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Coming to the Americas
The Mayans
The Aztecs
The Incas
Jury Trials
100
How the First Americans were able to walk from Asia to North America
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
100
Ancient writing system that allowed the Mayans to leave written records
What are hieroglyphics?
100
Their capital, Tenochtitlan, has been replaced with this modern capital city
What is Mexico City?
100
Remarkable feats of engineering, these connected the Incan Empire
What were the Incan roads?
100
12 ordinary citizens who determine guilt or innocence in a criminal trial of decide who's right in a civil case
What is a jury?
200
Large blocks of ice that formed during the last Ice Age
What are glaciers?
200
Science developed by the Mayans that allowed them to create incredibly accurate calendars
What is astronomy?
200
After settling in Tenochtitlan, they developed these floating gardens that are still in use in the present day
What are chinampas?
200
Capital city of the Inca empire
What is Cuzco?
200
Person who brings a complaint in a civil case
What is a plaintiff?
300
Another way of saying "extra," as in, when the First Americans started farming, they had extra food
What is surplus?
300
Oldest civilization in the Americas that influenced that Mayans
What is the Olmec Civilization?
300
Location of Tenochtitlan
What is the middle of Lake Texcoco?
300
Title of the Incan emperor, meaning the Only Inca
What is Sapa Inca?
300
Person who defends against a civil complaint or a criminal charge
What is a defendant?
400
Having surplus food because of farming allowed Native peoples to develop this
What is civilizations?
400
Home countries of modern-day Mayans
What are southern Mexico and Guatemala?
400
The 2 highest groups in Aztec society after the emperor, equal in status to each other
Who were the priests and nobles?
400
Knotted cord carried by Incan runners that kept track of quantities of various things
What is a quipu?
400
Objection based on the question the lawyer is asking not being important to the issues of the case
What is relevance?
500
How ancient peoples made a living before they invented farming
What is hunting and gathering?
500
Temples where Mayan priests conducted ceremonies
What were the pyramids?
500
Raised roads that linked Tenochtitlan to the mainland
What were causeways?
500
Wide steps of land built by the Inca for farming in the mountains
What are terraces?
500
Objection based on the lawyer asking a witness to guess
What is speculation?