Mesoamerica Vocab Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Lands that were once connected as a bridge that crossed the Bering Strait, allowing humans to migrate from Asia to the Americas. | Aleutian Islands. |
| Earliest civilizations in Mesoamerica, known as "rubber people". | Olmec Civilizations. |
| Raw form of chocolate beans used by some Mesoamerican civilizations as currency. | Cacao. |
| Glass formed when lava comes in contact with water, used by American civilizations for weapons and jewelry. | Obsidian. |
| One of the earliest South American civilizations, located in the Andes Mountains. | Chavin civilization. |
| First domesticated animal in South America, first used by the Chavin. | Llama. |
| Classical Mesoamerican civilization located on the Yucatan Peninsula, used slash and burn farming, organized into city states. | Maya Civilization. |
| Agricultural technique that involves the cutting and burning of trees and plants to create fields and replenish the lands with nutrients, used by the Maya. | Slash and burn agriculture. |
| Memorial pillars built by the Mayan to commemorate great leaders or mark ceremonial ceremonies. | Stelae. |
| Lacerating, disemboweling, and decapitating humans in order to appease the gods. | Human sacrifice. |
| Mesoamerican civilization centered around a lead city, considered to be the earliest American urban center. | Teotihuacan Civilization. |
| Formed by a post classical Mesoamerican civilization warrior tribe centered around the capital of Tula. | Toltec Civilization. |
| Toltec God, known as the feathered serpent. | Quetzalcoatl. |
| Post classical Mesoamerican civilization centered around the capital city of Tenochtitlan. | Aztec civilization. |
| Aztec pictographic civilization. | Codices. |
| Capital city of Aztecs, created in the middle of a lake. | Tenochtitlan. |
| Floating gardens, method of creating small farming plots by draining water from swampy farms. | Chinampas. |
| Aztec system of collecting payments from conquered groups in the form of crops. | Tribute systems. |
| Chief Aztec God, to whom the Aztecs sacrificed thousands of humans. | Huitzilopochtli. |
| South American civilization which rose to power following the collapse of the Chavin in the Andes. | Moche civilization. |
| Most powerful South American civilization, rose to power following the Moche collapse. | Inca civilization. |
| Capital city of the Incan civilization, located in the Andes Mountains of South America. | Cuzco. |
| Record keeping system used by the Incas in which knots on cords represented numerical values. | Khipus. |
| Incan system of forced communal labor, based on the organization of the ayllus. | Mita Labor System. |
| Local communities within the Incan Labor System. | Ayllus. |
| Incan spoken language. | Quechua. |
| North American farming settlements in Southwestern United States. | Anasazi. |
| Permanent stone and adobe buildings which created multi-storied tenement housing. | Pueblos. |
| Enclosures within Anasazi pueblos where rituals would take place. | Kivas. |
| North American mound builder settlements along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. | Cahokia. |
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