Exam 13: Mesoamerica, the Classic Maya, and the Aztec Empire

What kinds of materials and objects are Maya glyphs preserved on?

__________________ were staples of the Mesoamerican diet.

In Mesoamerican archaeology, a tree bark record of Maya glyphs is called a dendroglyph.

The Late Preclassic period center Kaminaljuyú controlled sources of ___________________.

Zapotec was a state-level politically complex society that emerged in the Valley of Oaxaca about 20 cal BC.

What evidence suggests a shift from communal to private ownership of food resources in the Formative period?

Chichén Itzá was a Terminal Classic period city in _____________________.

Maya glyphs that represent words are ______________ and those that represent sounds are _____________.

Developments in the ____________________ were not discussed as part of Mesoamerica in this chapter.

Tlatilco was a site in the Basin of Mexico.

_______________ was destroyed by a volcanic eruption around AD 400.

The Maya were the first group to develop a unique symbol for the number zero.

Archaeologists place the end of the Maya Classic period at about AD _________.

A key part of the Classic Maya agricultural base was millet.

What were two uses of the cacao bean in ancient Mesoamerica?

What types of archaeological evidence demonstrate social stratification in the Classic Maya period?

According to the Maya long-count calendar, the 12th bak'tun ended in _______________.

The central figures of the Maya creation myth are _______________.

At their peak of political complexity, the Aztecs are referred to as the Aztec ____________.

Maya dynastic rulers claimed the title of ______________.