Maya
Important Mesoamerican crop that helped populations grow.
What is maize?
Gift of an animal or humans for slaughter to honor the gods.
What is a blood sacrifice?
Tool used to keep records, collect data, and help messengers.
What is a quipu?
A person who moves often.
What is a nomad?
Rule by the people.
What is a democracy?
Writing that uses pictures as symbols.
What is heiroglyphics?
Tax paid by city-states to central government.
What is tribute?
Capital of the Incan empire.
What is Cuzco?
Large animal found on the Great Plains that served as the primary source of food, shelter and clothing for indigenous people.
What is a buffalo?
An area ruled by a chief?
What is a chiefdom?
Belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
Independent city with its own government?
What is a city-state?
Running messengers in Incan society.
What is a Chasquis?
Ceremonial structure that is usually round and partly underground. Important meeting place.
What is a Kiva?
In the land that is now the U.S., a group of Indigenous people sharing similar cultures.
What is a Nation/tribe.
What is the name of the area that Mayan civilization spread over which includes present day Mexico, Belize, most of Guatemala, and parts of Honduras and El Salvador?
What is Mesoamerica?
Half-human half god. Aztec emperors were considered this?
What is semi-divine?
Bridge held by cables anchored at each end used to connect an empire.
What is a suspension bridge?
Region with large animals like deer to hunt. Lots of trees, and forested.
What is the Northeastern woodlands?
An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language.
What is a Cultural Region?
What is the name of the culture from whom the Mayans inherited ideas?
Government system where authority comes from local leaders and tribute is sent to the main empire.
What is a decentralized government?
Government system where authority cones from the main ruler and people are closely linked together.
What is a centralized government?
What is the Southwest region?
Constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy.
What is the Great Law of Peace?