Indigenous Civilizations

What were two ways that Aztecs practiced their religion?

• Practicing animal & human sacrifice

• Read holy texts like the Vedas

• Fasted during holy holidays

• Hosted religious ceremonies and festivals

Who was typically on the bottom of social class systems in the Americas?

• Nobles/Rulers

• Slaves

• Serfs

• Commoners

What were two ways that the Inca adapted to their large, mountainous empire?

• Terrace farming to expand the amount of available farmland

• Chinampas to create floating farms in the water

• Roads to connect the empire together for military and trade benefits

• Teepees to live a nomadic life constantly moving around the Andes

Floating gardens built by the Aztecs

• chinampas

• mita

• masonry

• terraced farming

Select the civilization that lived on the Yucatan Peninsula, played a unique ballgame, and had a complex calendar.

• Aztec

• Inca

• Iroquois

• Maya

This civilization lived ONLY in Mexico.

• Maya

• Aztec

• Inca

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

• 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