mesopotamia part 2
Cards (58)
- Uses sun and sky, 2 complicated calendar systems (planning activities, religious rituals and cultural celebrations)
- Sun stone calendar for planning activities, rituals and planting season
- Calendar - solar calendar and lunar calendar
- The milpa cycle is still being placticed by a handful of traditional farmers today.
- chinampa, most productive agriculture ever
- terraces
- Mesoamerican serpent deity
- one of the most recognizable mesoamerican pyramids
- the number of days in Maya solar calendar
- spoken language of Aztec
- writing system of aztec
- the teacher in inca are called
- 1500 B.C.E. – 16th century arrival of the Spanish conquistadors
- Mesoamerican serpent deity
- the number of days in the Maya solar year
- Each of the El Castillo's four sides has a staircase of _ steps
- One of the first people to produce rubber products
- They were skilled in mathematics and created a number system based on the numeral 20
- their engineers developed structural mechanics for multi-story buildings
- Invented the blast furnace
- Currency – greenstone beads, cacao beans, and copper bells
- Only noble families were allowed to go to school so commoner children
- invented of one of the earliest known writing systems on earth
- Human sacrifice
- 15th and early 16th century
- Chinampas
- artificial islands
- most valuable fertilizer used on the chinampas was _
- a breed of dog raised for human consumption
- Invented canoe
- Tonatiuh
- a ball game played with a rubber ball that could be propelled only using the hips.
- foods preserved by salting or drying in the sun