Mayans
Where was the Maya civilization located?
Maya were found in the Yucatan Peninsula and Part of Guatemala
Where was the Aztec civilization located?
Valley of Mexico
Where is the Inca Empire located?
located in Cuzco the Andes Mountains
Where was the Olmec civilization locate?
located in the hot and swampy lowlands along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico
What natural resources did Ghana have?
What were they good at making?
salt and gold
weapons from iron
What kind of religion did the Maya follow?
The Maya were Polytheistic
How did the Aztecs know where to build Tenochtitlan?
They saw an eagle perched atop a cactus with a long snake in its beak.
Who unified the Inca and established the Inca Empire?
Pachacuti
What kind of things did the Olmecs carve?
They carved colossal stone heads
What made Ghana a rich country?
What did they rely on to help it become rich?
trade
camels
how did the Maya appease their gods?
human sacrifice
What led to the downfall of the Aztec?
Spanish Conquistador who came to the valley of Mexico
What did the Inca build to unify their people?
What is Quipu?
roads
A system of knotted strings used by the Inca to keep
What was the first major city in Meso-America?
Teotihuacán
Who was the greatest king of Mali?
Why?
He developed the gold and salt trade which made them rich and powerful
Name two accomplishments of the the Maya civilization:
The Maya developed an independent Hieroglyphic language.
The Maya developed a calendar that had two different parts, the solar calendar and the sacred calendar.
What was their polytheistic religion based on?
Why did they practice human sacrifice?
based on warfare
practiced human sacrifice as a way to postpone the end of the world.
What led to the decline of the Inca empire?
Spanish Conquistadors
and disease
Why did the kingdom of Mali decline?
Which group of people came to take over?
What was the new kingdom called?
Mansa Musa died
Berbers
The kingdom of Songhay
What are the theories for the decline of the Mayan civilization?
Drought,
city-states were invaded by groups from central Mexico, there was uncontrolled warfare,
and population of Mayan cities grew faster than their farming systems could sustain.
What are chinampas? And why were they so important for the Aztecs?
rafts made from reeds and covered with dirt
because they had very little land to farm and needed to build more space for living and agriculture
What challenge did the Incas have for agriculture?
What innovation did they create in order to meet their needs? Explain
the coast is a desert-like climate where it is difficult to grow food
terrace farming, were able to grow different crops due to the different temperatures of the levels of the mountain.
Who was the leader of the Songhay empire?
What did he set up to rule the lands he conquered?
What led the Songhay's downfall?
Sunni Ali
A complex government
Morocco invaded Songhay with guns and they did not have anything to defend themselves against this advanced weapon