Maya
Aztec
Inca
Geography
General
100

Who was at the top of the social pyramid in each Maya city-state?

What is the ruler?

100

What type of farming did the Aztec use?

What are Chinampas?

100

What is the name of the Inca sun god?

What is Inti?

100

On what physical feature can you find the Maya?

What is the Yucatan Peninsula?

100

What type of religion are the Maya, Aztec, and Inca?

What is polytheistic?

200

What was the main food of the Maya?

What is maize?

200

What was the main food of the Aztecs?

What is maize?

200

What is the main food of the Inca?

What is potatoes?

200

In what current day country can you find the Aztec?

What is Mexico?

200

What is an ayllu?

What is families that belonged to larger groups or clans?

300

What type of farming did the Maya do?

What is Slash and Burn?
300

How did the Aztecs know where to build their city?

What is they saw an eagle with a snake in its mouth sitting on a cactus tree - they believed this was a sign from the gods

300

How was the land owned and managed in the Inca Empire? 

What is the emperor owned all the land and loaned it to ayllus to farm and store in warehouses.

300

What current day countries include the Inca Empire?

What are Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina?

300

Who were Capa Incas?

What is the highest level of nobles and were relatives of the emperor?

400

What is the name of the Mayan ball game?

What is Pok-A-Tok?

400

Explain the Aztec class structure

What is rulers at the top, followed by government officials, priests and high ranking warriors. Then, Commoners, peasants, and slaves at the bottom.


400

What is an quipus?

What is a set of strings used to solve the problem of written language

400

What physical obstacles did the Incas face? How did they overcome these obstacles?

What are tropical rainforests, high mountains, and ranging rivers. They built roads to overcome these obstacles.

400

What was the role of women?

What is stay-home wives?
500

What happened to the winners of the Maya ball game?

What is they were sacrificed?

500

What were the Aztec were destroyed by?

What is smallpox?

500

How did Incas transmit messages from one part of their to another?

What is by using chasquis, which is a rotating relay system of runners.

500

What is the name of the Aztec capital city?

What is Tenochtitlan?

500

What are 3 reasons that led to the Maya decline?

What is disease, famine, and warfare.