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Early Indians
Compare Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Mississippian.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Culture was located in the Middle America and Yucatan Peninsula | Maya |
| Culture was located in Mexico | Aztec |
| Short people, black hair, tattoos,cross eyed and flat fore heads | Maya |
| tall people, broad face with hooked nose, black hair, great physical endurance, had good manners, and very skilled | Aztec |
| Had a form of picture writing | Aztec |
| Tenochtitlan was built on Lake Taxcoco. This capital was built on the island | Aztec |
| Borrowed idea of writing from the Olmecs | Maya |
| Used glyphs for writing | Maya |
| Wrote books on bark or animal skin | Maya |
| Used a shell to equal zero, a dot to equal 1 and a line to equal 5 | Maya |
| Montezuma was greatest emperor of this culture | Aztec |
| Calpolli was a large family group for this culuture | Aztec |
| Had raised roads called causeways | Maya |
| Copain is the second largest city in this culture | Maya |
| This civilization was abandoned suddenly in AD 850 | Maya |
| This civilization invented vanilla | Aztec |
| This civilization had a sewer system in their cities | Aztec |
| Had 60 gods | Aztec |
| Government was like a Democracy | Aztec |
| Invented the "soft taco" | Aztec |
| Used canoes and casways across the water to their island capital | Aztec |
| Made aqueduct channel to bring water into their cities | Aztec |
| Had a religious and regular calendar | Maya |
| Had calendars on the sun and moon movements | Aztec |
| Used cotton to make clothes | Aztec |
| Only used wood and stone for tools | Maya |
| Had metal for weapons and tools | Aztec |
| Montezuma was greatest ruler | Aztec |
| Calpolli or clan | Aztec |
| Cortes took over which civilization? | Aztec |
| A type of brick to make an Aztec home | Adobe |
| Spanish name for a corn pancake (aztec) | Tortilla |
| Cacao Bean | Make Chocolate |
| Chicle (aztec) | Ingredient of chewing gum |
| Telpuchalli | Aztec School for boys and girls |
| Had schools for children in their city buildings | Maya |
| Taught children in the homes of their clan members | Aztec |
| Never developed a system of writing | Inca |
| First person in this tribe was Manco Capac and his sister | Inca |
| Capital city is Cuzco | Inca |
| Built cities in the Andes Mts. | Inca |
| Empire covered Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina | Inca |
| Empire covered 2,500 miles and had 12 million people | Inca |
| Main ruler is called INCA | Inca |
| Pachacutec was famous ruler | Inca |
| built 12,000 miles of roads | Inca |
| Terrace farming in the mountains | Inca |
| Llama was used for transportation, food, and wool | Inca |
| Used base ten counting | Inca |
| Quipus was used to remember numbers | Inca |
| Francisco Pizarro took over which tribe | Inca |
| Ruler had many wives and maybe 100 children | Inca |
| Queen was called coya | Inca |
| Ruler wore a borla or crown | Inca |
| Ruler was carried on gold chair | Inca |
| If ruler died there would be 30 days of mourning and body would be mummified | Inca |
| Mita was a physical labor tax for this tribe | Inca |
| Inti was sun god for this tribe | Inca |
| Used divining to study objects to find magic | Inca |
| Worshipped huacas or scared places or things | Inca |
| Major religious festival each month | Inca |
| 1 to 3 houses made family homestead | Mississippian |
| 10 or so buildings housing 40 - 50 people were called Hamlets | Mississippian |
| Lived around the year 1000 - 1750 | Mississippian |
| Lived along the Mississippi River | Mississippian |
| Known as Mound Builders | Mississippian |
| Used rivers for trade routes and traveled by canoe | Mississippian |
| Traded with people from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico | Mississippian |
| Tribes were ruled by Chiefdoms | Mississippian |
| Leaders lived in luxury and had servants | Mississippian |
| Villages made up of mounds with leaders, temples, and other important buildings placed on top of mounds | Mississippian |
| Animals were thought to be messengers of the spirit world | Mississippian |
| Ceremonies & rituals held on top of mounds led by priests & chief | Mississippian |
| Used tobacco in ceremonies because they believed that smoke carried messages to spirits | Mississippian |
| Used mounds of Earth to bury dead | Mississippian |
| Built largest mound called the Great Serpent | Mississippian |
| Built wooden walls around their cities | Mississippian |
| Seen corn, beans, and squash as the "3 sisters" | Mississippian |
| Arrowheads were made from flint | Mississippian |
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