Download Jeopardy Review Game: Early Indian Civilizations

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A culture that has developed
systems of government,
religion, and learning.
What is a civilization?
(9-1 key vocabulary)
They served as tombs
and temples.
(9-1 key vocabulary)
What are pyramids?
They were used to record
important events and to keep track
of time on calendars.
What are hieroglyphics?
(9-1 key vocabulary)
From about 500 B.C.
to about A.D. 900
When was the Mayan Civilization
at its peak?
(9-1 important dates)
The top had priests and nobles.
The middle had traders and
craftsmen.
The base had slaves and farmers.
What was the Mayan
social pyramid like?
(9-1 Mayan life)
It means to focus on doing
particular types of work such as
building, weaving, painting,
and engineering.
What does it mean to specialize?
(9-2 key vocabulary)
It is a group of lands and people
under the control of one government.
What is an empire?
(9-2 key vocabulary)
They were important because
they allowed the Aztecs to increase
their farmland.
Why were chinampas important?
(9-2 key vocabulary)
This was a kind of tax
(food, clothing, precious stones)
that conquered people
were forced to pay the Aztecs.
What was a tribute
in the Aztec society?
(9-2 key vocabulary)
These people decided when
sacrifices should be made and when
and where cities should be built.
Who were Mayan priests?
The Incas used this system of
watering dry land by means of
streams and canals.
What is irrigation?
(9-3 key vocabulary)
According to Incan legend,
this ruler was so powerful because
he descended from the sun god, Inti.
Why was the Incan emperor so
powerful?
(9-3 key vocabulary)
These raised, level fields are
similar to steps, and provided the
Inca with more farm land in a
rugged area.
What are terraces?
(9-3 key vocabulary)
The Incas did this to
communicate with different parts
of their empire.
Why did the Incas build roads and
place runners, or messengers, along
them?
(9-3 Incan life)
They made all decisions about how
much each person should pay in
taxes, what each farmer should plant
and they distributed food, clothing,
and cooking utensils,.
What did the local government
officials do to control the Incan
people?
(9-3 Incan government)
This is a key event or series of
events that significantly changes the
way of life for a group of people.
What is a turning point?
(9-1 key vocabulary)
This allowed the Mayan civilization
to develop.
They could make pottery, weave
cloth, study the stars,
and build cities.
How did growing enough maize
(corn) affect the Mayas?
These actions led conquered Indian
groups to help European invaders
overcome the Aztecs.
How did the Aztecs’ warfare and
treatment of their neighbors
affect them?
This event in 1526 left the Incan
empire greatly weakened and
unable to defend itself.
What was the war between the
Incan emperor’s sons?
This European country conquered
the early Indian civilizations.
What is Spain?
Copán and Tikal are two cities they
built.
What are two cities built by the
Mayas?
Cuzco is the capital city.
What was the capital city of the
Incan empire?
This Incan city of spectacular
stone buildings was built high in
the Andes Mountains.
What is Machu Picchu?
This empire was located in what is
now central and southern Mexico.
What is the Aztec empire?
This was where the gods told the
Aztecs to build their island city.
It’s name means “the Place
of the Prickly Pear Cactus.”
What was Tenochtitlán?