Aztecs, Mayans, or Incas
They created the "solar year" which gave us the calendar year.
Maya
If your team looses at this game, you might be the sacrificial lambs
Pok-a-Tok
The most difficult challenge the Maya faced was how to
Grow enough food
The Mayans constructed uprights stone slabs called
Steles
The Aztecs of Tenochtitlan built chinampas to
Enlarge their land area
They used both glyphs and pictographs to communicate
Aztecs
The Aztecs received a sign from the gods in the form of what that signified they had found the place to settle & build a great city
An Eagle
The main food for Aztecs would be
Maize
The structures found by archaeologists in Maya cities like Tikal, built more than 1,000 years ago, are made of
Stone
The Incan society was based on strictly organized class structure made up of how many broad classes?
Three
They placed values for 1s, 10s, and 100s and so on
Maya
Oracle
If I wanted to know what was going on in the community, where would I go to get caught up on the gossip
Market
A solid earthen roadway built across water or low ground is called a
Causeway
Women in this civilization could ask for divorces
Aztecs
They built canals that brought water to the top of a hillside of terraces
Incas
Maya priests led rituals and offered sacrifices. What was another role of the priests?
To foretell the future
A technique in which vegetation is cut away and burned to clear land for growing crops
Slash-and-burn
Which civilization built an extensive system of roads and bridges to help manage their empire
Incans
A social structure in the shape of a pyramid, with layers representing social classes of different rank is called
Social Pyramid
They knotted sets of strings called quipus as memory aids for sending messages
Incas
Priests operated on patients by cutting into their skulls using this technique
Trephination
The god of agriculture in the Incan civilization is called
Inti
The Mayans built archways that had nine stone layers; representing the nine layers of the
Underworld
This group was the backbone of the Mayan society
Peasants