1. What word do we use for the lands that today we call Southern Mexico and Central America? 2. The two main geographic areas in these lands are highlands (mountains) and lowlands. Which of these have rainforests?

3. The three main crops grown throughout the Americas were squash, beans, and what?

4. Since the jungles were packed with plants they cleared space to grow crops by using what method?

5. On the hills and mountains the lands were not flat enough for farming. So they cut step-like shapes into the mountains which we call what? see p. 155 for the definition and word, and p. 183 for a photo

6. p. 150 What crop was so rare it was sometimes used as money for trading?

7. p. 152 The Olmec who lived before the Maya created a highly developed civilization whose ideas many other Mesoamerican civilizations copied. Which of these was NOT one of these ideas? Stone pyramids, art, wheeled carts, farming.

8. p. 156-7 The Maya became successful farmers which allowed many people to do other jobs. In each city-state there were four classes of people with the king at the top. Which people from the second class made decisions about when to plant and harvest crops using their knowledge of astronomy and calendars?

9. Which people designed the buildings and made pottery?

10. Other than farming in the hot sun all day, what other work did farmers do?

11. p.158 Most Maya lived in farm lands surrounding a central stone city where the upper classes lived. These city-states were separate kingdoms with a king's palace, stone pyramids, temples and what else?

12. p.157 Which of these was NOT one of the Maya gods: maize, sun, rain, ocean, fire, war

13. p. 157 The ball in the ballgame represented the sun which had to be kept moving up in the sky for people to survive. What did the Maya believe the gods needed to nourish them to keep strong?

14. p. 370 When the Spanish came to the Americas in the 1500's they brought with them new foods and other things. They took back foods that had only been grown in the Americas. Most of these were different types of crops but there was one type of animal they also took back which was what?

a. terraces
b. turkeys
c. art
d. ballcourt
e. maize/corn
f. priests
g. lowlands
h. craftsmen
i. pigs
j. blood
k. chickens
l. Mesoamerica
m. cacao beans
n. slash-and-burn
o. rain
p. built pyramids
q. ocean
r. wheeled carts
s. cattle
t. fire