Geography and Early Cultures
These two continents make up the Americas.
What are North and South America?
This was the first crop domesticated in Mesoamerica.
What is maize.
The Maya people were this, which also means to worship many gods.
What is polytheistic?
These are the words that make up the acronym HAM.
What are hieroglyphs, astronomy, and mathematics?
This is a dry period in the climate, which may have contributed to the Maya deserting their cities.
What is a drought?
Region that includes the southern part of what is now Mexico and parts of the northern countries of Central America.
What is Mesoamerica?
Farmers shaped hillsides into these so they could grow crops on them.
What are terraces?
The Maya believed their gods needed this to prevent disasters or the end of the world.
What is blood?
The Maya are often credited as one of the first civilizations to use this mathematical concept.
What is a symbol for zero.
Maya's civilization began to collapse in this century.
What are the 900s AD?
A sharp, volcanic rock used to trade and make weapons.
What is the obsidian.
This resource was often used as money.
What are cacao beans?
This group organized the transportation and distribution of goods.
Who were the merchants?
The Maya had this many different calendars they used.
What is two?
People invading from this country may have led to the Maya people leaving their cities.
What is Mexico?
These people formed the first urban civilization in Mesoamerica around 1200 BC.
Who are the Olmec?
During the Classic Age, the Maya civilization spread to this area.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
Who were members of the upper class in Maya society? (name three of four)
Who were kings, priests, professional warriors, and merchants?
The Maya built these structures to study the stars.
What are observatories?
Warfare was often very bloody and competition for this resource may have led to the decline of the Maya (what is it and what is it for?).
It is thought to be the landform the first people crossed to come to America.
What is the Bering Strait.
The Maya cities were often known as city-states because they each had these two qualities.
What are its own government and its own king.
This group was often the most educated of the Mayan people.
Who were the priests?
The Maya developed a writing system that was very similar to this.
What is Egyptian Hieroglyphics?
Life for the lower class was often very harsh and demands made by the king may have led them to do what?
What is to rebel and leave the city?