Geography
A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides and a specific example is the area in Mexico where the Maya lived
What is a peninsula ?
The 5 characteristics of civilization.
What are: specialized jobs, urban centers, government, writing system, technology?
The belief that the gods need human blood in order to be satisfied.
What is a blood debt?
The last rule of the Inca
Who is Atahualpa?
The system of growing corn, beans, and squash together.
What is milpa?
The driest desert in the world and where it is located.
What is the Atacama Desert and Chile?
The most important resource used by many cultures, especially in Teotihuacan.
What is obsidian?
The 3 things that greatly contributed to the strength of the Aztec Empire.
What are: trade, war, and tribute?
The Inca system for recording information which included color-coded knots.
What is quipus?
The geographic area where the Maya lived.
A long, narrow deep inlet in the sea between high cliffs. In South America, they are located in this country...
What are fjords and Chile?
What are a few important aspects of Teotihuacan's urban center?
-Trade
-Religion
-Temples
-Recreation
The leader of the Aztec as the Spanish arrived.
Who is Montezuma II?
The Spanish conquistador that ended the Inca Empire.
Who is Francisco Pizzaro?
What were some of the Maya achievements?
Astronomy, pyramid temples, calendars, mathematics, milpa
A narrow strip of land that connects two larger pieces of land and is surrounded by water on both sides. What country is an example of this?
What is an isthmus and Panama?
What is polytheism? How does it connect to Mesoamerica and what inspired their gods?
Polytheism is a belief in many gods and all of the Mesoamerican cultures believed in multiple gods inspired by nature.
Explain three technological advancements that the Aztecs used
They used canals as roads to get around their city. They also used causeways to connect their city to the mainland. Finally, they build chinampas which were floating farms connected to the city.
The geographic challenges the Inca faced.
Living in the Andes Mountain range was hard for transportation and communication. Also, the different climate in the Andes was difficult to get used to.
How did the Maya adapt to change their environment?
Milpa to replenish soil, slash and burn jungle and use resources to build house, eat local animals and plants
The 8 countries in Mesoamerica (not including Cuba).
What are: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama?
What is meant by Latin America as a cultural region? What are a few things the region has in common?
Latin America describes the countries of Mexico, Central America, South America and several islands. They are united culturally and share a language, religion and food traditions .
Examples: Maize, Catholicism, history, Spanish, etc.
What three things were the Spanish looking for in Mesoamerica and how did they destroy the Aztecs?
The Spanish were looking for gold, adventure, and religious converts. They defeated the Aztecs with disease, horses and better weapons
Explain how the Inca civilization ended.
Francisco Pizarro killed Atahualpa and stole all of his wealth and the wealth of the government. Also, they spread disease among the Inca, killed many, and enslaved the rest.
What are city-states? How did they function in the Maya civilization?
One ruler and set of laws for each city. Cities function independent of each other and trade together only because of similar language. There was constantly war between the city-states, as there was no ruler to oversee them all as one nation.