Mesoamerica

Who used terrace farming?

• Inca

• Aztec

• Mayan

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

Grand emperor retreat complex built by the Inca

• Machu Picchu

• Chichen Itza

• Pueblo Bonita

• Cahokia

• 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

leader of the Spanish invasion of Aztec land

• Cortes

• Pizarro

• Moctezuma

• Pachacuti

The Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan was created in the center of a...

• Marsh

• River

• Ocean

• Lake

How did the Mayans end?

• the Spaniards conquered

• It is a mystery

• Olmecs took their land

• hurricane destroyed their civilization

Aztec emperor

• Moctezuma

• Pachacutti

• Cortes

• Mayan

Floating gardens built by the Aztecs

• chinampas

• mita

• masonry

• terraced farming