Power Words
Mesoamerica means...
What is Middle America?
The capital city of the Inca empire
What is Cuzco?
This food was a staple of the Mayan diet and also had it's own God
What is Maize?
a raised road or path, as across low or wet ground.
What is a causeway?
This civilization is considered a mother culture
What is Olmec?
a small tropical American evergreen tree cultivated for its seeds, the source of chocolate.
What is Cacao?
Who is Francisco Pizarro? What is he known for?
What is a Spanish conquistador known for conquering the Inca Empire?
The Mayan Empire was located in....
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
The capital city of the Aztec Empire
What is Tenochtitlan?
This civilization ended last
What is Inca?
the process of cutting down trees, setting fire to the remaining foliage, and using the ashes to provide nutrients to the soil for the use of planting food crops.
What is slash and burn agriculture?
What was the climate and geography like in the Andes region?
What is warm and dry with many rocky mountain regions?
This Mayan Ruin can still be found today
What is the Chichen Itza temple?
The name of the Aztec floating gardens.
What are Chinampas?
The climate in Mesoamerica
What is hot and humid?
a term for an earlier or ancient people's culture that has great and widespread influence on some later cultures and people.
What is Mother Culture?
What advancements in medicine did the Inca make?
What is trepanning, blood transfusions and used local plants for medicinal purposes?
book or pages held together used by early Mesoamerican civilizations to record historical and important events
What is a codex?
Name the four main reasons the Spanish were able to conquer the Aztecs?
What are weapons, disease, alliances, and geography?
The main rule of the Olmec Ball Game
What is only using your hips or thighs to hit the ball into the hoop?
a volcanic glass similar in composition to granite, natural resource that can be found in Mesoamerica
What is obsidian?
a device made of a main cord with smaller different colored cords attached and knotted used for calculating and recording formation
What is quipu?
A temple was built in this city to honor the King Pacal.
What is Palenque City?
How many social classes can be found in the Aztec Society? Name them.
What is six? What are Kings, Nobles, Priests, Warriors, Merchants/Artisans, and Slaves.
List 3 natural resources found in Mesoamerica
What are fertile soil, oceans, and mountains for protection?