Aztec
Inca
Maya
Vocabulary
Mixed Bag
100
This is the modern-day country where the Aztec lived.
What is Mexico
100
This is the modern-day country where the Inca lived.
What is present day Peru, Chile, Equador
100
This is where the Maya lived.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula and Central America.
100
Each of the three cultures worshipped many of these
What is gods?
100
These two cultures lived in the same area, but never met each other.
Who were Maya and Aztec
200
This is the name of the Aztec capital city
What is Tenochtitlan?
200
This is the name for the messengers of the Inca Empire.
What is chasquis?
200
This is the chocolate drink used in sacred Mayan ceremonies.
What is xocolotl?
200
A gift of an animal for slaughter to honor the gods.
What is a sacrifice?
200
This culture lived in what is now Mexico, Belize, and a few other countries. They invented a ballgame perhaps similar to our game of basketball. They lived around 1000BC to 900AD.
Who were the Maya?
300
These are "floating gardens" that the Aztec used to farm
What are chinampas?
300
The Inca Sun God.
Who is Inti?
300
This is the number of days on the Mayan SACRED calendar.
What is 260 days?
300
The staple crop of these cultures. Please also explain why it was important.
What is maize? It was their go-to crop. They were able to grow it easily and use it in many ways.
300
This is the continent the Inca lived on.
What is South America?
400
These are items that the Aztec used to trade with (list 3).
What are feathers, seashells, cocoa beans, warrior costumes, crops (maize), cloth, livestock, and even slaves.
400
This is the name for the Inca emporer.
What is the Sapa Inca.
400
This is how the Maya farmed. Name all 3 methods.
What is terraced, raised gardens, and slash and burn techniques?
400
A solid earthen roadway built across water or low ground.
What is a causeway?
400
These strings are used by chasquis to help them remember messages.
What is quipus?
500
The Aztecs participated in this activity to ensure their gods were nourished, the sun would still rise, and the cosmos would not end.
What is human sacrifice?
500
The capital city of the Inca Empire.
What is Cuzco?
500
This is the Mayan social structure.
500
An Incan clan (group of related families), the basic unit of Incan society.
What is an ayllu?
500
These are the three broad groups in Inca social structure.
What are the emperor and his family, nobility, and commoners?