Geography
Mexico is located in which continent?
What is North America?
Why were they called "The Mother Civilization"
What is they were the first civilization and directly influenced all other civilizations.
Name one of the Mayan cities built during the Classic Period.
What is Tikal, Copan, Chicken Itza, and Palenque?
Name of the city the Aztec founded.
What is Tenochtitlan?
Another name given to stepped platforms built into the Mountainside, provided additional are for building and agriculture
What are artificial terraces?
Why was Monte Alban built on a mountaintop?
What is made the city easier ti defend?
Name the animal Olmec priests believed they transformed into?
What is powerful jaguars?
Name of the place where a Mayan king lived?
What is a palace?
What was their economy based on?
What is farming?
What was the main crop of the Maya and Olmec?
What is Maize?
Place where the Aztec built Tenochtitlan
What is a swamp?
These works of art are believed to represent Olmec rulers.
What are huge stone heads?
Name the four main Mayan social classes
What is king, priest and warriors, merchants and craftspeople, farmers and slaves?
Who was the most powerful person in Aztecs society?
What is the emperor?
What type of information did the codex have written in it?
What is information about predicting the future?
Location where the Zapotec society originated.
What is in the Oaxaca Valley?
What did archaeologist believed happened to the Olmec?
What is migrated east?
Name of the game Mayan athletes played
What is the sacred Mesoamerican ball game?
Who came in and overtook the Aztecs?
What is Hernan Cortez?
The Maya used two different calendars for what?
What is solar seasons and sacred rites?
Name given to artificial fields.
What are chinampas?
The Olmec buit courts to play a game that combined what two sports?
What are soccer and basketball?
What crop did the Maya considered sacred?
What is maize?
Who was the Aztecs emperor that considered himself equal to the gods?
What is Emperor Moctezuma II?
The Maya civilization might have disappreared because of what?
What is invasion, crop failures, or even civil war?