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Study Guide for Mesoamerica: Covers all material. Use your book or notes as a guide to fill in the
answers!
Were the Aztecs a warring people? How do you
know?________________________________________________________________________________
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Where were the Incan, Aztec and Mayan Empires located generally and
specifically?___________________________________________________________________________
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What was the Mayan social structure like? Tell me one thing each class
did.__________________________________________________________________________________
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What was the Incan social structure like? Tell me one thing each class
did.__________________________________________________________________________________
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What was the Aztec social structure like? Tell me one thing each class
did.__________________________________________________________________________________
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Why did the Aztec’s erase part of their history after they battled as mercenaries for surrounding
countries?____________________________________________________________________________
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The creation of the calendar and great buildings by the Mayans can tell us what about their
civilization?___________________________________________________________________________
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What did the Aztec think the gods ate? What did they do to feed
them?________________________________________________________________________________
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How did the Incans send messages to the people living in other parts of their
civilizations?___________________________________________________________________________
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What was the main food the Aztec people
ate?________________________________________________
List the types of Agricultural techniques each peoples used as well as how they worked:
Mayan
Aztec
Incan
Who were the Olmec? Who did they greatly
influence?____________________________________________________________________________
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Tell me about each tribes writing system. Did they use pictures, letters etc.
Mayan
Aztec
Incan
Why did the Aztec build their city in the middle of lake Texcoco? What benefit did they have by living in
the middle of a
lake?_________________________________________________________________________________
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The Maya were very good at math. What were some of their mathematic achievements?
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What was marriage like for the Aztecs? Could people divorce? What about the
Inca?_________________________________________________________________________________
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What is an ayllu? What could you compare it to in the modern
day?_________________________________________________________________________________
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The Aztecs were a society based on tribute. What is tribute and how did it
work?________________________________________________________________________________
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Describe what it would have been like to live in Tenochtitlan? You must give five
examples._____________________________________________________________________________
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Extra stuff you think you should
know?________________________________________________________________________________
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