Characteristics of a Civilization
Places where many people live and work that is larger or more important than a town.
What are cities?
The Maya were the first to develop this numerical idea.
What is the concept of zero?
This city is the capital of the Aztec empire.
What is Tenochititlan?
The ruler or emperor of the Inca who was part god.
What is Sapa Inca?
A country where the Inca empire existed.
What is Peru?
What is Ecuador?
What is Chile?
The institutions that make laws and customs.
What is government?
The pictures and symbols used in their writing.
What are glyphs?
This word means to worship many gods.
What is polytheistic?
The royal estate built for the ninth Inca King, Pachacuti.
What is Machu Picchu?
The Aztec sun god.
Who was Huitzilopochtli?
Each person does a particular kind of work according to his/her skills
What is job specialization?
Farmers, weavers, potters.
What are some of the jobs Maya had?
What are chinampas?
The capital city of the Inca empire.
What is Cuzco?
The words, and ways of combining them, used and understood by a large group of people.
What is language?
The peninsula where the Maya Civilization was located.
What is Yucatan?
One type of structure engineered by the Aztecs.
What is a causeway?
What is an aqueduct?
The official spoken language of the Inca.
What is Quechua?
One way that Maya adapted their agricultural practices to fit their environment.
What is: terrace farming, raised fields, slash-and-burn farming, growing certain crops together, canals and irrigation.
Use of scientific knowledge and new methods to solve practical problems and to meet a group’s needs.
What is technology?
This technology helped supply water through Maya cities.
What is hydraulic technology?
The name the Aztec used for their ruler.
What is Huey Tlatoni?
This group of people conquered the Inca.
Who are the Spanish?