North America
Maya
Aztec
Inca
Technological Complexes
100
They lived in long houses and formed a Grand Council with four other neighboring tribes to maintain peace
Any of the Confederated Nations of the Iroquois / Haudenosaunee
100
The Maya nobility manipulated the cranial structure of their babies' heads to resemble this crop.
Maize or Corn
100
The Aztecs built their empire on this lake
Lake Texcoco
100
quipu
100
Chinampas
Aztec water complex
200
At this site, near the modern city of East St. Louis, Illinois, archaeologists found a burial mound over 98 feet (30 m) high with a base larger than that of the Great Pyramid in Egypt. Between 850 AD and 1150 AD, this was the seat of government for much of the Mississippian culture.
Cahokia
200
The form of political organization for the Maya was not a single king but rather this.
City-states
200
The ¨Place-of-the-prickly-pear-cactus,¨ this city was built on an island in what is now the historic center of Mexico City.
Tenochtitlan
200
This was the Incan sun god
Inti
200
underground aqueducts, cisterns
Maya water complex
300
This Onondoga Chief created thirteen laws that created the Grand Council, otherwise known as the Iroquois Confederacy, after meeting a mysterious figure.
Hiawatha
300
These rituals were a way that Maya nobles communicated with their gods and royal ancestors.
bloodletting rituals
300
This is the name the Aztecs used to refer to themselves by and is the ethnic group to which the Aztec elite belonged.
Mexica
300
This was the original capital of the Inca before the Spanish took over.
Cuzco
300
stone heads, stone masks, jade ceramics, rubber ball game
Olmec Craft and Textile Complex
400
The Mississippian Civilization is thought to have been influenced by at least two astronomical bodies when they built and aligned their mounds.
Sun and Moon
400
Mayan peoples contributed to the history of mathematics through this innovation.
The Concept of Zero (also acceptable: base 20 system)
400
According to Mexica myth, this sun god appeared to the priests in a vision. He told them to take a pilgrimage to the south and find a new land to inhabit. On the island, they found an eagle sitting on a cactus. They took this as a sign from this god that this is where they were meant to settle.
Huitzilopochtli
400
Though they did not have a written language they did have a spoken language.
Quechua
400
The 260-day count was combined with a 365-day vague solar year to form a synchronized cycle lasting for 52 years.
Mayan Mathematics/Cosmology
500
A mound in Cahokia featured dozens of young women facing the moon, a human sacrifice that was thought to be connected to this idea.
Fertility
500
This Mayan creation myth taught that the gods had created humans out of maize and water, the ingredients that became human flesh and blood.
Popol Vuh
500
The first contact between the indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica and Europeans took place during his reign, and he was killed during the initial stages of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, when conquistador Hernán Cortés and his men fought to take over the Aztec capital.
Motecuzoma I
500
The Inca used their roads not for trade but for...
Communication
500
This government was organized under either a strong king or rival aristocratic families
Teotihuacan