U3- Ancient Civilizations

What does the term "mesoamerican" mean?

• Middle Passage
• Middle America, between North and South America
• Middle America, including states like Texas and Oklahoma
• Messy America

What is a 'city-state?'

• A city within a state

• Your address

• The government of Greece

• A city that acts like a small country

A method of digging channels to bring water to crops

• Slash-and-burn
• Terraces
• Irrigation
• Temple

An area that includes what is today southern Mexico and the western part of Central America

• City-State
• Mesoamerica
• Temple
• Pok-A-Tok

What is a city-state?

• an artificial field of mud and vegetation used to produce crops

• the building where a bureaucrat works

• the great pyramid that stood at the center of the city

• a city with its surrounding territory that forms an independent state

Polytheistic means....

• Belief in more than one god

• Belief in only one god

• Not believing in god

The Maya developed a 365-day ___________________

• map

• book

• calendar

Math system, calendar, stela, slash and burn agriculture, astronomy

• Maya

• Inca

• Aztec

Ball game called Pok Ta Pok

• Maya

• Aztec

• Inca

Vast amount of gold and silver

• Maya

• Aztec

• Inca