Aztec
The term for what the Aztec would have called themselves, reflected in the name of the modern day nation.
What are the Mexica?
The thing eaten by the dead in the underworld, prompting drink offerings to be poured out for the dead.
What is dust?
The concept of harmony and balance in Egyptian religion
What is Ma'at?
The name of the Sun God
Who is Inti?
The modern day country that houses most of the Indus River Valley
What is Pakistan?
The peninsula in Mexico where the Maya primarily lived
What is the Yucatan?
The modern day festival where the queen of the underworld is worshipped and offerings are made to the dead.
What is Dia de los Muertos?
The stepped pyramid complex that housed the Sumerian Priests
What is a Ziggurat?
The medical term for the process of preparing and preserving an Egyptian king for burial
What is Mummification?
This type of structure like the one built every year at Queswachaka
What are Rope Bridges?
The animal seen most prominently on the seals from the Indus River Valley
What is a unicorn?
What is the Tzolkin?
The most famous emperor of the Aztec, present when Cortés arrived
Who is Montezuma?
The empire that eventually settled in Sumer named after it's capital city.
What is Babylon?
These animals that were revered and worshipped by the Egyptians
What are Cats?
This ceremonial site built up in the andes and abandoned within 100 years
What is Macchu Picchu?
The natural air conditioning structures attached to houses in the Indus River Valley
What are Wind Catchers?
The mathematical invention by the Maya that even the greeks and romans did not develop
What is 0?
The miraculous sign that the Aztec saw; inspiring them to build a city on the spot.
What is an Eagle on a cactus eating a serpent
The goddess of wind who proposed marriage to a Sumerian king
Who is Ishtar?
The shape of the amulet placed on a dead egyptian to keep their heart from bearing witness against them in the afterlife
What is a Scarab?
The terms for the more than 2,000 miles of roads across the Incan Empire
What is the Inca Road?
The main vehicle for trade goods along with flat bottomed boats, pulled by a certain beast of burden
What is a Bullock Cart?
According to tradition, this is what the Maya believed humans were made out of originally
What is Maize?
Floating garden beds used by the Aztec
What are Chinampas?
The region in which Sumer sits, literally meaning the place between rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
The goddess of Magic and the magic that gives Gods their power
What is Heka?
This festival that takes place every year to celebrate the return of the sun and used to include the sacrifice of 200 llamas
What is Inti Raymi?
One of the main cities that gives an alternate name to the Indus River Valley Civilization
What is Harappa?
The mathematic amount 1:1.618 that shows the relationship between the measurement from head to belly button and belly button to feet.
What is the Golden ratio?
The language spoken by the Aztec and other local groups.
What is Nahuatl?
The legendary king of Sumer who was part god and part human and built the great wall of Uruk.
Who is Gilgamesh?
This term for a king of Egypt meaning "great house"
What is a Pharaoh?
This circular shaped tool and add on that the Inca never developed
What are wheels?
What is the Great Bath?
What is Base 20?
The mythological homeland of the Aztec that led to their name.
What is Atzlan?
The two rivers that are found running through and around Sumer
What are the Euphrates and Tigris?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
This item that your heart would be weighed against in the afterlife
The capital of the Inca Empire and the "center of the universe"
What is Cuzco?
This technology that moved waste away from the house, under the street, and away from the cities.
What are Plumbing Systems?
The name of the Mayan Ball Game that often ended in sacrifice
What is Pok ta Pok?
The modern day capital that sits on the spot of the Aztec capital
What is Mexico City?
The law code established by a king in the region of Sumer
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This wonder of the ancient world that was built as a monumental tomb
What is the Pyramid of Giza?
The only beast of burden raised by the Inca
What is a Llama?
The city in the Indus River Valley that housed the great Bath
What is Mohenjo Daro?
The monumental religious architecture built by the Maya at sites like Chichén Itzá, Uxmal, and Palenque
What are Pyramids?
The modern day Aztec ball game
What is Ulama?
The mythical best friend of a legendary king of Sumer, raised by the animals
Who is Enkidu?
This supreme, creator deity in ancient Egyptian mythology, formed by merging the air god with the sun god
Who is Amun-ra?
The name for the language of the Inca
What is Quechua (Aymara)?
One thing that researchers have found no evidence of, prompting the idea of a peaceful society
What are weapons?
The religious text for the Maya religion
What is the Popol Vuh?
The Aztec capital build on a lake
What is Tenochtitlan?
What is the Bull of Heaven?
This text including directions, spells, charms, and instructions that helped someone make it through the underworld into the field of reeds.
What is the Book of the Dead?
DAILY DOUBLE!
The term for the running messengers that would travel with Quipus of information
This camel like beast of burden that we saw in the Indus River Valley
What is the Indian Humped Cattle?
The term for the underworld in Maya mythology
What is Xibalba?