-states.
Who were the Aztecs?
200
Aztecs had many different social classes of people this class was high and usually considered a class in itself.
What is the Warrior class?
200
Mayans were credited with inventing this number.
What is the number zero?
300
South American mountainside where the Incas flourished.
What are the Andes Mountains?
300
Ancient Mayans and Aztecs played ball games such as pok-a-tok and losers of the games sometimes suffered this fate done in order to please the gods of their religion.
What is human sacrifice?
300
Mississippian community leader based on kinship,in which formal leadership is placed in senior members of select families or 'houses'.
What is a chiefdom?
300
Boys trained to become soldiers from an early age. Soldiers captured their enemies and forced some of them into slavery
Who were the Aztecs?
300
First real towns were built on these large, rectangular, flat-top areas grouped in plazas or squares.
What are mounds?
400
Mayan civilization inhabited what today is Guatemala, Belize and this peninsula.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
400
Aztecs, Incas and Mayans believed the god must be kept happy or this event would not happen?
What is sun rising?
400
Name for type of government Inca civilization where emperor was only ruler and all other officials advised him.
What is a monarchy?
400
Social structure of this society mainly organized around farming.
Who were the Mississippians?
400
Pictures made by the Mayan culture consisting of tiny bits of stone, glass and paper.
What are mosaics?
500
13th century date which the Aztecs and Inca's have in common as a rough start date to their early civilizations.
What is 1200 AD?
500
Ancient Civilization that practiced burying the dead in the home to keep them close.
Who were the Mayans?
500
Name of highest form of Inca government that ruled from the capital city of Cuzco.
Who were the Sapa Inca?
500
The basic unit of Inca society which was made up of a number of families that worked together almost like one large family. Everyone in the empire was part of it.
What is an ayllu?
500
Incas used this series of strings, tied by a chord, to portray different numbers, such as numbers within a decimal system.