MesoAmerica

Question 1

Where did the Maya live?

Answer 1

Yucatan Peninsula

Question 2

What did the Maya build?

Answer 2

Small farms and villages.

Question 3

What grew into cities by 200 CE?

Answer 3

Villages

Question 4

What was Maya built around?

Answer 4

Religious Centers

Question 5

What was at the top of the Pyramids made of Limestone?

Answer 5

Temples where the priests and kings held religious rituals.

Question 6

Archaeologists believed the Maya began working the land as early as when?

Answer 6

1800 BCE (before current era)

Question 7

What city was a major power city that bordered the highlands and lowlands?

Answer 7

Palenqu

Question 8

As Maya cities grew, what did farmers need to produce more of?

Answer 8

Food.

Question 9

Maya farmed in places they had not farmed before - they farmed the sides of hills that were carved into flat what?

Answer 9

Terraces.

Question 10

The Maya dug what type of system to bring water to dry areas?

Answer 10

irrigation (water) systems.

Question 11

By using these new farming techniques, the Maya grew what types of things?

Answer 11

Corn, Beans and Squash.

Question 12

Who did the Maya trade with?

Answer 12

Highland and Lowland people and Central America and Mexico.

Question 13

What foods did Maya receive that they could not produce themselves?

Answer 13

Jade, Feathers and Cacao Beans

Question 14

What food held the greatest value used as money and was restricted to only the most important Maya?

Answer 14

Cacao Beans.

Question 15

The name of a glass like volcanic rock that was traded and used as money is called what?

Answer 15

Obsidian rock

Question 16

The Maya worshipping many gods is called what?

Answer 16

Polytheism (they also worshipped their rulers)

Question 17

What did the Maya believe would keep the Gods happy?

Answer 17

royal blood (bloodletting)

Question 18

The city of Palenque built a temple that was used to record pascal’s what?

Answer 18

Achievements

Question 19

This priest-like King killed animals and sometimes people as an offering to the gods.

Answer 19

Pacal (a Mayan priest and ruler)

Question 20

How long was Pacal a ruler of Maya?

Answer 20

68 years.

Question 21

a writing system - each picture stood for an object or a sound is called what?

Answer 21

Hierglypic

Question 22

What is it called when you know the exact moon phases?

Answer 22

Astronomy

Question 23

The Maya created a number system called what?

Answer 23

Mathematics

Question 24

What was the game called where players tried to hit a solid rubber ball through a stone ring by using their elbows, wrists and hips?

Answer 24

Pok-ta-pok

Question 25

When playing Pok-ta-pok, people from all levels of Maya society watched and placed bets on the outcome of the game. What would be won and lost during a game?

Answer 25

Slaves, land and homes.

Question 26

What happened to the Captain of the Pok-ta-pok team if they lost?

Answer 26

the losing team was sacrificed and the captain was beheaded.

Question 27

How long did the Maya culture thrive?

Answer 27

about 600 years.

Question 28

By 900 CE, where did the Maya abandon their cities?

Answer 28

the jungle

Question 29

Long periods of what caused crop failure?

Answer 29

Drought (really dry weather)

Question 30

Invaders from where helped destroy the city-states?

Answer 30

Invaders from central Mexico

Question 31

What was a narrow strip of land linking North and South America called?

Answer 31

Isthums of Panama

Question 32

What was the thumb on the eastern side of the region jutting out into the Gulf of Mexico?

Answer 32

Yucatan Peninsula

Question 33

What connected city to the mainland?

Answer 33

Causeaways

Question 34

What was a tall thin slab of rock called?

Answer 34

Stelae

Question 35

What was the name of the building used for observing the night sky?

Answer 35

Observatories

Question 35

What was the writing code?

Answer 35

Hieroglyphs

Question 36

A calendar based on the movement of the sun is called a what?

Answer 36

solar calendar

Question 37

What was a long period without water?

Answer 37

A drought.

Question 38

What was the name of a large colorful bird with feathers throughout the empire?

Answer 38

Quetzal

Question 39

a wide, round open container for washing

Answer 39

A basin

Question 40

What was a group of many kings where they offered their own men to help each other rule empires?

