The Olmecs
This is the region where the Olmecs lived along the coast of which body of water.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
The three methods that the Maya used to create fields for their crops.
What is slash and burn, raised fields, and terraced fields?
How the Inca adapt their farming for living in the high mountains of the Andes.
What is terraced farming?
The finely crafted stone buildings and fountains suggest Machu Picchu could have been a…
What is palace?
Murray's favorite spot to sleep.
What is anywhere in the Hickmann household?
Mysterious large stone artifact that the Olmec are known for.
What are colossal/giant stone heads?
The two epidemics that could have led to the decline of the Maya were...
What are yellow fever and crop hopper?
The two most important gods to the Inca.
Who are Viracocha and Inti?
One piece of evidence that supports the idea that Machu Picchu was used as a religious site.
What is burials or Temple of the Sun?
Object that Murray stole from our friends' dog, Gadget.
What is her bed?
The name Olmec means this.
What is "people who live where rubber is made"?
The main crop for the Maya.
What is maize/corn?
How the Inca send messages quickly across their empire.
What is the Inca trail?
The reason some archeologists doubt that Machu Picchu was a traditional Inca city.
What is it is very small or its location?
Hated program that the vet has Murray on.
What is a diet?
The Olmec civilization is often called the “Mother Culture” of:
What is Mesoamerica?
People couldn’t move up to a higher class or marry into a different class in the ancient city-states because of a strict ______________ system.
What is caste?
The reason the Inca performed the capacocha ceremony.
What is to please the gods?
The presence of farming terraces and irrigation systems suggests Machu Picchu may have been used as a…
What is agricultural outpost?
Place we adopted Murray from.
What is CAT adoption team?
It’s a bog or wetland that preserved many of the items deposited there by the Olmecs thousands of years ago.
What is El Manati?
Researchers found _______________ in caves that showed evidence of droughts and rainfall.
What are stalagmites?
Meaning of Sapa Inca.
What is sole ruler?
Machu Picchu’s remote and defensible location has led some to think it was a…?
What is a military fortress?
Murray's age.
What is 8 years old?