Aztec Education
Aztecs built this to train children to occupy specific roles in society.
What is public school?
Name of the Mayan book
What is Codex?
Mayan farmers used this technique to produce fertile soil to cultivate and harvest crops
How did the Aztecs satisfy the appetite of the gods?
What is human sacrifice?
Children at public schools studied these three areas.
History, religion, and specific profession
How many days in each month of the Mayan calendar?
How many months in the Mayan calendar?
20 days in each month with 5 day unlucky period.
18 months in the calendar year.
Name of this system to predict solar/lunar eclipses and moon phases.
What is Caracol?
These native Americans were known for their strong military.
What is Aztecs?
True or False. Boys and Girls attended the same school.
What did females learn at school?
False.
Aztec females learned how to cook, clean, sew, make textiles, and care for children.
The Mayans invented the idea of this which made their calendar system accurate.
What is zero?
Mayans established their civilization in which modern day country and region.
What is Mexico and Central America?
What did the Aztecs to do to acquire more money for the State?
Tax conquered tribes
What did males from wealthy families learn at school?
Engineering and building, law, writing, medicine, and interpreting signs and omens.
This was considered a sign of beauty in Mayan culture
What is tying a board to the forehead of child?
Mayans were given this nickname for being an advanced society
What is "The Greeks of the New World?"
What is the capital city of the Aztec?
What is Tenochtitlan?
What was the purpose in educating males from "commoner" families?
Males from Commoner families learned farming. warfare and survival skills. They also learned history, dancing and singing, proper social skills, and rituals.
Mayans used this object to communicate with the gods
What is a mirror?
Mayans built this complex system to keep people and cities connected
What is roads?
How many schools were in the Aztec society?
Three -two for boys and one for girls.