The Maya
The environment of the Mayan lowlands is this.
What is a tropical rainforest?
The Aztecs famously built their capital city in the middle of this important resource.
What is Lake Texcoco?
This mountain range ran along the west coast of South America and was the home to the Inca Civilization.
What are the Andes Mountains?
What are mound builders?
The first people to settle the Americas came from what continent.
What is Asia?
This is a farming technique used by the Mayans where they cut trees and other plants and then burned them to fertilize the soil.
What is slash and burn?
Mayan kings would conquer neighboring states and then force them to pay this. It may have contributed to the downfall of their empire.
What is tribute?
The geography of the land forced the Incas to farm on strips of land that resembled stairs.
What are terraces?
The natives of the Great Plains cultural area had their lives and culture changed when the Europeans introduced this animal to them.
What is the horse?
This is an object that people make such as tools, pottery, and jewelry. Scientists have learned a lot about people by studying these.
What are artifacts?
In the Mayan religion, priests and kings performed rituals in temples that sat atop this structure.
What is a pyramid?
Mayans would sacrifice human blood to please their gods. This was part of their _______ rituals.
What is religion?
The Incan government would take responsibility for the well-being of its people in times of crisis like crop failure or natural disasters by distributing these items.
What is food and clothing?
Food was so plentiful in this Cultural Area that the people that lived there didn't even need to farm!
What is the Northwest Region?
As the population grew in size, the Aztecs built artificial islands around their capital city to produce surplus food. These artificial islands were called __________.
What are chinampas?
Mayans had many great achievements from writing to astronomy, to arts and architecture. They are famous for adding this number to their system of numerals making calculations much easier.
What is the number zero?
The Aztec empire was conquered by this group that hailed from Europe.
What are the Spanish conquistadors?
This famous engineering feat of the Incas stretched more than 15,000 miles across their empire, crossing deserts mountains, and jungles.
What is a road system?
Arctic people lived in several different types of homes, but this type of home was typically used during winter and was constructed from blocks of snow.
What is an igloo?
By joining forces and giving it an interesting name, 3 Aztec kings created a dominant force that ruled over large areas during their reign.
What is the Triple Alliance?
One possible reason for the decline of the Mayans may have a prolonged period of little to none of this resource.
What is rainfall?
The Aztec Empire was ruled by a king with total unlimited power. This type of ruling was called an ________ monarchy.
What is an absolute monarchy?
The Incas did not formally practice slavery. But, because there was no money, people paid their taxes through labor called the _____ ____________.
What is the mita system?
Ancestral Pueblos made homes of stone and dried mud. They often built them under these for protection from weather and enemies.
What are rock cliffs?
The building and use of observatories to study the stars allowed the Maya to develop these.
What are calendars?