A place in the ground where the earth has caved in and water collects.
What is a sinkholes
100
A people who built a civilization in the steamy rain forests of the Yucatan rain forests.
What is the Maya
100
What animals did hunters hunt in the Americas?
What is the woolly mammoth, antelope, caribou, and bison?
100
True or False. The Mayan taught their subjects not to please the gods.
False
200
A people who built a far-reaching trading empire and lived near present-day Vera Cruz, Mexico.
What is the Olmec.
200
A king of the Mayan society.
What is Jasaw Chan K'awiil I.
200
A region that includes lands stretching from the Valley of Mexico to Costa Rica in Central America.
What is Mesoamerica?
200
How did the first Americans get here?
What is the land bridge that lead into the Americas?
200
Where was the Mayan ruins first found?
What is the Yucatan rain forests?
300
Place of the Gods
What is Teotihuacan.
300
What was the main advantage of living in a tropical rainforests?
What is swamps and sinkholes. These two water sources allowed the Maya to have access to a year-round source of water.
300
The Mayan word for "flat region".
What is Peten?
300
True or False? The Moche people lived in the dry coastal desert where Peru is today
True
300
What is the Mayan word for "flat region"?
What is Peten?
400
What were the first grown crops in the Americas?
What is pumpkins, peppers, squash, gourds, and beans. Corn was also one of the first vegetables but took longer to develop.
400
How did the Maya treat enslaved people?
The Maya treated enslaved people horribly. They kept the people and put them to work.
400
A political agreement between people or states to work together.
What is an alliance?
400
True or False? The Moche people suffered a shortage of food.
False
400
How did astronomy and mathematics help Mayan society.
Astronomy and mathematics helped the Mayan society because they could predict eclipses, harvests, plantings, and religious festivals. They also created the 365-day calendar.
500
With the Moche's surplus of food, what did they decide to do to better their land?
The Moche build pyramids, and trade goods with people as far away as the Amazon River Valley. These goods include cloth, pottery, and jewels.
500
Where was the ancient Maya ruins found?
What is Yucatan rain forest.
500
A guess about what will happen in the future.
What is a prediction?
500
True or False? The Olmec built a far-reaching trading empire.
True
500
What was the written language that the Maya invented?