Mesoamerica
A new way of producing food that enabled people to stay in one place.
What is farming?
A lack of water that may have contributed to the fall of the Mayan Civilization.
What is a drought?
The country where most of the ancient Aztec empire was located.
What is Mexico?
The continent that the Inca empire was located in.
What is South America?
What were the Olmec's mayor cities
San Lorenzo, La Venta and Tres Zapotes
The part of the world the Ancient Mayan empire was located in.
What is Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras?
What is Central America?
A place where people would go to buy and sell things.
What is a market?
A symbol that was associated with the Incan King that is still used in many flags today.
What is Inti, the sun god?
Where did the Olmecs first appear?
Swampy lowlands in Mexico's Gulf Coast
The most recent of the Mesoamerican civilizations
What are the Inca?
The study of the stars, moon, and planets that the Ancient Maya used to create their calendar.
What is astronomy?
The sign that the ancient Aztecs searched for to find their new home.
What is the eagle and the serpent?
In what period did the Inca civilization exist?
Form 1200 to 1500 AD
What vegetables did the Olmecs plant?
Squash, tomatoes, peppers and corn
A staple crop for the Mesoamerican civilizations.
What is maize (corn)?
The first sport played in the Americas.
What is pok-a-tok (Mesoamerican ball game)?
The Last Aztec Emperor and the man who caused the fall of the Aztec Empire.
Who were Moctezuma and Cortez?
An ancient Incan city in Peru that is still mostly intact.
What is Machu Pichu?
What does the word Olmec mean?
People of the rubber land
A place where people can go to worship the gods.
What is a temple?
In small groups that moved around
What is sedentism?
When people build permanent homes and farms.
True they lived in modern day Peru
What cultures adopted the Olmecs ideas?
Mayan and Zapotec