Geography
The location of the Maya Civilization.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula or Mesoamerica?
The word for the type of religion practiced by all the civilizations we have studied.
What is polytheistic?
They were a collection of a loosely-connected city-states.
Who were the Maya?
They practiced slash-and-burn agriculture.
Who are the Mayas?
The Maya were the only civilization to have a form of writing. This is the name of their writing system.
What is hieroglyphs?
The mountain range that runs through the middle of the Inca Empire
What are the Andes Mountains?
Comprised of an Upperworld, This World and the Underworld
How did the Mississippians view the universe?
The only or mighty Inca.
Who was Sapa Inca?
These were created to maximize the use of land through floating gardens.
What are chinampas?
The water-filled ditch around a settlement meant to protect it.
What is a moat?
The only civilization that is located in what is now the United States.
What are the Mississippians?
They mummified their dead because of their belief in the afterlife
Montezuma II was the 9th and last ruler of this civilization.
Who are the Aztecs?
Either planting two crops at one time or rotating crops one after another during the planting season. Name one.
What is multiple cropping or intercropping?
What does B.C.E. stand for?
Before the Common Era
The location of the Aztec Empire?
Sometimes built on top of pyramids or mounds as a religious site
What is a temple?
Ayllus
The name of the bridges that were built in order to bring fresh water to the city.
What is an aqueduct?
What does B.C. stand for?
Before Christ
The only civilization we studied in South America.
What is the Inca Empire?
They thought demons would be released if they did not worship the gods properly.
A group of Mississippian villages led by a chief.
What is a chiefdom?
These were carved into the slopes of mountains for planting.
What are terraces or what is terrace farming?
A system in which people are ranked by status or authority.
What is hierarchical