Early American Civilizations

The Maya

• had a system of writing like hieroglyphics that represented sounds and also had a system for numbers

• spoke Nahuatl

• spoke Quechua

• built chinampas on Lake Texcoco

The Maya had a class system that divided people into different levels of society

• True

• False

Where did the Maya live?

• Central Mexico

• Yucatan Peninsula

• South America mainly Peru

The Maya civilization was a group of connected city-states.

• True

• False

Why would the Maya make sacrifices to their gods?

• to please the gods and get a good harvest

• to use the temple

• to establish the power of their city-state

What is a city-state?

• an artificial field of mud and vegetation used to produce crops

• the building where a bureaucrat works

• the great pyramid that stood at the center of the city

• a city with its surrounding territory that forms an independent state

To please the gods, the Maya offered

• food & animals

• plants & precious objects

• human sacrifice

• all of the above

Which proves the Maya were successful mathematicians and astronomers?

• They built a pyramid

• They played a complicated ball game

• They created a 365 day calendar

• all of the above

Most Maya scribes recorded their people's history in a folded book made of tree bark called

• a glyph

• a book

• a stelae

• a codex

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Where was the Aztec civilization located?

• Valley of Mexico

• Yucatan Peninsula

• South America, mostly Peru