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Organization of the Maya people
The Maya empire
Upper
Class
Middle Class
Lower Class
Decline
In your own words, describe what is known about the END of the
Maya Empire.
Where was their
empire located?
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these answers and
More…
Name: _______________________________
Period: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Where were the Maya
located?
Remains of the Maya Empire
Counting
Use the Maya number chart found in the PowerPoint to compete the
questions below.
can be found on Mexico’s
•What year was Michael Jackson born? 1958
____
_______________
•What year were you born? _____
Peninsula, and in the
•How old are you? _____
countries of Guatemala,
______ ______________,
•What is your zip code? _____
Belize, & _____________.
•What is your address? _____
When did they exist?
•~__________BC was the beginning of their civilization.
•Between the years AD__________ and AD__________ the Maya
Pyramids and Temples
The Maya were skilled __________________ and
__________________. Can you name the pyramid found on the
front of this booklet? _____________________________
civilization reached its peak.
•The Maya civilization disappeared in __________AD.
Farming
•HUH? They disappeared during their peak. I wonder
The Maya used a very unique method of farming called
what happened?
_______________-and-_______________. Can you describe how
Hieroglyphics
you think this method was a beneficial farming technique?
•One of the greatest accomplishments of the Maya was the best
______________ _______________ in all of Latin America.
•They used ______________ to represent a ___________________
or _____________________.
Spanish Invasion
The Aztec Empire was invaded by the Spanish in ___________.
____________ _____________ captured the Aztec ruler,
The aztec empire
__________________ II and claimed the land for __________.
Where was their
empire located?
La Plaza de Las Tres Culruras
How did the Aztec
Empire end?
Who are these two men?
__________________ II was the final Aztec ruler.
Can you locate and name the 3
distinct cultures shown in this
picture?
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Name: _______________________________
Period: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Where were the Aztecs
located?
Skull Racks
Whose heads were on displayed on the skull racks?
The Aztec capital city was called
•Were they the skulls of executed ________ ________________?
____________________. It was built
•Or were they skulls of the winners of their ________________
on an island in the middle of Lake
_____________________?
_________________. This is where
Sports
modern day _______________ City
As a form of entertainment the Aztecs played a ball game inside of a
stands.
ball _____________. The object of the game was to get the ball into
When did they exist?
•The Aztecs settled on the shores of Lake Texcoco in the year AD
_____________.
•Their empire was at its most powerful from AD __________ to AD
__________.
•The Aztec Empire was destroyed in the year AD ___________.
Religion
The Aztecs worshipped many gods for many different
reasons.
•______________________ was the god of war.
•______________ was the god of rain and agriculture.
a ___________ that was mounted to the side of the wall of the court.
The _________________ team was then sacrificed to their gods –
this was considered a great ___________________.
Farming
The Aztecs created floating ______________, called
______________, to do their farming upon. They heaped fertile
___________ from the surrounding _____________ bottom to make
very useful land to farm on.
Writing
The Aztecs used picture writing or “______________” to tell stories
or to document _____________________.
•___________ ___________ was dedicated to these two gods.
•Describe two different reasons the Aztecs practiced human sacrifice:
Write the English word for each of the glyphs shown below:
Weaving
•Inca weavers used dies made from
The Inca empire
______________, ______________,
and _______________ to color their
wool.
•The Inca did not have a written
___________________ and used
weaving to tell stories and express
their _____________.
•The wool was made from the hair
of llamas and ________________.
Decline
•__________________
_________________ and his
Spanish army arrived in South
America in ______________.
•The death of the Inca ruler,
_____________________,
marked the end of the Inca
empire.
•Pizarro and his followers
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founded ___________ the new
capital of Peru.
Name: _______________________________
Period: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Where were the Inca located?
Farming
•The Ancient Inca were located in the
•Inca farmers cut _________________ into the hillside for
_______________ Mountains of Peru.
_______________ purposes.
•________________ was considered their
•They planted _______________ and other ___________
capital city.
___________________ that could resist the cold weather of the
•______________ ______________ was
mountains.
one of the most important cities in the
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empire. It was home to nearly __________
•In times of _____________, Inca farmers
people. It is also known as the Temple of
would tie up their ____________ without
the ____________.
any water. The gods would feel sorry for
When did they exist?
them and send water in the form of rain
•The Inca first settled sometime between AD ____________ and AD
(needed for the crops).
____________.
•The civilization was at its peak from about AD ____________ until
their end in AD ____________.
Quipu
•Quipu was bundled, knotted
_______________ used for
Stone Work
_________________ and
•The Inca are most famous for their ____________ _____________.
________________ purposes.
•They built __________ __________, ___________ ___________,
•The thread was spun from
and ___________ ___________.
______________ or ______________
•The roads of the Inca empire were used for ______________
hair.
_____________, _______________________, and _______________
•The Inca organized everything with
purposes.
quipu – from raising ____________, to
•There were over ________________ km of roads linking the vast
building ____________, to storing
territory of the Inca.
____________.