Geography
This civilization lived in the rainforest of Central America and southern Mexico.
Who are the Maya?
The Maya were organized into these independent cities, not one empire.
What are city-states?
The Aztec capital city, built on an island, was called this.
What is Tenochtitlan?
The Inca did NOT have writing. Instead, they kept records using these knotted strings.
What is quipu?
I lived in Central America in the rainforest, invented zero, and was organized as city-states.
Who are the Maya?
The Aztec built their capital city on an island in this type of geographic feature.
What is a lake?
The Maya invented this mathematical concept that only 3 civilizations ever figured out.
What is zero?
The Aztec built these artificial islands in the lake for farming.
What are chinampas? (accept: floating gardens)
The Inca built a system of these that was over 25,000 miles long through the mountains.
What are roads?
I built Tenochtitlan on an island and created chinampas for farming.
Who are the Aztec?
The Inca lived in this mountain range, the longest in South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
Only this many Maya codices (books) survived because Spanish burned the rest.
What is 4 (or four)?
These bridges connected the island city to the mainland.
What are causeways?
These relay runners carried messages across the Inca Empire.
What are chasquis?
I lived in the Andes Mountains and built terraces to farm on steep slopes.
Who are the Inca?
The Maya built these water storage structures because they had no major rivers.
What are reservoirs?
The Maya were skilled at this science, tracking the sun, moon, and planets to create accurate calendars.
What is astronomy?
Conquered peoples had to pay this to the Aztec - taxes in the form of goods and labor.
What is tribute?
The Inca capital city was called this.
What is Cusco?
I am a Maya structure built to collect and store rainwater.
What is a reservoir?
The Inca built these flat platforms on mountainsides to solve the problem of steep terrain.
What are terraces?
Name TWO major Maya cities.
What are Tikal, Palenque, Copan, or Chichen Itza? (any two)
The Aztec Empire lasted about this many years, from the 1300s to 1521.
What is 200 years? (accept: about 200, around 200)
The Inca used this system where citizens owed required labor to the empire.
What is the mit'a system?
I am an Inca system of knotted strings used to keep records without writing.
What is quipu?