Miscellaneous
A glasslike volcanic rock that the Maya traded.
What is obsidian?
The first people to arrive in the Americas.
What are Hunter-Gatherers?
These were the first people that developed the first urban civilization.
What is the Olmec?
What is the most accepted theory as to how the first people arrived in the Americas?
People walked across a land bridge that crossed the Bering Strait.
Why are the Olmec considered a complex civilization?
Built Impressive towns, buildings, and artwork and had writing and scientific study.
Why was the trading between highland and lowland communities mainly important?
That was the way they obtained essential things that they couldn't get in their own areas.
The crop that established a reliable food source for the people of Mesoamerica.
What is maize (corn)?
The ruler of the Inca who refused to convert to Christianity.
Who was Atahualpa?
The name of the location which is now Mexico and a little in in Central America.
What is Mesoamerica?
The thing that the Maya believed that their gods needed.
What is blood?
What is the period during which the Maya spread to the Yutacan Peninsula is called?
Classic Age
What was special about cacao beans?
They had great value, were restricted to only the most important Maya, and used as money.
The vast majority of the Maya people within the lower class.
What are farmers?
The leader of the Spanish conquistadors who invaded the Inca Empire.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
The location of the first Incas.
Where are the Andes Mountains?
For what purpose was the temple in the city of Palenque built?
To record the achievements of king Pacal
What sport did the Maya learn from the Olmec?
A ball game in which players tried to bounce a ball through a stone ring above their heads.
A book of historical records.
What is a codex?
The Inca ruler who led a great expansion of the empire and established an adamant religion.
Who was Pachacuti?
The capital city of the Inca Empire.
What is Cuzco?
These were necessary to keep the Aztec gods happy.
What were human sacrifices?
What did cities hope to gain from fighting with enemy cities?
Power and land
What is a tribute?
It is a payment to a more powerful ruler or country.
The people who were responsible for keeping track of calendars.
Who were the priests?
The lowest position in Mayan society.
What are slaves?
Out of desert plateaus, hot and wet rain forests, grassy plains, and the high mountains, which land feature is NOT found in North America?
Hot and Wet rain forests
These were treated with respect because they believed that these things never died.
What are mummified kings?
What is an accurate description of Mayan Warfare?
(Was it bloody? What methods did they use? What weapons did they use?)
Very bloody, involving hand-to-hand fighting with clubs and spears
For what two main purposes did the Maya use calendars?
To coordinate planting and harvesting and for planning religious events
Which of the following is not a discovery made by Maya astronomers?
1) They figured out that a year is about 365 days long.
2) They figured out and learned the cycles of the moon.
3) They learned how to predict eclipses.
4) They discovered how to predict solar flares.
4) They discovered how to predict solar flares.
What were the main sources of food of the early people in the Americas?
Bison, woolly mammoths, fruits, nuts, and wild grains
How does the climate change as one moves from the northernmost part of North America to the south?
It changes from cold and icy to warmer temperatures.
How did the Maya people usually supply the gods with blood?
What caused the collapse of the Maya civilization?
Historians aren't sure but think it was a mix of several factors.
How did the Maya create records of their culture?
They carved symbols into large stone tablets or wrote in bark-paper books.
What significant mathematical concept did the Maya help develop?
They were one of the first people with a symbol for zero.
How did the Aztecs conquer the other cities located around Lake Texcoco?
They formed a secret alliance with two other cities.
Who were the first Aztecs?
The first aztecs were farmers from what is now northern Mexico.
What is the significance of the Popol Vuh?
This book is a valuable source of information about the Maya.
Other than trading their goods, what key role did many merchants perform for the Aztec Emperors?
They were spies, alerting the emperors to possible troubles in other regions.