Geography
This tribe settled in the Valley of Mexico.
Who are the Aztecs?
Inti
This is known as a writing system that uses pictures or symbols.
What are glyphs?
This is a knotted and colored cord device used for counting by the Incas.
What is quipu?
This is known as Floating Gardens.
What are chinampas?
This culture spread throughout southern Mexico and mostly Central America.
Who are the Mayans?
This is the god of rain of the Mayans
Who is CHAC?
This is the name for a Mayan book.
What is a codex?
This is ridges cut into mountain sides to make more level land for farming.
What are terraces?
After the slash and burn method, the ashes were used for this.
What is fertilizer?
This peninsula was a part of the Mayan location.
Yucatan Peninsula
This priest in the Mayans had many duties including knowledge of math, astronomy and were considered prophets.
Who is an ahkin?
These are two calendars the Aztecs followed.
What is the Lunar Calendar and Solar Calendar?
This is where Mayans threw many live men into the well as sacrifices to the gods.
What is the Well of Sacrifice?
Incan children ran in fields to scare away these.
Birds and animals
This was the greatest city of the Aztecs.
Tenochtitlan
This is known as a sacred place or thing. It included mummies, temples, and holy places.
What are huacas?
This Incan system is still used today because of their successful aqueducts.
What is water system?
This is the Aztec parade of young men from each clan and special warrior groups.
What is grand procession?
This system was used by the Aztecs to trade objects rather than buying or selling them.
What is the Barter System?
This is the mountain range that runs along the western edge of South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This is the reason Aztecs used human sacrifice.
Aztecs believes the blood given in human sacrifice gave the gods strength and energy.
This major road was used by the Incas and was 2,520 miles long.
What is coastal highway?
This is the school Aztecs sent students to train to become priests.
This was the main use of an Aztec planting stick.
What is making holes in the ground for the seeds?