Maya Inca Aztec Exam

This civilization built its capital city of Tenochtitlan on an island in a lake.

• Maya

• Aztec

• Inca

This civilization settled in the Yucatan peninsula in the current day country of Guatemala.

• Maya

• Aztec

• Inca

This civilization settled in Western South America, mainly in the country of Peru.

• Maya

• Aztec

• Inca

This civilization is credited with being one of the firsts to use the number zero.

• Maya

• Aztec

• Inca

Which civilization built chinampas, or floating gardens?

• Maya

• Aztec

• Inca

Which civilization created a calendar based on stars and planets?

• Maya

• Aztec

• Inca

Which civilization ruled the longest for 4,000 years?

• Maya

• Aztec

• Inca

In which civilization did farmers build terraces to grow crops on steep mountainsides?

• Maya

• Aztec

• Inca

What is culture? 

• A shared way of life
• The spread of ideas
• a short well known expression 
• a custom prohibiting or restricting a practice 

A device used by the Inca to record information. The Inca used llama wool to create a string with colored knots that symbolized things like blood, old, farming, etc.

• codex

• quipu

• glyphs

• pok-tok