The Maya
What is step-pyramids?
The Inca used this device, which involved colored strings and different knotting systems, for record-keeping purposes.
What is quipu?
The Aztec empire used this system whereby the people who came into the empire had to may payments of goods to the Aztec government
What is tribute?
What is the Maya?
The name given to the region including central and southern Mexico and much of Central America.
What is Mesoamerica?
True or False: The Mayan Civilization was composed of many, large, independent city-states, NOT a united political empire.
What is True.
The Incas developed this 14,000-mile system to help unite their very large empire.
This is the most important god in the Aztec polytheistic religion. He was the god of both sun and war.
Who is Huitzilopochtli?
This civilization used terrace farming to use as much land as possible for farming.
What is the Inca?
The development of a complex, solar-based Mayan calendar supports the idea that they were knowledgeable about these fields of study. (There are two possible answers)
What is math? What is astronomy?
The game played by the Mayans that was at the cultural center of every city-state and could result in the sacrifice of members of the losing side was called:
What is pok-a-tok?
This was one advancement in agriculture we saw in the Inca civilization that enabled them to expand their food supply. (There are three possible answers.)
What is a canal irrigation system? What is the use of natural fertilizers? What is terraced farming?
The name of the capital of the Aztec civilization
What is Tenochtitlan?
This civilization made advancements in medicine including performing surgery on the skull, using basic anesthesia, and mummifying their dead.
What is Inca?
This is the name of the sacred, or ritual, calendar of the Mayans that helped them determine religious and ceremonial events.
What is the Sacred Round?
The Mayans used _____ in their religious ceremonies because it was believed that blood gave the gods strength. (there are two possible responses, will accept either)
What is human sacrifice?
What is animal sacrifice?
These animals were domesticated by the Inca and their wool used for textile creation. (there are two possible answers)
What are Llama? What are Alpaca?
This is the name given to the ingenious farming methods used within the Aztec capital city. These were floating farms within a canal system.
This civilization considered the sun a warrior god who would fight against the forces of darkness every night.
What is Aztec?
The royal residence of the Inca, believed to be "hidden" for many years and rediscovered in 1911
What is Machu Picchu?
The system of writing developed by the Mayans was a _____ writing system.
What is hieroglyphic?
This is the name of the language spoken throughout the Inca empire
What is Quechua?
The gods told the Aztecs to search for an eagle holding a snake in its beak perching on top of a cactus and when they saw this they would know to do what
What is building their capital? (they saw the sign on a swampy island in Lake Texcoco and that is where they built Tenochtitlan)
This civilization is known for amazing engineering accomplishments of building roads and bridges high up in the Andes mountains
What is Inca?
This civilization was polytheistic
What is ALL OF THEM!