MESOAMERICA & THE OLMECS
This area includes modern-day Mexico and Central America.
What is Mesoamerica?
Where did the Maya live?
What is Southern Mexico, Guatemala, or Belize, or Yucatan Peninsula?
The Aztec capital city was built on this.
What is an island?
The Olmec were famous for building these massive stone structures.
What are colossal heads?
This is corn.
What is maize?
The Olmecs lived near this body of water.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
Name one famous Maya city.
What is Chichen Itza, Palenque, Tikal, or Copan?
These roadways connected the Aztec island to the mainland.
What are causeways?
The Aztecs grew these foods in their floating gardens.
What are onions, peppers, tomatoes, and avocados?
This is sharp volcanic glass used to make tools and weapons.
What is obsidian?
This was the most important Olmec city.
What is San Lorenzo?
This is Mayan picture writing.
What are hieroglyphs?
The Aztecs created these floating gardens to grow food.
What are chinampas?
This is the name of the book the Maya would create with their writing system.
What is a Codex?
This civilization had the most social classes (6 altogether).
What is the Aztec?
The Olmecs are called this because they started traditions other civilizations copied.
What is the "Mother Culture"?
The Maya had about this many symbols in their writing system.
What is 800?
The Aztecs made this to carry fresh water to their city.
What are aqueducts?
The Mayan calendar had a year with this many days.
What is 365 days?
The belief in more than one god.
What is polytheistic?
Name three traditions the Olmecs started that other civilizations copied.
What are using a calendar, building religious centers, and playing ball games?
The Maya studied these to create their complex calendar.
What are stars and planets?
The Aztec society had this many social classes.
What is six?
Name two reasons the Spanish were able to conquer the Aztecs.
What are better weapons, blocking food/water, and disease?
These are floating gardens used to grow crops on water.
What are chinampas?