Maya, Aztec, Inca Review

Floating island gardens for growing crops?

• Aztec calendar

• Aztec government

• chinampas

• polytheistic

Why are Aztec chinampas sustainable agriculture?

• they transformed the land forms to better suit farming.

• they make more tomatoes than regular farming

• they are not sustainable

• they made warriors better at fighting

An advanced city of canals, markets, on a grid pattern with residential sections that the Aztecs built on an island in the lake that is present day Mexico City?

• causeway

• Aztec architecture

• Aztec calendar

• Tenochtitlan

Why did the Aztecs sacrifice people to their gods?

• To please the gods and keep their world ordered

• To kill enemies

• To use human meat for food

• To make people their slaves

These treasures paid out to Aztec leaders to show loyalty included jewels, food and captives for sacrifices.

• Aztec agriculture (farm)

• Aztec government

• Tributes (gifts)

• Empire

What is the slash and burn method of farming?

• Slash and burn means you cut down mountain sides

• Ordering food at market places.

• When you plant crops in valleys

• Slash and burn requires you to cut or dry the trees out, burn the area. This will not only clear the area for planting, but the burnt ash will fertilize the earth.

Why did the Maya perform blood sacrifices?

• to grow more food

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• to keep the order of the universe

• to make their enemies afraid of them

What is one problem of Maya Slash and Burn farming?

• It can cause deforestation by burning all the trees and decreases vegetation

• It can cause bad soil

• It can cause loss of rocks in the soil

• It makes rivers lose their river beds.

Also known as corn and the first major crop farmed in the Americas?

• apples

• maize

• barley

• beans

What made the calendar of the Maya so impressive?

• It was based on the commandments of the gods

• It used advanced mathematics and astronomy to make predictions and mark religious holidays

• It was the first calendar to have months

• It used geography to make predictions