The Olmecs
The Mayans
The Aztecs
The Incas
Other
Mesoamericans
100
How many years before tutankhaman ruled egypt was the olmec civilization around?
What is 150 years
100
What were the 2 levels of Mayan religion?
What is daily physical life and the otherworld (spiritual life)
100
What kind of religion are the Aztecs?
What is Polytheistic
100
What is the capital city of the Incas?
What is Cuzco
100
What is a volcanic glass that was used for sharp edged tools?
What is Obsidian
200
What are two major Olmec cities?
What is San Lorenzo and La Venta
200
What is the name of the Mayan ceremonial ball game?
What is Pok-A-Tok
200
What is an artificial island, used for farming built by piling mud from the bottom of a lake onto rafts that are secured by stakes?
What is chinampas
200
Where did most of the Inca people live?
What is the Andes Mountains, or the Andes highlands
200
What is the Toltec empire's capital?
What is Tula
300
At their peak, San Lorenzo and La Venta had populations of how many people?
What is 1,000 people
300
What is the Mayan economy based on?
What is agriculture and trade
300
The Aztecs believed that human sacrifices were needed to please the gods, and to prevent what?
What is droughts, floods, and other natural disasters
300
What did the Inca build on step terraces carved into hill-sides?
What is irrigation systems
300
What city lays on the trade routes east of the Gulf of Mexico?
What is Teotihuacan
400
What were the stone heads found in the olmec cities made out of?
What is Basalt
400
How many days is the Mayan spiritual calendar?
What is 260 days
400
What are the 4 Aztec social classes?
What is nobility, commoners, serfs, and slaves.
400
What is a protein rich grain that the Inca grew?
What is Quinoa
400
What people from the north invaided Teotihuacan?
What is the Toltec people
500
The Olmec believed that the Jaguar-God conrolled what?
What is their harvests
500
The Maya believed that the movements of the sun, moon, and planets were what?
What is journeys of gods across the sky
500
a network of canals, bridges, and causeways were built to connect the mainland with what city?
What is Tenochtitlan
500
Who was the ninth Inca ruler?
What is Pachacuti
500
In Teotihuacan, the most important buildings were built along what?
What is the north-south axis of the grid
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