Farming
The Aztec created these floating gardens.
What are chinampas?
The Maya built these stone monuments with glyphs carved into them
What are stelae?
What are the farmers?
The Aztec creation story had this many of these
What are Five Suns?
This distinctive color comes from indigo dye produced from a native plant in Mesoamerica
What is Maya Blue?
The Maya used seeds from this fruit tree to eat and ground into flour.
What is the breadnut tree?
This Aztec capital was laid out as a grid.
What is Tenochtitlan?
The Inca emperor was called this and was believed to have descended from Inti, the sun god.
What is Sapa Inca?
The Maya gods Tepew and Q'uk'umatz kept looking to make a race of people to do this.
What is honor or praise them?
This peninsula was home to the Maya civlization
What is the Yucatan?
The Andean mountains provided the right climate for freeze-drying this vegetable.
What are potatoes?
This civilization built causeways and suspension bridges to connect their empire.
What is the Inca?
This social class in the Maya culture could wear feathered headdresses and jade jewelry
What are the nobles?
This is the name of the Aztec feathered serpent
What is Quetzalcoatl?
The Incan god breathed life into these to make humans
What are stones?
This was the main food throughout Mesoamerica
What is corn, or maize?
The Maya believed that Chichen Itza held the home of gods who could control this.
What is rain?
The Inca's allyu was divided into how many different plots to feed the different social groups
What is three?
The Aztec god, Huitzilopochtli, told the Aztecs they would find this sign to know they had found their place to live
What is an eagle sitting on a cactus with a snake in its mouth?
Inca governors used these to help them keep track of crops and taxes
What are quipus??
The Inca people carved these into the Andes mountains in order to grow crops
What are terraces?
This capital of the Inca Civilization was filled with impressive stone buildings
What is Cuzco?
This is the name of the Aztec emperor
What is Moctezuma II?
Thr first Aztec world came to an end when this happened.
What was jaguars swallowed the giants?
The Inca government used a labor tax called this, in order to have people serve in their armies or build roads and buildings.
What is a mita?