Maya
What did Maya farmers grow besides corn? (Name one of their major crops.)
What are squash and beans?
What type of food did the Aztecs grow the most?
What is corn (maize)?
What kind of crop did the Inca grow that we still eat today as fries or mashed?
What are potatoes?
What was the main food the Mississippians grew?
What is corn or Maize?
What explorer sailed in 1492 and is often said to have "discovered" the Americas?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
True or False: The Maya lived in what is today southeastern Mexico, Beliz, Guatemala, and parts of Honduras and El Salvador.
What is True?
What was the main job of most Aztec people?
What is farming?
What did most Inca people do for work?
What is farming?
Besides farming and hunting, what was another way Mississippians got food?
What is fishing?
What country sent conquistadores to conquer land in the Western Hemisphere?
What is Spain?
What did the Maya use to write things down?
What are hieroglyphs?
What were the floating gardens used for farming called?
What are chinampas?
In what continent did the Inca Empire exist?
What is South America?
What large dirt structures did the Mississippians build?
What are mounds?
What Spanish explorer conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico?
Who is Hernan Cortes?
What did the Maya do to please their gods?
What are ceremonies or sacrifices?
What lake did Tenochtitlán sit in?
What is Lake Texcoco?
What mountains did the Inca build their empire in?
What are the Andes Mountains?
What was the purpose of the biggest mounds?
What is to house their leader or hold religious ceremonies?
What French explorer searched for the Northwest Passage and explored the St. Lawrence River?
Who was Jacques Cartier?
Who ruled Maya cities like kings?
What are kings or nobles?
What modern city is built where Tenochtitlán used to be?
What is Mexico City?
What did the Inca build to connect their huge empire?
What are roads?
How did the Mississippians move goods and connect with other groups?
What is trade?
What were explorers hoping to find by sailing west from Europe?
What is a shortcut to Asia?
This was a popular farming technique used to clear wooded land for framing.
What is slash and burn?
What was the title of a ruler in the Aztec empire?
What is an emperor?
What was the title of the Inca ruler, like an emperor?
What was the Sapa Inca?
What did the Mississippians believe about the sun?
What is that it is sacred or a god?
What invention made it easier for explorers to find their direction at sea?
What is a compass?
These were the three realms that the Maya believed existed in their world.
What is Heaven, Earth, and the Underworld?
What were the three main classes in Aztec society?
What are nobles, commoners, and slaves?
What group of people helped the emperor rule and collect taxes?
What were the nobles?
What kind of leader ruled Mississippian towns?
What is a chief?
What is the name of the trade route that brought goods, people, and ideas between Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
What other Ancient American cultures used cocoa beans for currency?
What is the Aztec?
What group of people was at the bottom of the Aztec social pyramid?
What were the slaves?
This type of farming was perfected by the Inca and helped expand their farmland in the mountains.
What is terrace farming?
This is how the Mississippians created canoes.
What is cut down trees, mold wet clay around the sides, then burn and scoop out the charred remains?
These are three things the Europeans brought to the Ancient Americans?
What are wheat, rice, sugarcane, coffee, bananas, grapes, horses, cows, pigs, sheep, goats, metal tools (like iron knives and axes), guns and cannons, armor and swords, the wheel (for carts), written languages (like Spanish and English), Christianity (religion), European farming methods, and disease.