Inca
This is where the Inca lived.
What is the Andes Mountains?
Were destroyed by Spanish conquistador.
What are codices?
This is where the Maya lived.
What is MesoAmerica?
The belief in or worship of more than god
What is polytheistic?
Burned after being worn just once.
What are clothing used by the Sapa Inca?
A reason someone may be executed in the Incan civilization.
What is a sacrifice, crossing a road or cursing the Gods.
The most common crop in the Mayan civilization.
What is corn?
This is the name of the writing system the Mayans used.
What is hieroglyphics?
The study of the sun, stars and planets.
What is astronomy?
The practice of designing or constructing buildings
What is architecture?
The social structure of the Inca - groups of 10-20 people living together.
What are ayllus?
What are upper class (priest, noble), middle class (warriors, craftsmen, traders) and lower class (farmers, workers, slaves)
This is the number system used by the Maya.
What is base 20?
A flat, level area carved into a slope.
What is a terrace?
The name given to the place demons lived in the Mayan culture.
What is the underworld?
This is the name of the Spanish conquistador that imprisoned Atahualpa, the last Sapa Inca.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
The way the Mayans cleared the land for farming.
What is slash and burn?
These are two ideas of why the Mayan empire disappeared.
What is drought, starvation, disease, uprising by the lower class or war among the city-states
A group of countries or region controlled by one ruler.
What is empire?
The Inca had to pay two taxes. The first was on the crops. Who were they given to and in what order?
Government first.
Priests second.
Ayllu third.
Name three contributions/technology creations of the Incan culture.
What are terraces, irrigation canals, lamas or alpacas?
These are the three most common Incan crops.
What are corn, potatoes and quinoa?
What are the three types of calendars created by the Mayan?
solar calendar, sacred calendar and long count calendar
A human-made channel across land that moves water from its source to where it's needed for growing crops
What is an irrigation canal?
The names of the two most important Gods in the Incan culture.
What are Inti and Mama Quilla?