Inca
Mexica
Olmecs
Maya
Vocabulary
100

How were taxes "paid" in the Inca culture?

What is community service?

100

The floating city of the Mexica?

What is Tenochtitlan?

100

The gigantic sculptures by the Olmecs

What are the colossal heads?

100

What is the tasty treat that the Mayans created?

What is Chocolate?

100

Corn

What is Maize?

200

What system of math did the Mexica use?

What is Bolo? What is Base-10?

200

What was the name of the job for the people that cleaned the streets of Tenochtitlan?

What are street sweepers?

200

What material did they use to make "waterproof" shoes?

What is Rubber?

200

What ball game did the Mayans play that is associated with religious rituals and may include human sacrifice?

What is Pok-A-Tok

200

System of knotted strings used by the Incans to keep records and calculations

What is Qipu?

300

What weapon did the Mexica use that was effective on cavalry?

What is Bolo?

300

What were the Mexica advanced in?

What is weaponry?

300

The writing of the Olmecs

What are Hieroglyphics?

300

What system of math did the Mayans use?

What is Base-20?

300

Pictogram representing a word or letter in a written language

What is a glyph?

400

What are the names of the two brothers that fought after Huayna Capac died?

Who are Huascar and Atahualpa?

400

How many cycles does the Mexica calendar have?

Two


There was a 365-day calendar called xiuhpoualli and a 260-day ritual cycle called tonalpohualli.

400

The Olmecs constructed the first Mesoamerican sculpture of this kind

What are pyramids?

400

Where did the Mayans settle?

What is the Yucatan?

400

Container for collecting and storing water

What is a Cistern?

500

What language did the Inca speak?

What is Quechua?

500

What is the highest form of art in the Mexica culture?

What is song/poetry?

500

The Olmecs created an item that before had only been found 1 millennium after the Olmec

What is the compass?

500

What sedimentary stone did the Mayans use to filter water?

What is limestone?

500

Leader of the Mexica who was captured & help prisoner by Cortez     

Who is Montezuma/Moctezyma?