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mesoamerica
meso america
Question | Answer |
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popol Vuh | maya bible/torah |
beauty for mayans | athought flat head and crossed eyes |
Quipu | an Inca device for recording information, consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways. |
Chocolate | The mayans created chocolate with cocoa beans and made more chocolate and drinks |
City state | city state is an independent political city almost a state it may have its own gov |
Sapa Inca | sapa inca was the king/emperor incas thought he was son of the sun god |
human sacrifices | mayans and aztec killed humans in honor of god |
tenochtitlan | tenochtitlan was were the aztec lived it was a small island in central america |
montezuma the ll | in 1500 there was an aztec emperor named montezuma the ll no one could look at him in eyes |
machu picchu | Machu picchu is a famous city made by incas |
inca bridges | incas made bridges from grass and no machinery |
chichen itza | maya's temple light twinkled on the temple |
sacred round | mayan calendar 260 days long |
llamas | llamas were used for food, clothes, and transportation |
cactus | sun god told aztec were they find a bird perched on cactus that is were they shall build their city |
inca messengers | inca messengers had to remember whatever the king, emperor, or who ever it may be until they stopped at a rest stop and told the other messenger and that messenger would tell the person the message it was for |
spanish explorers | the spanish ended the incas and aztec rthe 2 people who stopped them were cortes and pizarro |
punishments | the aztec would get chile pepper in his or her eyes if misbehaved |
beauty for incas | shampee |
noble, priest, and peasants | priest were teachers and had the sacrifices, nobles lived in litters, peasants live in mud huts and worked |
punishments for society | the society used peoples bones as instruments |
inca life | incas grew crops half for themselves half for the empire they were ruled by sapa inca |
mayan life | mayans loved chocolate created a calendar also played a game called pok ta pok loser dies |
Aztec life | aztec mostly sacrificed had a city named tenochtitlan |
Pizzaro | ened inca empire |
cortes | ended aztec empire |