Mesoamerica
What is Mesoamerica?
This group of people is known their influence and building the foundation for civilizations in Mesoamerica.
What are the Olmec?
This basin in Mexico was known for having extremely fertile soil due to volcanic ash and down-flowing streams from the surrounding mountains.
This Italian explorer was sent by Spain in 1492 to find a quick path to Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This was the building foundation for the city of Tenochtitlan.
What is Lake Texcoco?
Around 7,000 years ago, people in Mesoamerica learned how to do this to allow populations to grow.
What is growing food?
What is farming?
What is agriculture?
This technique of farming was used by the Olmec and the Maya in order to adapt to the difficult rainforest farming.
What is slash-and-burn?
These provided extra farmland for the Aztecs.
What are chinampas?
These are Spanish explorers who have conquered land and people.
Who are conquistadors?
Both the Maya and the Aztecs had these two main groups of people in their social hierarchy.
What are commoners and nobles?
This grain that is grown today, in places like Indiana, was a vital source of food for people in Mesoamerica.
What is maize?
This was a widely used technique by the Maya to become closer to the gods that they worshipped.
What is human sacrifice?
Aztecs sacrificed the blood of their people to this god, so that he would not grow weak.
Who is Huitzilopochtli?
With the addition of finding gold and riches, the Spanish also wanted to influence people of the Americas through this.
What is religion?
What is Christianity?
Both the Maya and the Aztec used this form of religion.
What is polytheism?
Prior to farming, Mesoamerican people used this technique to source their food.
What is hunting and gathering?
This writing system was used by the Maya, and it is a major contribution to our knowledge of them today.
What are hieroglyphs?
This is seen as one of the greatest Aztec achievements due to its ability to source fresh drinking water.
What are aqueducts?
This conquistador is known for conquering the Aztec Empire and establishing the foundation for Mexico City.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
The Aztecs mainly taught their people by communicating through this.
What is story-telling?
The rise of farming led to people living permanently in these.
What are villages?
This Mayan accomplishment allowed their people to organize time.
By creating this, kings of the Aztec Empire agreed to support one another with resources and military.
What is the Triple Alliance?
Malinche offered to help the Spaniards find Tenochtitlan because of this reason.
What is the oppression and conquering from the Aztecs?
This bird is known for providing vibrant-colored feathers to the Maya and the Aztecs for headdresses and other pieces of clothing.
What is the quetzal?