Geography of the Americas
The Mayas
The Aztecs
The Incas
Important People, places and gods
100
North America
What is the third largest continent?
100
Tikal
What is the name of the largest Mayan city?
100
Tenochtitlan
What is the name of the Aztecs capitol?
100
Gods and Goddeses
Where did the Incas believe they descended from?
100
Pachacuti of Inca
Who is the person that by legend began and organized the Inca empire?
200
Cordilleras
What is the name of the mountain range that run north and south through Central America?
200
Slash-and-burn farming
What is the Mayans method for farming?
200
Eagle with a snake in it's mouth, sitting on a cactus
What is the legend on how the Aztecs would find their promised homeland?
200
The dry Pacific coast, the hot humid eastern foothills of the Andes, and several highland plateaus surrounded by rugged mountains
What are the three different environments that the Inca empire had control of?
200
Yacatecuhtli
Who is the God of trade?
300
Tropical zone
What is the area that most of South America is located in?
300
More crowded than present day China
How crowded were the lands of the Mayans?
300
Mexica
What did the Aztecs call themselves?
300
Quechua
What is the language that the Incas spoke?
300
Mayapan
What is the the name of the Mayan capitol until 1450?
400
The Populating of the Americas
What is the land bridge responsible for causing?
400
About 3 million people
How many people speak the Mayan language?
400
Free Aztec women and men
Who is allowed to own land?
400
The Spanish
Who did the Incas lose their empire to?
400
Hernando Cortes
Who is believed to be quetzalcoatl?
500
Land Bridge
What is the piece of land uncovered by low water levels from the glaciers between eastern Russia and Alaska called?
500
Glyphs
What is the Mayans alphabet made of?
500
Spanish Conquistadors
What is the group that conquered the Aztecs empire called?
500
They have yet to stop
When Did the Inca traditions stop?
500
Berginia
What is the name of the area where the Bering land bridge is located?
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