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Geography
Mayan Civilization
Aztec Civilization
Religion of the Ancient Civilizations
European Explorers
100
The capital of Mexico.
What is Mexico City.
100
The head of the family.
Who is the father of the family?
100
The original name of the Aztec.
What is Mexica?
100
The god that was common and important in both civilizations. (Either the Mayan or Aztec name is fine)
Who was Quetzacoatl or Kukulkan?
100
Two of the main countries that came to the New World.
Who were France, Spain, Portugal, Britain, and Holland?
200
The area in which most of the Mayan civilization lived.
What is Yucatan Peninsula?
200
The most popular ball game in the civilization.
What is pok-a-tok?
200
The group that the Aztec adored.
Who were the Toltec?
200
Who did the Maya sacrifice from their society? Name one of the groups.
Who were slaves, orphans, or prisoners of war?
200
The Italian born, Spanish explorer that first sighted the New World in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
300
The last country in central america.
What is Panama?
300
The second most important social rank of the civilization.
Who were the priests and nobles?
300
The job that most Aztec men had in other communities in the central valley.
What was being a mercenary?
300
Huitzilopochtli was an Atzec god that was often time represented as this small bird.
What is a hummingbird?
300
The name for the islands in the Caribbean that were thought to be the East Indies by explorers.
What are the West Indies?
400
The mountain range that covers a majority of the western portion of South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
400
The god of rain and, to some, the most important god of the Maya.
Who was Chaac?
400
The floating gardens used to create more surface area.
What is a chinampa?
400
The highest number on the sacred round of the Maya.
What is 13?
400
The year that the Spanish explorers made it to Tenochtitlan.
What is 1519?
500
The two nations that are on one island.
What are Haiti and the Dominican Republic?
500
The number of days in the ritual calendar of the Maya.
What was 260 days?
500
An innovation that brought water to the city from the Chapultepec springs.
What were aqueducts?
500
The reason the Aztec sacrificed regularly to their gods.
What is they believed that human blood gave their gods strength in their powers?
500
The explorer that first met the Inca.
Who is Pizarro?