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100
Took total control over economic and social lives of the people
What is Incan government?
100
polytheistic, blood offerings, and human sacrifices
What are characteristics of the Maya religion?
100
run by the government and built irrigation canals
What describes the Incan economy?
100
counting system, temples, monuments, pyramids, stone pavements, and drainage systems
What are achievements of the Olmecs?
100
Civil War and Smallpox
What are things that weakened the Incan Empire shortly before the Spanish arrived?
200
Emperor at the top with absolute power
What is the emperor's status in the Aztec civilization?
200
Jaguars and eagles
What are two animals that Aztec warriors dressed up as?
200
salt, flint, feathers, and honey
What are things traded in the Maya civilization?
200
temple chamber
What was on the top of Mayan pyramids?
200
Giant ants jaws
How did Incan surgeons close wounds?
300
Fertile soil and several shallow lakes
What are two descriptions of the Valley of Mexico?
300
Sacrifices
What is an example of an offering in the Aztec civilization?
300
wheat
What crop was NOT grown by Mayan farmers?
300
Aztecs
Which civilization did not have a complete writing system that communicated all things?
300
Stone heads
What are huge round carved sculptures made by the Olmecs?
400
Mesoamerica
What is the specific region home to the Olmecs?
400
Take a bath, cut their hair, clean black soot off their face
What are three things Aztec priests could not do?
400
Made large steps on the hillsides
How did the Incas make flat land for farming?
400
no iron tools or the wheel
What achievement does the Aztec and Maya civilization have in common?
400
corn, dogs, chocolate, wild turkey, and fish
What are five foods Mayan people ate?
500
Cuzco
What is the location of the Golden Garden?
500
Make them into mummies, have servants serve them each day, and carry them in parades
What did the Incas do with their dead kings?
500
demanded tribute from those they conquered
Other than trading obsidian, name another way the Aztecs were economically supported.
500
Young Men
Who was allowed to play on the Mayan ball courts?
500
Diseases
What thing brought by the Spanish conquistadors killed thousands of Aztec an Inca people?
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