Maya Mythology
Maya Ball Game
Maya Cities
Aztec Gods
Aztec Society
100
This Maya god was associated with rain and storms.
Who is Chaac?
100
The Maya ball game was called this.
What is Pok-ta-Pok?
100
This city was a major Maya center in present-day Guatemala.
What is Tikal?
100
The Aztec god of war and the sun.
Who is Huitzilopochtli?
100
This city was the Aztec capital.
What is Tenochtitlan?
200
The Maya believed this celestial body was central to their calendar system.
What is the sun?
200
This was the primary goal of the Maya ball game.
What is hitting a rubber ball through a stone hoop?
200
This pyramid in Chichen Itza is known for its serpent shadow during the equinox.
What is El Castillo?
200
This feathered serpent deity represented knowledge and wind.
Who is Quetzalcoatl?
200
The Aztecs used floating gardens for farming, called this.
What are chinampas?
300
This creation story explains how humans were made from maize.
What is the Popol Vuh?
300
The ball court was shaped like this.
What is an Football Feild
300
Maya cities were built with this architectural feature to align with celestial events.
What are observatories?
300
The Aztec moon goddess was dismembered by her brother Huitzilopochtli.
Who is Coyolxauhqui?
300
This was the highest social class in Aztec society.
What are the nobles or pipiltin?
400
The Maya underworld was known by this name.
What is Xibalba?
400
The game held religious significance and was linked to this mythology.
What is the Popol Vuh?
400
Daily Double
400
Human sacrifices were offered to this rain god.
Who is Tlaloc?
400
This marketplace was central to Aztec trade.
What is Tlatelolco?
500
Twin brothers from this myth defeated the Lords of Xibalba in the underworld.
Who are the Hero Twins?
500
Evidence suggests that losers of the game might face this fate.
What is ritual sacrifice?
500
This term refers to Maya city-states ruled by kings.
What are polities?
500
This god represented duality and was both male and female.
Who is Ometeotl?
500
Aztec education was provided in these two institutions.
What are calmecac and telpochcalli?