Geography
These crops are often called the Three Sisters.
Maize, Squash, and Beans
Olmecs are famous for these extraordinary works of art.
Colossal stone heads
An artificial field (floating garden).
Chinampa
This crop was considered sacred by the Mayas.
Maize
This ancient Aztec city is nowadays known as Mexico City.
Tenochtitlán
It was used to make chocolate and, sometimes, even used as money.
Cacao Beans
It is considered a Mother Culture in Mesoamerica.
The Olmec
A stepped platform built into a mountainside.
Terrace
On what Mexican area were many of the major Maya cities located?
Yucatán Peninsula
This member of society was the most powerful person for the Aztec.
The Emperor
Mesoamerica's landscape is divided into two main geographic areas...
Highlands and Lowlands
Around 500 BC this was the Zapotec center of power, built high atop a mountain.
Monte Albán
A civilization that greatly influences other civilizations.
Mother Culture
This practice began with the Olmec (and then by the Maya) and was performed to honor their gods.
The ball game
This Spanish conquistador defetead the Aztec.
Hernán Cortés
In the dense lowland jungles, farmers cleared fields through a technique called...
Slash-And-Burn Agriculture
This area of Mexico was controlled by the Zapotec for around 1000 years.
The Oaxaca Valley
Term used to describe a Spanish conqueror in the Americas.
Conquistador
The maya were superb mathematician and, like the people of ancient India, developed the concept of _______.
Zero
They built their ancient city on the western part of this lake.
Texcoco
First the Olmec and later the ____________ began to arise in Mesoamerica more than 3000 years ago.
Zapotec
This civilization was pionner in the building of terraces.
The Zapotec
A symbolic picture made to represent a word, syllable, or sound.
Glyph
This famous codex (folded book) recounts the Maya creation story.
The Popol Vuh
Aztec feathered serpent god.
Quetzalcóatl