Maya
Where the Maya civilization was located
What is in and around the Yucatan Peninsula?
This is where the Aztec built the capital of their civilization
What is Tenochtitlan?
Who built a superior road system
Inca
The Maya farming technique that involved setting trees on fire
slash and burn
This was the ritual Maya ball game
What is pok-a-tok?
These structures are what an archaeologist would most likely find among the ruins of a Maya city
What are Pyramids or Ball Courts?
He was the Spanish conquistador responsible for the demise of the Aztecs
Who was Hernan Cortez?
This mountain range runs through the middle of the Inca Empire
What are the Andes Mountains?
The Maya used fresh water found in these natural wells
cenotes
This was a recording device made of knotted strings that was used by the Inca Empire
What is quipu?
This is what the Maya believed the gods needed to keep the world alive.
What are sacrifices?
The Aztec expanded their city and farmed on the lake by building these floating gardens.
What are chinampas?
This caused the Incas to be vulnerable to being conquered before the Spanish arrived.
What is a Civil War?
What did the Aztecs build to transport water across the empire?
Aqueducts
The Mesoamerican civilizations used this to make the drink xocolatl
What is cacao?
Glyphs and codices showed the Maya had what kind of system
writing
This is a reason the Aztec waged war so often
To expand their empire
He conquered the Incas
Who is Francisco Pizzaro?
This is the practice of believing in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
What did the tribute system force people in the Aztec and Inca empires to do?
Pay a goods tax
The Maya were the only ancient civilization to have a fully written language system using these to represent words
What are glyphs?
He was the last emperor of the Aztecs
Who was Moctezuma II?
This was the capital of the Incas
What is Cuzco?
This is a farming technique where the land on sides of mountains are cut to create even surfaces
What are terraces?
What did the Maya, Aztec and Inca civilizations have in common?
They all believed in multiple gods.