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Maya Inca Aztec Key Terms 3 Civilizations Important Facts

Name for the Maya ruler.

A 100

What is halach uinic?

Offerings to please the gods.

A 200

What is blood (piercing themselves) or human sacrifices?

This was the distinctive Mayan

architectural feature.

A 300

What is the corbeled arch?

Maya agricultural techniques to produce

more food.

A 400

What are slash-and-burn, raised fields, and terraces?

Game that also had religious

significance.

A 500

What is pok-a-tok?

Inca technique for surgery.

B 100

What is trephination?

Most famous city, ruins, of the

Inca.

B 200

What is Machu Picchu?

Incas used these to keep records.

B 300

What are quipu?

Inca forced conquered people

to learn this.

B 400

What is Quechua (language)?

Allowed Inca to consult their dead

rulers and have them on hand at festivals.

B 500

What is mummification?

Aztec symbol that led them to settle in

the Valley of Mexico.

C 100

What is the Eagle and the Cactus?

Major ways the Aztec adapted to

their island location (3).

C 200

What is built causeways, aqueduct and chinampas?

Reason Aztecs thought human sacrifice was

important.

C 300

What is to keep the gods strong and the world safe from destruction?

Main Aztec farming

technique.

C 400

What are chinampas or floating gardens?

Given to the Aztec as tribute.

C 500

What is food, cacao, gems, stones, cotton, cloth, animals/skins, shells,

building materials, soldiers?

Making clothes/cloth for army, serving in army,

working in mines, building roads, work on

government farms.

D 100

What is mit’a?

Ancestors of the Maya who built

huge stone heads.

D 200

Who are the Olmec?

Stone columns that the Mayans

wrote on.

D 300

What are steles?

Leaders of groups

conquered by the Incas.

D 400Who are the curacas?

D 500

Role geography played in Maya

economy.What people traded natural

resources locally throughout the civilization?

We had a written language.

E 100

Who are the Maya and Aztec?

Civilization that lived in large

settlements called calpullis.

E 200

Who are the Aztec?

We do not have merchants.

E 300

Who are the Inca?

This civilization had a vertical

economy.

E 400

Who are the Inca?

Similarities between the rise of both the

Aztec and Inca Empires.

E 500

What is both expanded through warfare and alliances, and both expected tribute or

allegiance?

This civilization traded at the Great

Market.

F 100

Who are the Aztec?

Item used as a form of money

in trade.

F 200

What are cacao beans?

Civilizations that set the stage for the

development of the Inca civilization.

F 300

Who are the Chavin, Nazca, Moche and Chimu?

These civilizations used a barter

system for trade

F 400

Who are the Maya, Inca, and Aztec?

Created the process of freeze dried

food.

F 500

Who are the Inca?

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Same religious beliefs: Priest-Kings, polytheism and human sacrifice.

Different achievements and farming techniques. Maya developed a calendar

and number system, Inca created a complex road system and the Aztecs used

chinampas to farm crops.