Geography
This is the present day country where the Aztec Empire was located.
What is Mexico?
The ancestor of modern corn
What is teosinte?
These are the two pyramids at Teotihuacán?
What are the pyramids of the sun and the moon?
The earliest known civilization in Mesoamerica
Who are the Olmec?
This is a scientist who studies past cultures by analyzing their remains.
What is an archaeologist?
This was a key Maya city.
What is Teotihuacán?
These crops are known as the three sisters.
What are squash, beans and corn?
What is one of the four city-states in the Classic Maya period?
What is Tikal, Copan, Palaque or Calakmul?
This characteristics of civilizations linked lowland and highland areas of Mesoamerica.
What is trade?
April 6th is this National Day.
What is National Caramel Popcorn Day?
The ancient city of Tenochtitlán is located underneath this modern city.
What is Mexico City?
Small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico.
What are Chinampas?
This was the lowest Maya social group.
What are slaves?
Maya writing is closest to this other ancient civilization's script in terms of its role in society
What is ancient Egypt?
This Spanish conquistador and his army defeated the Aztec.
Who is Cortés?
This is a key Aztec city.
What is Tenochtitlán?
The only two domesticated animals in ancient Mesoamerica.
What are the dog and the turkey?
This is how the Maya and the Aztec communicated with their gods
What is blood letting and human sacrifice?
A key lithic trade item in Mesoamerica.
What is obsidian?
This is the number of cats that Dr. Arnold owns.
What is five?
Teotihuacán functioned as a political center, ritual center and center for commerce and is located in this valley.
What is the Valley of Mexico?
The introduction of corn to North America can be traced using isotopes of this element.
What is carbon?
At the Classic Maya collapse, the population of Teotihuacán declines by approximately this much.
What is 80%?
The city of Teotihuacán shares this characteristic with urban centers of the Indus Valley.
What is a gridded street system?
The Temple of the Inscriptions holds the tomb of this leader.
Who is Pakal?