Maya Facts
This Mayan ball game used a solid rubber ball.
What is Pok-ta-Pok/Pitz?
This mountain range defines the geography of the Inca Empire.
What are the Andes?
The Aztecs followed this philosophy of their gods.
This Spanish conquistador led the expedition that destroyed the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
This important resource was used by all three civilizations in agriculture and daily life.
What is corn? (Maize)
This calendar has a full cycle of 52 years.
What is "The Calendar Round" (Tzolk'in and haab)?
The Inca civilization lasted for about this long.
Chinampas was the term for this structure in Aztec society.
What are floating gardens?
The Spanish melted down many of the Inca and Aztec artifacts made of this material, destroying cultural artifacts.
What is gold?
Unlike the Inca, both the Maya and Aztecs developed this method of written communication.
What are hieroglyphics?
This Mesoamerican civilization was one of the first to use chocolate and rubber.
Who are the Maya?
The Inca used this complex string knotting system to keep records and communicate numbers.
What is Khipu?
What is staging a military campaign?
The Spanish discovered, but disregarded, this now precious metal.
What is platinum?
These two civilizations built step pyramids for religious ceremonies.
Who are the Maya and Aztec?
This profession was highly valued in the Mayan civilization.
The area the Inca settled was referred to by its people as?
What is Tawantinsuyu?
This is the capital city of the Aztec Empire.
Where is Tenochtitlán?
The Spanish labeled the Mesoamericans with this derogatory term despite their advanced civilization.
What are savages?
While the Inca had no writing system, both they and the Maya had advanced knowledge in this scientific field.
What is astronomy?
Mayan writing consisted of what two types of hieroglyphs?
What are Logograms and Syllabograms/Phonograms?
The Incas used to eat this small creature.
The Templo Mayor was partially dedicated to Tlaloc, the god of what?
What is rain, water, and fertility?
The Spanish unknowingly brought this specific biological agent, which killed millions of Indigenous people.
What is smallpox?
This Mesoamerican culture is considered the oldest of the three.
What is the Maya?