Answer 40

Triple Alliance

Question 41

What was a system where one person has unlimited powers?

Answer 41

Absolute Monarchy

Question 42

What was war council made up of warriors?

Answer 42

Supreme Council

Question 43

What was gardens on raised beds built on Lake Texcoco?

Answer 43

Chinamps

Question 44

What was a wall to separate water?

Answer 44

A Dike

Question 45

What was a conduct built to convey water?

Answer 45

Aqueducts

Question 46

What was a natural glass-like rock?

Answer 46

Obsidian

Question 47

What was a book used for recording information?

Answer 47

Codex

Question 48

What was the geography of the Aztec empire like?

Answer 48

A moderate climate, interconnecting lakes, forests, wild game.

Question 49

What did the Aztec's build?

Answer 49

Raised roads across water.

Question 50

The Aztec's founded what Capital?

Answer 50

Tenochilitan

Question 51

What were the Aztec's floating gardens called?

Answer 51

Chinamps

Question 52

What did the Aztec's create canal's for?

Answer 52

Irrigation and transportation of goods and people.

Question 53

What did canal's serve as?

Answer 53

Roads for trade and travel between villages.

Question 54

What did the Aztec's call themselves?

Answer 54

Mexica

Question 55

Describe the Mexica.

Answer 55

They were skilled warriors, 1 ruler ruled over the empire.

Question 56

Who was the leader of the empire?

Answer 56

Montezica

Question 57

What was the population of the Aztec empire?

Answer 57

25 million

Question 58

Aztec's grew stronger through what 3 things?

Answer 58

War, Tribute and Trade

Question 59

The Aztecs made neighboring tribes pay them in order to not be attacked. This was called what?

Answer 59

Tribute (they did not like being bullied)

Question 60

Aztecs attempted to please the Gods by what type of sacrifice?

Answer 60

Human Sacrifice

Question 61

Sacrifices used to intimidate people and other tribes is called what?

Answer 61

Military Deterrent

Question 62

Where did typical sacrifices take place?

Answer 62

At the top of a high temple

Question 63

Approximately how many Aztec were sacrificed each year?

Answer 63

20,000

Question 64

The serpent god of creation was called what? The Aztec's predicted he would return in the early....?

Answer 64

Quetzcatal 1500's

Question 65

When you worship many gods it is called what?

Answer 65

Polytheism.

Question 66

Who did the Aztecs worship?

Answer 66

Gods of Sun, Rain, Moon

Question 67

What year did the famine occur?

Answer 67

1450

Question 68

Why did the famine occur?

Answer 68

Because of poor weather and bad farming conditions

Question 69

The Aztec priests began to make many sacrifices to the Gods during the famine - why?

Answer 69

Because there was not enough food, so the more people they sacrificed the less people there was to feed.

Question 70

1 ruler ruled, wives held high positions and respect

Answer 70

Royal Family

Question 71

Priests, military officers and government leaders

Answer 71

Nobles

Question 72

They imported goods

Answer 72

Merchants

Question 73

They worked in the fields

Answer 73

Commoners/Serfs

Question 74

People could be sold into slavery

Answer 74

Slaves

Question 75

What is the correct order of the Aztec Social order?

Answer 75

Royal Family, Nobles, Merchants, Commoners, Slaves

Question 76

Who was Hernand Cortez?

Answer 76

He was a Spanish Conquistador that learned about the Aztec's and their riches.

Question 77

Who did Cortez put in jail?

Answer 77

Monteczuma

Question 78

After the Aztec's fought off the Spaniards, what did the Spaniards leave behind?

Answer 78

Small Pox

Question 79

Who did Cortez defeat?

Answer 79

the Aztecs

Question 80

What year did the Aztecs finally surrender?

Answer 80

1521

Question 81

How many Aztecs survived?

Answer 81

2 million

Question 82

Why did native tribes join Cortes?

Answer 82

Because they were tired of paying tribute to the Aztecs

Question 83

When Cortez arrived in 1519, who did Moctezuma think Cortez was?

Answer 83

He thought he was Queszalcoatl (the serpent god of creation)

Question 84

What Capital did they invite Cortez to?

Answer 84

Tenochititlan