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100
Where is Mesoamerica located in the world?
In the middle of North America and South America. (Meso=Middle)
100
What was the Mayan book called?
What is a Codex.
100
Why did the Aztec Empire fall?
Montezuma thought Hernan Cortes was an Aztec bearded god in the form of a human.
100
Corn, crop grown by Mayas.
What is maize.
100
Look at the chart called "People and Empires in the Americas". What kind of government did the Inca have?
Government by a theocracy sun-god king.
200
Where did the Aztec empire rise? What part of the world?
What is mesoamerica.
200
Name one thing the Maya are known for?
Math, architecture, astronomy, calendar system.
200
Why was the Inca road system important?
It connected all parts of the empire (including conquered peoples).
200
A Mayan book that provided predictions for the future as well as recorded history.
What is the codex.
200
Look at the chart called "Selected Civilizations". What Civilization existed from 200 BC to 600 AD?
The Nazca.
300
Which geographic feature influenced the Inca most?
Mountains (think: terrace farming).
300
The Mayas believed in many gods. What is this called?
Polytheism. (poly=many)
300
What did the Aztec do to please their gods?
What is human sacrifice.
300
What were raised roads across water and wetlands called?
A causeway.
300
Look at the chart called "People and Empires in the Americas". What religious beliefs did people of early North America have?
Religious beliefs in the Great Spirit.
400
Where were the Nazca Lines? What are they?
Southeastern Peru. They were lines that formed shapes in the terrain. (p. 248)
400
What did the Maya have two of - one for farming and the solar seaons, and one for religious rituals?
Calendars. The Mayan solar calendar was very close to the one we use today, with 365 days and 18 months with 20 days each, and 5 extra at the end.
400
Who were the Toltec's?
Peoples of central Mexico that lived between the 10th and 12th centuries, after the Olmec and the Maya.
400
How did the first humans get to North America?
What is Beringia (land bridge) - cross from Asia to what is now Alaska
400
Look at the chart called "People and Empires in the Americas". What Mesoamerican civilization practiced human sacrifice for religious offerings?
The Aztec.
500
What is a piece of landed surrounded by water on all 3 sides?
A Peninsula (Yucatan Peninsula)
500
Where do the ancestors of the Mayan civilization live today?
Guatemala.
500
The Inca used this kind of farming due to the steep mountainous terrain.
What is terrace farming.
500
What was the potlatch ceremony?
A gift giving feast celebrated by the Indigenous people of the Oregon and Alaskan territories.
500
Look at the map called "Olmec Civilization". Name one Olmec influenced site.
ex: Xoc, Altamira, Chalcupa, Tlatilco, Juxtlahuaca ...