Ancient Civilization

What is a quipu?

• make or form (sloping land) into a number of level areas resembling a series of steps to create a flat area to farm

• an ancient Inca device for recording information, consisting of colored threads knotted in different ways

• bringing water to the land to help plants grow

• religion

Iconography is the images or symbols related to something

• true

• false

____________ a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters

• Creation Myth

• Civilization

• Hieroglyphics

• Quipu

Creation ______ is a symbolic narrative of how that world began and how people first came to inhabit it

The first kind of book made was called a _________.

• codex

• irrigation

• terracing

• quipu

A ___________ is a highly organized group of people with their own language and way of living that includes their cultural achievements 

• Creation Myth

• Codex

• Civilization

• City-State

A city-state is a state that has its own government and consists of a city and the area around it

• False

• True

_________ are small, stationary, artificial islands built on a freshwater lake for agricultural purposes (farming)

• codex

• chinampas

• city-state

• civilization

What is a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters?

• Hieroglyphics

• Civilization

• City-State

• Terrace Farming

Were polytheistic

• Inca

• Maya

• Aztec