What do you call the mountain ranges running through much of Central America : volcanoes, cordilleras, mountains
What are cordilleras
100
What is the name for Middle America a region that includes central and southern Mexico and Central America : Mexicano or Mesoamerica
What is Mesoamerica
100
The Olmecs are best known for these carved from basalt rock : giant heads, swords, vases
What are giant heads
100
The largest of the ancient Mayan cities was: Whoville or Tikal
What is Tikal
100
What are deep natural wells called: waterways or cenotes
What are cenotes
200
Many of central America's mountains are : active volcanoes, snow capped, cinderblocks
What are active volcanoes
200
What do you call the planting of different crops together : intercropping or share cropping
What is intercropping
200
The most important god to the Olmecs was : the tiger, the swan or the jaguar god
What is the jaguar god , a cat god that they believed brought rain,
200
The earliest Mayans lived as farmers in the tropical rain forests of : North America and Canada or southern Mexico and Central America
What is southern Mexico and Central America
200
How was the Mayan number system different than other ancient cultures: it had negative numbers or it has a symbol that stood for zero (0)
What is : It had a number that stood for zero
300
Most of South America lies in the part of the Earth called the : twilight zone or tropical zone
What is the tropical zone
300
What is the igneous volcanic rock used for cutting called : pumice or obsidian
What is obsidian
300
What natural resource did the Olmecs trade with , which gave them their name: water, rubber , trees
What is rubber: Olmec means People from the land of rubber
300
Temporary rulers are called : queens or regents
What are regents : some woman actually served as regents
300
The cities of the Mayans were alike in many ways . All had what structures : huts or stone temples
What are: stone temples which shows how important religion was to the Mayans
400
The areas north and south of the tropical zone are called : the temperate zone or the ugly zone
What is the temperate zone
400
What is the ruling class known as : snobs, elite or dictators
What is the elite
400
What do you call the area used for religious ceremonies: altar or ceremonial center.
What is ceremonial center
400
What do you call the burning and cutting of the rain forest to provide land for growing crops: intercropping or slash and burn farming
What is slash and burn farming : this only supports small communities since the ash used to fertilize the soil only last for 3 years . then soil has to lie free of crops for several years until the soil regains nutrients.
400
The Mayan culture was strong between A.D. 300 and A.D. 900 , this time was known as the: Republic or Classic period
What is ; The classic period
500
What is the name that scientist of today call the ancient land bridge between northern Asia and North America: Russia or Beringia
What is Beringia
500
What is the oldest Olmec city called: Docheryville, or San Lorenzo
What is San Lorenzo
500
What do you call a kind of sling that makes it easier to carry heavy loads: backpack or tumpline
What is a tumpline
500
What do you call the picture symbols that represented objects , ideas and sounds in the Mayan writing system: paintings or glyphs
What are glyphs
500
What do you call the books the Mayans used containing glyphs : bible or codices
What are :codices. They told of religious and astronomical subjects.