Name:__________________________________Date:________________________Per_________ 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?________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Where were the Incan, Aztec and Mayan Empires located generally and specifically?___________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ What was the Mayan social structure like? Tell me one thing each class did.__________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ What was the Incan social structure like? Tell me one thing each class did.__________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ What was the Aztec social structure like? Tell me one thing each class did.__________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Why did the Aztec’s erase part of their history after they battled as mercenaries for surrounding countries?____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ The creation of the calendar and great buildings by the Mayans can tell us what about their civilization?___________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ What did the Aztec think the gods ate? What did they do to feed them?________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ How did the Incans send messages to the people living in other parts of their civilizations?___________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 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?____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 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?_________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ The Maya were very good at math. What were some of their mathematic achievements? _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ What was marriage like for the Aztecs? Could people divorce? What about the Inca?_________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ What is an ayllu? What could you compare it to in the modern day?_________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ The Aztecs were a society based on tribute. What is tribute and how did it work?________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Describe what it would have been like to live in Tenochtitlan? You must give five examples._____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Extra stuff you think you should know?________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________