Geography
The Maya lived primarily in this region that includes Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
A type of sacrifice that all empires took part in, the Aztec, being the most extreme and often.
What is Human Sacrifice?
These “floating gardens” helped the Aztecs farm in swampy areas.
What are Chinampas?
Who was the king?
This was one of the main products of trade amongst the Maya
What is Maize/corn?
The Aztecs built their city on this type of terrain where they built from the ground up and out using mud, rocks, and wood.
What is marsh/swamp?
The type of religion where they believe in multiple/many gods
What is polytheistic?
The representation for the Mayan number 0
What is a shell?
For the Inca, who held the top position in the Inca social and political hierarchy?
Who is the Sapa Inca (emperor)?
This is the type of economic system the Maya, Aztec, and Inca practiced.
What is trade?
The Aztec capital city was built on an island in this lake.
What is Lake Texcoco?
This is where empires would perform religious rituals such as sacrifices.
What are Pyramids/temples?
The reason historians believed the Maya number system went by 20's.
What is because they counted using their hands and feet?
A pig herder who left Italy to explore whom ended up wiping out the Inca
Who is Fransisco Pizarro?
Only this social group could read and write the codices.
Who were the priests?
The Inca Empire was located along this major South American mountain range.
What is the Andes Mountians?
In the story about the Aztec girl, Xochitl, she described the monthly Festival being grand and wondrous. What were the names of the two groups of Aztec Warriors?
What is the Jaguar Knights and the Eagle Knights?
The Maya built large temples to study this dazzling science, which they were famous for.
What is Astronomy?
Which two threats were awaiting the Inca?
Who had direct communication with the priest to give him information from above?
Who were the Gods/Goddesses?
According to legend, the Aztecs were told to build their city where they saw an eagle doing this on a cactus.
What is an eagle on a cactus eating a snake on a lake?
This Aztec festival honored the Earth Mother Goddess and included music, ritual chants, and sacrifice.
What is Ochpaniztli?
Instead of writing, the Inca used knotted strings called these to record information.
What are quipus?
In Maya society, this powerful class included specialists like scribes and astronomers who helped rulers maintain authority.
Who are the nobles/priests/scholars?
Which social class were most Inca people a part of, and what jobs did they do?
What are commoners?