| A | B |
|---|
| Mayan civilization | 200-900AD |
| cross-eyed people were special | a Mayan belief |
| Mayan belief that people could bring messages from god | if they survived human sacrifice |
| Mayan name for book | codex |
| Mayan form of writing | glyph |
| throwing victims down a well | example of Mayan human sacrifice |
| Mayan capital | Tikal |
| Mayan name for raised roads | causeways |
| Inca mecine | quinine |
| Inca food sources | potatoes and 20 varieties of corn |
| Incan bridge | chacas |
| Inca capital | Cuzco |
| Inca magical belief | divining |
| Inca's conqueror | Pizarro |
| Inca supreme ruler's name | Inca |
| Incan name for rest houses | tampus |
| used by Incas for farming | terraces |
| Manco Capac | founded the city of Cuzco |
| reason we know little about the Inca civilization | Spanish burned their books; they thought they were evil |
| Inca's name for rest houses | tampus |
| Aztec special treat made from cacao bean | chocolate |
| name for Aztec family group | calpolli |
| last Aztec emperor defeated by Cortes | Montezuma |
| chunu | freeze-dried potatoes |
| Teotihucan | Aztec word meaning "place of the gods" |
| polytheism | a belief in many gods |
| culture | the way of life; how a society organizes in terms of beliefs and values |
| Halach Uinic | believed to be a living god |
| pictographs | symbols used for writing |
| chichen itza | contains the Well of Sacrifice |
| Lake Texcoco | the Aztecs built their capital on an island in the middle of it |
| floating gardens | Aztec's creation |
