Geography
This group of ancient Americans lived in the Andes Mountains.
Who are the Inca?
The Inca worshipped their most important god, Inti. The god Inti represents the ______.
What is the sun?
The Inca were ruled by this leader.
Who was the Sapa Inca?
These were the three classes in the Maya civilization.
What are the upper, middle, and lower classes?
This type of farming was perfected by the Inca and solved the problem of planting crops on a mountain.
What is terrace farming?
This group of ancient Americans came before the Inca and lived in an area of Mesoamerica.
What are the Maya?
This is what polytheistic means.
What is the belief in more than one god?
The original Inca was thought to be the son of this god.
Who was Inti?
This group in the upper class of the Maya civilization were responsible for keeping the gods happy.
What are priests?
The Inca created a vast and advanced ________ system that was the largest in South America.
What was a road system?
These were some geographical features of the Andes Mountains.
What are volcanoes, glaciers, desert, lakes, grassland, forests, and plateaus.
This is why the Mayan priests wore masks during religious ceremonies.
They wore masks to scare away the demons that existed in the underworld.
This is how the Maya leadership is different from the Inca leadership.
The Maya have several rulers--one for each city state while the Inca have one ruler--the Sapa Inca.
These three groups made up the lower class of the Maya civilization.
What are farmers, workers, and slaves?
The Inca created irrigation canals for this purpose.
To move water from the top of the mountain to the crops below where the air was drier.
The Maya lived on the Yucatan Peninsula in Central America. This peninsula separates what two bodies of water.
What are the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico (AKA Gulf of America)?
In their religion, the Maya believed there were three realms they could exist in. These are the three realms.
What are Heaven, Earth, and the Underworld?
This group of people governed the Maya city states.
Who were the nobles?
The Inca were organized into groups of 10-20 people called ______.
What are the Ayllu?
These were two of the three calendars the Maya created.
What is the solar calendar, the long count calendar, or the sacred calendar.
The Maya civilization began in 2600 BCE while the Inca were formed around 1200 CE. Create a timeline representing these two cultures in chronological order. Make sure to include 1 BCE and 1 CE and each intersection on the timeline.
What is:
____+________+______+______+_____
2600 BCE 1 BCE 1CE 1200 CE
This determined where in the 4 quarters of heaven an Inca would end up.
What is if they lived a good or bad life?
This decided on the punishment of rule breakers in the Maya civilization which is similar to the U.S. today.
What are the courts?
This is how the Inca ensured that all their people were fed (Explain how in detail).
They created a tax that divided the food 3 ways. They gave some to the government, some to the priests, and some to the Ayllus.
The Maya used this farm technique to remove the forests in order to clear land for farming.
What is "slash-and-burn farming?"