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