Unit 11 test review Mesoamerica

A scientist who studies human origins

• Archeologist

• Historian

• Explorer

• Anthropologist

a land bridge

• battlement

• causeway

• breezeway

• isthmus

floating garden island created by the Aztecs

• Limbo

• Chinampa

• Stickayo

• Siltoto

belief that everything has a spirit

• animism

• polytheism

• monotheism

• atheism

clergy of the Mayan religion

• priest

• monk

• imam

• ah kin

primary location for the Aztecs' religious rituals

• Templo Mayor

• Chechenia

• Great Pyramid

• Olmecon

spiritual animal guide in the Mayan religion

chief god of the Maya religion

• Ix Chel

• Itzamna

• Ixtab

• Namor

Match the following people

• Mayan ruler from AD 682-734

• Montezuma II

• Aztec emperor and warrior who expanded the Aztec Empire to include Mexico and Guatemala

• Hernando Cortes

• Spanish conquistador who attacked and destroyed the Aztec civilization

• Diego de Landa

• Spanish Priest who tried to force the Mayas to accept Roman Catholicism

• Jasaw Chan K'awiil II

a deep sinkhole filled with water that formed when water eroded limestone