Pre columbia – Flashcards

Before 1000 B.C.E., the two most influential people’s for the formation of early Mesoamerican culture were the _____ and ____

The staple crops that were domesticated during the archaic period in Mesoamerican history were _____ and ____

The people of the Americas most likely never developed the wheel because they had no large _______ _______

The best known _____ works of art are massive stone heads.

The monumental architecture at San Lorenzo suggest that Olmec society was dominated by an elite class of _____-____

The first true city-state of Mesoamerica was ______.

The name of modern-day Mexico comes from the term used by the _____ to refer to themselves.

The Aztec conducted “______ ____” to capture prisoners for sacrifice.

The ______ civilization influenced the Aztec in terms of religion and mythology

The civilization of the ____ conducted an impressive system of roads throughout its empire.

The largest urban centers of the Mayan were ____ and _____

The inca called themselves _____ ___ ___ ____

The razor sharp weapons of the Aztec warriors were made from ______ ____

_______was the Spanish conquestidor who led the conquest of the inca America

To appease huitzilopochtli, and thus delay the ultimate destruction of their world the Aztec practiced _____ _____

The oldest Mesoamerican civilization that laid the foundation for kingship, art,and architecture for future Mesoamerican civilization was that of the ____

The Mesoamerican ball game was a great ritual mythological drama in which the losing team was often ____ to the gods

The inca conquered most of highland and coastal Peru under their greatest ruler _________

A unique feature of the inca empire is that they conquered and governed an area compromising modern day Peru,chile, Ecuador and Bolivia all without a ______ _____

The ancient city of Tikal is today located in the modern country of ______

In the Mesoamerican ball game the ball represented _________

The inca had no writing system but kept records using a system of knotted strings called _____

Built 8000 feat above sea level in the Andean mountains is the incas magnificent city _____ ____

Most of the Aztec population belonged to large kinship groups called _____

The Aztec capital was

______ ____ is especially noted for hundreds of sculptures of captured, tortured, and dead enemies.

The palace at palenque was built by the _____

The pyramid of the sun is closely associated with the _____ civilization

The spaniard responsible for the demise of the Aztec civilization was _______ ______

The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan empire was ______ ______

The _____ _____ was the universal sport of pre-Colombian Mesoamerica.

Architecture using huge blocks of irregular cut stones fitting together like a gigantic jigsaw puzzle and assembled without mortar could be found in the ______ enpire

As the guiding deity of the entire population _______ was the supreme Aztec god