Meso-America

Question 1

Pyramids

Answer 1

Fake Mountains used to ‘get closer’ to God

Question 2

Meso-American Beliefs

Answer 2

Couldn’t explain death so they worshiped it with sacrifices

Question 3

Olmecs

Answer 3

Means ‘Rubber People,’ they had working calenders, invented the wheel, invented the first ball game (Ulama) and made giant head statues

Question 4

Mayans

Answer 4

Had their own calenders, understood numbers, based time on 52-year cycles, some of the largest cities of the era, they grew maize because it was cheap and very accessible, Mysteriously Disappeared

Question 5

Spanish Conquistadors

Answer 5

Aztecs were captured by Cortes, Incas were captured by Pizarro. The Spanish were greatly outnumbered but won because of their beleifs.

Question 6

Aztecs

Answer 6

Called them selves the Mexicas which means ‘the People.’ Capital City of Tenochtitlan housed 250,000 people. Believed in a God named Quetzacotl. Cortes pretended to be their god and tricked them into Christianity.

Question 7

Incas

Answer 7

Located in the Peruan Mountains and reaches to Brazil and Ecuador. Machu Pichu is so high up that it wasn’t discovered until 1906. The capital city is Cuzco and all nobles spoke their own language- Quechuan. Like the Aztecs, the Incas also believed in a Sun God from the East but theirs’ was named Virachoca and a different spaniard pretended to be him. Their government was also designed so that the emperor had supreme authority.