Mesoamerica Review

4. This civilization is known for huge stone heads wearing helmets
5. The oldest and most important city of the Olmec
7. The Incas developed this system of recording information by making knots on colorful strings
8. Runners who carried messages between Incan cities
10. The Olmec were called this because they were the first civilization in Mesoamerica and began many traditions followed by later civilizations
13. This civilization was led by a king and had a society broken down into six strict social classes
14. This civilization developed from modern day Southern Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula, into Guatemala & Belize
15. These people's most important accomplishments included floating gardens, causeways and aqueducts
18. This farming technique involved building steps of land into a mountainside to create flat areas used to farm
19. This was so important to the Maya, that they worshipped a god known as Hun Hunahpu
20. These people's most important accomplishments included medical advancements, and a system to record information
21. The agricultural technique of chopping down trees, burning the brush, and using the ash left over to make fertile soil

1. These people conquered the Mayans, Aztec & the Incas
2. This empire in South America was located over the area now known as Ecuador, Peru, and Chile
3. The capital city of the Aztec
6. This civilization worshipped many gods but had one important god with the face of a jaguar and a body of a human
9. These people's most important accomplishments included a writing system, a calendar based on the movement of the planets, canals, and terraces for farming
11. These people's most important accomplishments included the use of a calendar, the building of ceremonial centers and development of the ball game
12. In the Aztec civilization, people were organized in groups, very similar to city-states, called this
16. The capital city of the Incas
17. The Aztecs created these floating gardens to provide space to grow food