Landforms
This largest ocean borders Mexico on its Western side.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Where was the location of the Olmec?
Where is along the Guld of Mexico?
This is a farming practice where the Maya would cut down trees and vegetation and set them on fire to clear fields and make the soil more fertile.
What is slash and burn?
Plenty of food was grown to feed the growing population of the Aztec. Some of these food items include squash, chili peppers, and this, a type of corn.
What is maize?
This countries efforts for independence in 1776 inspired many other countries, including Mexico, to pursue independence.
What is the United States?
This river to the north of Mexico forms a border between it and the United States.
The rise of agriculture, or farming, led to what change in early Mesoamerica?
What is a steady food supply that lead to settlement and population growth?
Which country conquered the Maya as well as the Aztec?
What is Spain?
The capitol of the Aztec civilization, Tenochtitlan, was built in the middle of this lake.
What is Lake Texcoco?
This was the term given to Spanish explorers who conquered territories, including Mexico.
What are Conquistadors?
By which landform did the Maya civilization build their society and is home to the ruins of Chichen Itza?
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
Giant stone heads were left behind by the Olmec which are theorized to be depictions of who?
Who were important rulers?
Who was the ruling chief or king?
These floating gardens surrounded the capitol city of Tenochtitlan.
What are chinampas?
What role did Malinche serve Cortes in his conquest of the Aztecs?
What was his interpreter?
This imaginary line passes through the middle of Mexico.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
We do not know what the Olmec called themselves. The name Olmec was derived from a word from what civilization?
Who were the Aztec?
What were the Maya's main accomplishments or inventions?
What is observatories, accurate calendars, advanced mathematics (number system)?
The Aztec civilization built it's capital Tenochtitlan on Lake Texcoco. This has now become which modern city in Mexico?
What is Mexico City?
What disease weakened the Aztecs and provided Cortez to regroup his forces?
What was smallpox?
What is one desert that can be wound in the country of Mexico?
What is the Sonoran Desert or the Chihuahuan Desert?
What is rubber?
This is the term for a civilization that worship many gods just like the Mayans and Aztec did.
What is polythiestic?
What was one of the reasons that lead to the downfall of the Aztec civilization?
What was Spanish bringing disease, surrounding populations tired of paying tributes, or Malinche providing details about the Aztec to Cortes.
This co-called "Father of the Nation" organized the beginning of the independence movement in Mexico.
Who was Miguel Hidalgo y Castillo?