Maya
The writing style used by the Maya.
Hieroglypics
The name of the two social classes of Aztec society.
Nobels and commoners.
Name any country in present-day Middle America.
Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama.
A wall to hold back water.
Dike
The name for the conquers of the Aztec and Maya, from Spain.
Conquistador's
Were used to study the sky.
Observatories.
The name of the group of people that formed Aztec's central government.
The Triple Alliance.
The lake where Aztecs built their city.
Lake Texcoco
Bowl-shaped area.
Basin
How Hernan Cortez was able to communicate with the local tribes of Central America.
A translator
Olmec
The reason why Aztecs were able to expand their empire so easily.
Warfare culture, good warriors.
Style of farming method that used ash as a fertilizer for fields.
Slash-and-Burn Agriculture
To have as a source of origin.
Through colonization, we get this, which allows the transfer of plants, animals, and cultures between the Old World and the New.
Columbian Exchange
Mathematics and Astronomy.
The artificial islands that Aztecs would build to increase farming capabilities.
Chinampas
The name of the city of the Aztecs.
Tenochtitilan.
fixed, unchanging.
Rigid.
What cultural changes did the Spanish bring to Mexico and Central America.
Language, laws, religion, food, and architecture.
Traded Obsidian, Jade, and colorful feathers from this bird.
Quetzal
The two reasons why the Aztecs settled in the Valley of Mexico.
Rich volcanic soil and access to flowing water.
A reliable food source allowed civilizations to stock pile food and make populations grow.
Having parts that go together in complicated ways.
Complex.
The people at the top of the Spanish's social structure in the New World colonies.
Peninsulares