Maya
Vocabulary
Aztec
Inca
Potpourri
100

The first thing the Mayan Gods created.

What is Earth?

100

Traditions and beliefs people practice in their daily lives.

What is culture?

100

Where Aztec leaders built their capital city of Tenochtitlan.

What is modern day Mexico City?

100

This city was the capital of the Inca civilization.

What is Cuzco?

100

The class of people who have more privilege, wealth, or power in a society  

What is nobility?

200

The Gods shouted Earth!

How did the Mayan Gods create Earth?

200

Something that you pass down and do as a family for generations.


What are traditions?

200

This city had a population of 200,000? 

What is Tenochtitlan.

200

They ruled the Incan districts.

Who were members of the royal family?

200

Mayan athletes used these body parts when they played ball games.

What are hips and thighs?

300

The Earth was silent.

Why did the Mayan Gods fill the Earth with jaguars, pumas, snakes, deer and antelope?

300

Very old, or existing for a long time.

What is ancient?

300

These islands were built by the Aztec people to plant and grow food.

What are chinampas?

300

This was one way the Inca men paid taxes.

What is by working on public buildings?

300

A person who studies human history by observing things people left behind

What is an archeologist?

400

They melted in the Sun.

Why were the clay people the Mayan Gods made not good?

400

A group of people or communities with their own languages, culture, and way of living.


What is a civilization?

400

What was the sign from the Aztec Gods to build their capitol city?

What was an eagle holding a snake on a cactus.

400

How did the Inca people move around?

They mostly walked.

400

Each city had its own ruler

What is how were Mayan cities ruled?

500

After the clay people, the Mayan Gods made people out this.

What is wood?

500

A useful machine, tool or instrument that been created.

What is an invention?

500

The place of the prickly pear.

What is Tenochtitlan?

500

Why the Inca messengers traveled on foot?

There were no wheeled vehicles.

500

Today the empire would include parts of Peru, Colombia, Equador, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile.

What is the Inca civilization?