Agriculture
What was the Inca's favorite animal?
Llamas
What continent did the Incan Empire exist on?
South America
Why did the Aztec sacrifice so many people?
So the sun would come up.
Show me the number 8 using Mayan Math.
8
What did the Inca build bridges out of?
grass
The Maya believed that people were made out of this delicious crop.
Andes Mountains
What was a macahuitl?
An Aztec weapon good for hurting people. It was a club with small obsidian blades.
The Maya were really good at astronomy. What is astronomy?
Sapa Inca
The Inca built these steps into the sides of their mountains to farm on.
Terraces
The Aztec and Maya lived here. It translates to Middle America.
Mesoamerica
The Aztec dug many canals in their city. What is a canal?
a man-made river
The Maya had a system of writing made up of hieroglyphs. What are hieroglyphs?
Pictures that represent sounds or words.
What were people supposed to do when the Incan emperor went by?
Look away and don't look at him
The Aztec built these islands to farm on.
Chinampas
This empire began in the middle of Mexico.
The Aztec
Why were the Aztec bad neighbors?
The Maya created a calendar that was very similar to ours. How many days are in a year?
365
The Incans used string to keep records of how much stuff they had. The knots on the string represented numbers. What are these number strings called?
Quipu
Name the Three Sisters
Corn, Beans, Squash
Maya, Aztec, or Inca? These people lived in southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.
Maya
Why does the flag of Mexico have an eagle on a cactus, holding a snake in its beak?
It was where the Aztec were told to build their city.
The most famous Mayan ruin is Chichen Itza. What was Chichen Itza?
- a temple
- stone pyramid
- has a snake god that 'slithers' down its stairs
The chasquis were Incan mailmen. What two things did they have to be good at?
- Good at remembering stuff.
- Running