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| Another word for picture writing |
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| The two cultures that had a system of writing |
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| Educated Guess based on facts |
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| Another word for an Aztec road |
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| How many causeways did the Aztecs have? |
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| There are 3 Mayan books. The rest were burned because the Spanish thought they were evil. |
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| How many Mayan books are there today? What happened to the rest? Why? |
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| These are the stair steps carved into the mountains. |
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| This is the counting cord or string used by the Incas? |
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| Counting string or cord used by the Inca. |
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| These are the preserved, freeze-dried potatoes used by the Incas? |
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| How many types of bridges did the Inca have? |
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| The Inca's chair that was made of gold |
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| Floating islands in the middle of a swamp |
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| What does it mean to barter? |
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| Who used the barter system? |
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| What does it mean to retreat? |
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| What does it mean to resist the frost? |
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| What was the largest Mayan city? |
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| What number did the Mayan invent? |
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| What number base did Mayans count by? |
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| What number did the Inca count by? |
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| How many calendars did the Mayans have? |
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D= Dams I= Irrigation R= Reservoirs
T= Terraces |
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| The Mayans used DIRT to solve water problems. What is DIRT? |
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1) Natural Disaster
2) Farming or Agriculture problems
3) Poor peasants attack the rich
4) Outside invaders |
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| What are 2 theories about what happened to the Maya? |
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| What was the Inca capital? |
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| What was the Aztec capital? |
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| What continent were the Inca on? |
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| What present day country is where the Maya and Aztec lived? |
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| What landform did the Inca have to build on? |
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TWF T= Transportation W= Wool and
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| What 3 things did the llama provide the Incas? |
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| What was the most important food for the Inca? |
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1) It could grow high in the mountains.
2) It could resist the frost. |
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| What are 2 reasons the potato was a good crop to grow? |
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| How many varieties of potato did the Inca grow? |
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Men = Dug the hole
Women = Dropped in the seeds
Children = Scared the animals |
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| How did the Inca farm as a family? |
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| What tool did all the cultures use to plant? |
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C = Canals
A = Aqueducts
T = Terraces |
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| The Inca used CAT to solve their water problems. What is CAT? |
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| Who was the leader of the Inca? |
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| Inca had many wives including his sister. Inca had over 100 children |
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What do we know about the Inca's family?
(Wife and children) |
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1) He only ate off of gold plates
2) He only wore his clothes once
3) His was carried on a gold litter or chair.
4) Every Inca got a new palace.
5) His palace was made of gold |
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| What are 3 ways we know that the Inca was a big spender? |
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| What was the population of Tenochtitlan? |
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| What was the land like in Tenochtitlan? |
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| Aztecs built chinampas. Chinampas were floating islands or gardens. They were made by piling up mud. |
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| What did the Aztecs build to farm in Tenochtitlan? Describe these. |
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| What happened to the losers in tlachtli? |
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| In tlachtli, what was the basket decorated as? |
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| In tlachtli, what shape was the ball court? |
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1) Put the ball through the hoop.
2) If the other team drops the ball. |
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| In tlachtli, what were 2 ways teams could score points? |
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| What the main crop of the Aztecs? |
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1) On men's backs
2) In canoes |
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| How did the Aztecs transport their crops (2 ways)? |
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1) Walkers or pedestrians
2) LLamas |
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| What was allowed on Inca roads? |
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| What was not allowed on both Aztec and Inca roads? |
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| What did the Aztecs want to get from battle? |
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| First tribe to retreat or run away |
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| Who was the loser in Aztec battles? |
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| What 2 cultures used slash and burn farming? |
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| Slash means cut the trees and let them dry. |
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| What is the slash in slash and burn farming? |
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| Burn the trees and use the ashes as fertilizer. |
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| What is the burn in slash and burn farming? |
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| It wore out the soil so that the soil could not be used for another 2-3 years. |
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| What is the problem with slash and burn farming? |
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| Which culture used the freeze-dried process? |
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| Take the potatoes and leave them out to freeze. Then step on the potatoes to get water out. |
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| What is the freeze in the freeze-dried process? |
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| The Incas leave the potatoes outside to dry? |
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| What is the dry in freeze-dried process? |
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| They could last for years without spoiling. |
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| What is the benefit of chunu? |
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| True or False - The Inca used the barter system to trade because they had to carry food on their backs. |
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| True or False - The Maya were one of the first to use the number zero. |
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| True or False - The Aztec and Maya both lived in South America. |
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| True or False - The Inca developed a system of writing using glyphs. |
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| How did the Incas farm in the mountains? |
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| What is another word for agriculture? |
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| The Inca lived in this landform |
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| How did the first people find food? |
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| No one could have ears.... |
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| Follow him and eat the hairs that fell from him. |
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| The Inca had 1 woman whose job was to? |
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| They were worn once and then burned. |
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| What happened to the Inca's clothes? |
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| What animal did the Inca sacrifice every month? |
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| If you were a poor Inca, what could you sacrifice instead of a llama? |
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| How many people lived in the Inca empire? |
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| Who was at the top of the Inca culture? |
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| Who was at the bottom of the Inca society? |
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| The Inca believed that the Inca was also the (blank) god? |
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| The Inca believed that the Inca could never what? |
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| Since the Inca people believed that the Inca could not die, they did what when the Inca died? |
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| At what age did the Aztecs go to school? |
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| The boys learned about warfare, how to hunt and fish. The girls learned about household things like how to sew, cook. |
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| What did the boys learn at the school? What did the girls learn? |
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