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Who was the ultimate authority of the Maya empire?
Who is The King?
What were three crops commonly grown by Mesoamerican civilizations?
What are beans, squash, and maize?
The Maya, Aztec, and Inca Empires would perform this religious act to please their gods.
What is human sacrifice?
__________ is a historic region in Central America that was home to many advanced civiliazations.
What is Mesoamerica?
The Aztecs used this object to help them keep track of the sun.
Who was the ultimate authority in both the Aztec and Inca empires?
Who is the Emperor?
The Maya and Inca civilizations had to adopt this farming style due to their mountainous terrain.
What are terrace farms?
Many indigenous groups of the Americas were _______, or believers in more than one god.
What is Polytheistic?
The Maya civilization had a fully written language made of over 800 ________, which represent words, objects, and sounds.
What are Glyphs?
Most city-states were ruled by a _______ believed to have been chosen by the gods.
What is a King?
How did the Incas use bridges as a form of defense in case of enemy attack?
What is burning the bridges down to prevent enemy from crossing?
This farming technique used by the Maya includes clearing forests by cutting down trees and burning the remains.
What is Slash and Burn?
This religious figure had a heavy influence and power in the Maya and Aztec empires.
What is a Priest?
Terrace farms were used by the Maya and Inca empires, what is a terrace farm?
What are small, flat fields that were cut into hills and mountains to farm on?
What Mesoamerica group is believed to have performed the most amount of human sacrifices?
What is the Aztec empire?
The emperor of the Inca Empire, Sapa Inca, means what in English?
The Aztecs created these man-made floating islands that were used to grow crops as a solution to their commonly flooded and swampy land.
Which Mesoamerican group believed in the afterlife?
What is the Inca Empire?
What is a quipu?
What is an object made of string and knots that the Inca used to communicate?
The Maya and Aztec empires both used two calendars. One was 365 days and the other was 260 days. What was the 260-day calendar used for?
What are religious ceremonies and festivals?
What empire had the most advanced language? What was the book with accordion-style folds called that they wrote in?
In addition to using crops to feed their communities, the Inca used crops and labor as _________ to help keep their government running smoothly.
What are tax payments?
Who did the Aztec consider to be their most important god?
Who is Huitzilopochtli? God of Sun and War
The Aztecs built aqueducts. What are aqueducts?
One of the earliest Mesoamerican groups who created a culture that influenced later civilizations were the _______.
Who are the Zapotecs?