Unit 7: Americas

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

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

• True

• False

In the Maya culture, priests were

• not that important

• the second to lowest class of society, above serfs

• equal to farmers because there were so many of them

• ranked just below the king and revered as equally as warriors

The Maya priests were supposed to

• decide when to plant crops

• decide when people could marry

• conducted important religious rituals and ceremonies

• all of the above

Astronomers used observations of the stars to determine

• the best time for planting crops

• the best time for harvesting crops

• when to have religious celebrations

• all of the above

Where was the Aztec civilization located?

• Central Mexico

• Yucatan Peninsula

• South America, mostly Peru

What were chinampas?

• the name for Aztec city-states

• people who lived in Tenochtitlan

• farmlands built in the swamps where the Aztec settled

• walls of skulls at temples