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A mountain in Argentina along the Andes.
What is Aconcagua?
Known for their usage of math and the number 0, created an efficient calendar round, very skilled in Astronomical predictions.
What are the Maya?
This was the only animal the Native Americans deemed worthy of use, unused to it but quickly adapting such animals into daily life.
What are Horses?
He, along with the rest of the conquistadors, conquered the Aztecs and Montezuma, taking it for Spain.
Who is Herman Cortes?
A person who studies the population of a country, usually by birth rate, death rate, and migration rate.
What is a Demographer?
An Indigenous group that lives in the Andean highlands.
Who is the Aymara?
According to their own legend, their ancestors had been told to wander until they happened upon an eagle perched upon a cactus growing out of a rock with a snake in its mouth.
Who are the Aztecs?
Having sailed the sea in a famous rhyme, he moved on to claim land in the name of Spain under order of Queen Isabella.
Who is Cristopher Columbus?
This king attempted to forge a friendship with Herman Cortes in an effort to avoid outright war.
Who is Montezuma?
One looks at how many children are being born while another looks at fertility as a whole, how many children being concived.
What is the difference between a fertility rate and birth rate?
The conqueror of the Incan Empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
Symbols carved into stone pillars, traditionally outside Mayan temples and placed in city centers detailing history.
What are Stelae?
Along with many beneficial plants and animals, the Europeans also brought with them many diseases, including this one which heavily impacted the Aztecs.
What is Smallpox?
The name bestowed upon the Aztecs by the Aztecs, AKA what they called themselves. This is where the name Mexico comes from.
Who are the Mexica?
A country has more people entering the country than leaving.
What is emigration?
A Roman Catholic priest who attempted to erase Mayan history through a mass burning of Mayan texts.
Who is Diego de Landa?
A staple of Olmec culture and scociety, thought to be representations of their gods; The most well known artifact today.
What are Stone Heads?
This name was given to children of Spanish heritage, only born in the new world.
Who are Creole?
This capital city was nearly impeachable before disease affected its population and Herman Cortez's unattended men wiped out the rest.
What is Tenochtitlan?
This is the most practiced religion in many Mesoamerican countries.
What is Roman Catholicism?
A group practice of communism where everyone is equal in power.
What are Egalitarian Societies?
Despite being the third of the Great Civilizations of Latin America, the Aztecs organized themselves more soundly, operating this way as opposed to city states like the Maya.
What is a Monarchy?
A staple in many European dishes that would not have made its way over without the help of the Atlantic crossing.
What are tomatoes?
The language of the Aztecs.
What is Nahuatl?
A triangle with the highest bar at the bottom and a gradual slope upwards to the oldest age.