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Mesoamerica
Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Era of time known as the Classical Ages of Mesoamerica. | 600 to 1450 C.E. |
| True or False: The Classical Ages of Europe occurred before than that of Mesoamerica. | True. |
| First civilization in Mesoamerica. | Olmec. |
| Two civilizations that took over after the Olmec fell. | Maya and Teotihuacan. |
| Where were the Olmec, Maya, and Teotihuacan located? | Modern day Mexico. (Mesoamerica) |
| What type of agriculture did the Maya use and why? | Slash and burning because the soil was not fertile, as they lived in a rain forest. They also built terraces that trapped the silt carried by the rivers. |
| True or False: Religion played a major role in Maya life. (What shows this?) | True, they had large temples and stelae. |
| True or False: The Maya traded with many. | False, there was little trade. |
| What type of writing did the Maya use? | Hieroglyphics. |
| Who made up the highest social class in Mayan society and were they connected somehow? | Priests and kings. (Kings were not considered divine) |
| True or False: They Maya had many tools. | False, they had no wheel or metal tools, much human labor was needed. |
| Why was religion so important to the Maya? | They depended on agriculture, and they believed the gods made the sun rise each day. |
| What did the Maya do in order to please the gods? | They sacrificed humans. |
| Who did the Maya mainly sacrifice? | Fallen nobles and prisoners of war. |
| Why did the Maya choose human sacrifice as a way to please the gods? | They thought blood and human life were invaluable. |
| How did the priests play a role in Maya human sacrifice? | They had powers to communicate with the gods and had access to the nine levels of hell. |
| Classical Mesoamerican civilizations. | Maya and the Tenotihuacan. |
| Post Classical Mesoamerican civilizations. | Toltec and Aztec. |
| What changed between the classical and post classical ages? | Population increased, agriculture increased, warfare increased, and centralized government became more powerful. |
| How did the Maya priests decide when rituals would the rituals would take place? | The Maya had an accurate solar calendar and a rituals calendar. |
| How did the Maya fall? | It is unknown to scientists as to why the Maya fell. Theories include foreign invasion, civil war, and disease. |
| What was the purpose of the city of Teotihuacan? | It was a center of religious rituals and government administration. |
| The ____________pyramids of the Sun and Moon were one of the largest of those ever built. | Teotihuacan. |
| What was the first city of the western hemisphere? | Teotihuacan. |
| How did the archaeologists learn about the civilizations of Mesoamerica? | Through art and architecture. |
| True or False: Religion was an important part of Teotihuacan society and the priests were a part of the elite. | True. |
| How did the Teotihuacan people know when to plant crops? | They developed a solar calendar. |
| The _________________ people traded far and wide, while the _____________ were not known for trading. | Teotihuacan, Maya. |
| What is known about Teotihuacan government? | It is unknown as to what type of government the Teotihuacan had. |
| How did the Teotihuacan collapse? | It is unknown how they collapsed, but historians believe it was violent. |
| What caused the switch between the Classical Ages to the Post Classical Ages? | After the Teotihuacan fell, chaos broke out between regional states. They became more concerned with military organization, which was a change from the Classical Ages. |
| What group unified Mexico after the fall of the Teotihuacan? | The Toltecs. |
| How did the Teotihuacan and the Toltecs irrigate their crops? | They tapped the water coming down from the mountains. |
| How did the Toltecs become so powerful? | Though military prowess and conquering land. |
| Why was the Toltec government weak? | They had two rulers instead of one. |
| What caused the decline of the Toltecs? | Their greatest leader, Topiltizin, was exiled. |
| Who replaced the Tolecs? | The Aztecs. |
| How did the Aztecs adapt to their aquatic environment? | They drained swamps, built chinampas, which boosted agricultural production. |
| How did the Aztecs rise to power? | Through military expansion. |
| How was the king of the Aztecs selected? | Through election. |
| What did the freemen of the Aztecs do? | They cultivated, built buildings, and constructed roads. |
| How did the Aztecs gain slaves? | They were prisoners of war. |
| Why were the Aztec priests so significant? | They carried out the human sacrificial rituals. |
| Why was pleasing the gods so important to the Aztecs? | They believed that pleasing the gods kept the sun rising everyday. |
| The ____________ came after the Chavin in the Andes region of South America. | Moche. |
| How did the Moche fall? | It is unknown as to why the Moche fell, but it is believed to be due to a series of natural disasters. |
| The ____________ came after the Moche. | Inca. |
| What did the Inca have an advanced knowledge of? | Agriculture, they knew when to plant certain crops and had canals and dikes. |
| What were the common themes of all the Andean Civilizations? | They all had no written language, and had some sort of labor system. |
| Why did the Inca have no merchant class? | They did not have long distance trade. |
| What type of religion did the Inca have? | Polytheistic. |
| True or False: Religion played a large role in Inca society. (Explain religion's effect on social classes) | True. Their priests were at the top of their class and the king was considered a descendant from the sun god. |
| What happened to the Inca kings after they died? | They were mummified. |
| Did the Aztecs have a large merchant class? | Yes, because they traded frequently. |
| How did the Inca sacrifices compare to the Aztec's? | Both were fueled by religion, but the Inca did not sacrifice humans and did it at a much smaller scale. |
| How did the Aztecs compare to the Inca intellectually? | The Aztecs had a written language and a solar calendar. The Inca did not have a written language, but had the spoken language of Quechua. |
| How did the Inca farm? | They built terraces for crops. |
| The Inca had an extensive ______________ system, which spread their _____________ and __________________. | Road, language, religion. |
| Both the Inca and the Aztecs had a powerful _______________. | Military. |
| How was North American government different than South America? | In North America, there was no organized civilization, just nomads. |
| Where were the Anasazi located? | Southwestern United States. |
| Where were the Cahokia located? | Near the Mississippi and Ohio River. |
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