Land/Water Words
A channel dug by people, used by boats or for irrigation.
What is a canal?
The ruler of an empire.
What is an emperor?
A chair attached to beams and carried on shoulders.
What is a litter?
The style and construction of a building.
What is architecture?
A flat piece of land carved out of the side of a mountain on a hill.
What is a terrace?
Moving around in search of food. Not settled in one place.
What is nomatic?
A type of bridge where the road hangs from ropes attached to towers.
What is a suspension bridge?
A picture or symbol representing an idea, an object, a syllable or a sound.
What is a hieroglyph?
A large area of high, flat ground.
What is plateau?
A person who has the training to carry our religious ceremonies or rituals.
What is a priest?
An ancient book with handwritten pages or parts.
What is a codex?
A material used in building that is soft but then gets hard and rocklike.
What is mortar?
The presence of different kinds of landforms, waterways or other geographic features.
What is geographical diversity?
An expert of and the objects from their time period, including stones and bones and pottery.
What is an archaeologist?
To give or to kill something for a religious purpose.
What is a sacrifice?
A building with a religious use or meaning.
What is a temple?
A group of people who have inhabited a region that includes parts of Mexico and Central America.
Who are the Maya?
People that thrived in present day central Mexico but no longer live.
Who are the Aztec?
A count of the number of people living in a certain area.
What is a census?
A raised road built over water to connect islands to a mainland.
What is a causeway?