Mesoamerica

What does the term "mesoamerican" mean?

• Middle Passage
• Middle America, between North and South America
• Middle America, including states like Texas and Oklahoma
• Messy America

What two groups had two calendars, one for tracking religion and one for farming?

• Maya and Aztec
• Olmec and Toltec
• Hopi and Zuni
• Tlingit and Chinook

Because of the lack of available farmland, the Aztecs built

• causeways.
• chinampas.
• irrigation canals.
• terraces.

The Maya civilization was after the Aztec civilization.

• TRUE
• FALSE

• Cultivation of corn, tomatoes, and beans • pictorial writing system • Human sacrifices to the sun god • Accurate calendar of 365 days • Use of the number zero * Abandoned cities around year 900 AD

• Aztec
• Mayan
• Inca

* Chinampas
*conquered by Spanish
*365 day calendar
*stone temples without cement
*writing

• Mayan
• Aztec
• Inca

*terrace farming
* quipu (knots on strings)
* road system
* Machu Piccu

• Maya
• Aztec
• Inca

What do Aztec, Maya, and Inca agricultural systems show about their civilizations?

• relied on mechanized agricultural techniques
• carried on extensive food trade with each other
• adapted to their environments with new farming techniques
• relied on the growth of single-crop

Which agricultural technique was used by the Incas?

• Chinampas
• Slash and burn
• Terrace farming
• Plantations

What do both the Aztec use of the calendar and the Maya writing system show about their cultures before the arrival of the Europeans?

• they traded a lot with Africa
• they made many advancements
• they declined because of invasion and disease
• they converted others to Catholicism