Maya
Where did the Maya live?
Yucatan peninsula.
Where did the Aztecs live?
Central Mexican Plateau.
Where did the Inca live?
In the Andes Mountains.
What are the 3 sisters?
Corn, beans and squash
Only the Native Americans on the Plains hunted these animals.
What are buffalo?
What did the Mayan develop based on astronomy that was very accurate?
A calendar system.
What do you know about the religion of the Aztecs?
They were polytheistic. They had priests and human sacrifice was important.
What were the Inca the first to grow?
Potatoes
What very old mountain range is located in eastern North America?
The Appalachian Mountains
What was the primary food source of the West Coast Native Americans?
Fish
Why did the Maya play a deadly ball game?
It was part of their religious beliefs.
How did the Aztecs adapt land for farming?
They created islands for crops called Chinampas.
How did the Inca adapt land for farming?
They created irrigation systems and used terraced farming.
How did they adapt land for farming?
They used slash and burn techniques.
What type of homes did many native americans in the Plains live in and why?
Tipis that could be moved easily because they were nomadic. They followed the buffalo.
What did the Maya develop to communicate that the Aztec and Inca did not?
Written language using hieroglyphics.
Their capital city, Tenochtitlan, was a center for what?
Trade
How did the Inca keep records?
By using rope called Quito. It was tied with knots and a variety of colors.
What was the Trail of Tears?
When the US government forced the Cherokee off of the their land. They were marched to a reservation in Oklahoma. Over 4,000 Cherokee people died along the way.
What mountain range separates the Plains from the west coast area? They are difficult to pass through.
The Rocky Mountains.
How was the Mayan government set up?
It was a monarchy with a strict social structure. It had independent city states.
Who was Montezuma?
The last emperor before the Spanish arrived.
What did the Inca have that the Spanish wanted? Hint- they used it to make art/sculpture.
Gold
How was the Iroquois government unique?
It united multiple tribes into a government similar to a democracy.
What characteristics are different in Native Americans and which are similar?
Different- spoke different languages, lived in different areas, different housing, some farmed some did not
Similar - lived in tribes, all used animals as resources