The Maya Empire
This group could communicate with the gods in Maya religion.
Answer: Who were kings and priests?
The Aztecs controlled this region where their capital city was located.
Answer: What is the Valley of Mexico?
This labor system required citizens to work for the government.
Answer: What is the mita system?
The Iroquois League lived in this region.
Answer: What is the Northeast (Eastern Woodlands)?
DOUBLE POINTS**
This is when people grow food so they can live in one place.
Answer: What is farming?
The Maya used observatories to develop this important system.
Answer: What are complex calendars?
The Aztecs were able to conquer neighboring groups because they had this.
Answer: What is a powerful army?
The Incas built a massive system of these to connect their empire.
Answer: What are roads and bridges?
This group built large earthen mounds for religious purposes.
Answer: Who were the Mississippians?
The land and weather affect how people build homes and grow these plants for food.
Answer: What are crops?
Mayan cities often had these structures in their centers.
Answer: What are pyramids and palaces?
Aztec rulers were chosen with help from this social group.
Answer: Who were members of the nobility?
This device helped the Incas keep records without writing.
Answer: What is a quipu?
DOUBLE POINTS***
People in the Northwest celebrated important events with this ceremony.
Answer: What is a potlatch?
In very cold places, people wear warm clothes and eat different kinds of this.
Answer: What is food?
Maya religion and government were connected because rulers were believed to have this power.
Answer: What is the ability to communicate with the gods?
These floating gardens showed the Aztecs’ strong engineering skills.
Answer: What are chinampas?
This mountain region was home to the Inca civilization.
Answer: What are the Andes Mountains?
This group had to adapt to a hot, dry climate.
Answer: Who were the Ancestral Pueblo?
Mountains and rivers made it harder for enemies to attack and helped protect this group of people and land.
Answer: What is a kingdom? (or empire — both acceptable)
____________ helped early civilizations begin in Mesoamerica.
Answer: What is agriculture (farming)?
DOUBLE POINTS**
The Aztec empire expanded across many different types of these.
Answer: What are landforms?
These animals helped people survive in the harsh Andes environment.
Answer: What are llamas and alpacas?
Archaeologists study these items to learn about early cultures.
Answer: What are farming tools and artifacts?
People living in tough environments used what they could find in nature, like water, wood, and animals. These are called this.
Answer: What are natural resources?