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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.