Geography of Mesoamerica
Another word for "Middle America"
What is Mesoamerica?
2 kinds of minerals that the Mayans used.
What are jade and obsidian?
They are groups of Mesoamerican peoples who speak various forms of their language.
Who are the Mayans?
This Aztec capital city was built in Lake Texoco.
What is Tenochtitlan?
Located in southern Guatemala, this is one of the world's most active volcanoes.
What is the Pacaya Volcano?
Peninsula that stretches into, and divides, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
This bird provided feathers for the Mayan's clothing.
What is the quetzal
The Mayans established villages in these two areas of Mesoamerica.
What are highlands and lowlands?
The piles of dirt built along rivers and canals
What are chinampas?
These are imaginary lines that are north and south of the equator.
What are the tropics?
Between the present-day United States and South America
What is Mesoamerica
A method of cutting down and burning trees for fertilizing the soil.
What is slash-and-burn agriculture?
List all the 4 Mayan social classes.
What are the ruling class, nobility, peasants, and slaves?
The Aztecs were most known for their skill as this.
What are mercenaries?
Only these types of plants can grow at 4000 ft elevations, or the very cold land.
What are grasses and mosses?
Mountains that blow up and shoot out ash clouds into the air
What are volcanoes?
A type of corn.
What is maize?
Most Mayan peasants worked as these.
What are farmers?
Name the three classes of the Aztecs.
What are the nobles, the intermediates, and the commoners?
Slash-and-burn agriculture did this to the soil.
What is fertilization?
This volcano is one of the most active in the world today.
What is the Pacaya Volcano?
This tree grows well in moist, hot tropical climates.
What is cacao?
The main god of the Mayans
Who is ItzamNa?
The Aztecs believed in a lot of gods, specifically about this many.
The Mayans' culture dates 1000 years before these people.
Who are the Aztecs?