Mesoamerica
The Mayans, as well as the Aztecs and Incas, dependent on a ________________ of social classes.
What is a hierarchy?
The Aztec and Incan economies depended on this to feed large populations.
What is agriculture?
This geographic feature is where the Mayans had their civilization.
Where is the Yucatan Peninsula?
The Incas used this to do mathematics and keep record.
What is a quipu?
This factor had the greatest impact on the development of farming techniques by different American Indian groups in North America.
What is geography?
Where is the Great Plains?
These two indigenous shared the following characteristics.
--calendar system
--human sacrifices
--numbering system
Who were the Mayans and the Aztecs?
This civilization was credited with the achievements below.
--a farming and trading civilization
--oldest civilization in Mesoamerica
--tone monuments and statues were created for religious ceremonies
What is Olmecs?
The Aztec priests had varies responsibilities which include recording religion and history and this activity performed on the pyramids.
What is managing human sacrifices
This geographic feature is furthest to the West in South America?
What is the Andes Mountains?
The Moundbuilders most likely used the mounds that they built for these reasons.
What are religious ceremonies and burial tombs?
This body of water is at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
Where is the Gulf of Mexico?
This civilization can be credited with the achievements on this list.
Observatories
260-day calendar and 365-day calendar
first to develop the concept of zero
Who were the Mayans?
To make use of the swampy lands around Tenochtitlan, the Aztecs created _________________, called chinampas to grow maize, squash, and beans.
What are floating gardens?
This civilization was located on and near the Central Mexican Plateau?
Who are the Aztecs?
This geographic feature is furthest to the east in North America?
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
The homes built by Native Americans from different regions were made in various styles because they had access to different types of these.
What are resources?
This geographic feature is to the east of North and South America.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The Olmec influence spread these influences over a wide area.
What are trade and farming?
This civilization built an extensive road system, had a strong central government, and was located in the Andes Mountains.
Who are the Incas?
What are codices?
Historians believe that the earliest Americans were most likely these.
What are hunters and gatherers?
The geography of North America impacted the development of a unique Native American this.
What is culture?
This body of water is south of the Gulf of Mexico.
Where is the Caribbean Sea?
This civilization was located on and around the Andes Mountains?
Who were the Incas?
This was created by the ancient Incan civilization because there was very little flat land in the Andes mountains.
What is terrace farming?
The indigenous people of the Mesoamerica and Incans practiced a polytheistic religion called this.
What is animism?
As farming spread, people began to do this in one place.
What is settle?
This is what determines the type of food the indigenous people of North America ate.
What is geography?
The Aztecs lived in and near this geographic feature.
Where is the Central Mexican Plateau?