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Religions in Review
Potpourri
100
The Aztec Empire was located on this continent, and the Inca Empire was located on this continent (100 pts each)
What is North America and South America?
100
This is the farming adaptation used by the Aztecs as a result of their swampy environment.
What are chinampas?
100
This is the term that describes the gifts received by the Aztecs, Inca, and Songhai from their neighboring civilizations.
What is tribute?
100
The Aztecs believe that they must feed human hearts to this god so that the world does not become dark forever.
What is the Sun God?
100
The term for this adaptation
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What is a chinampa?
200
The Songhai Empire and the city-states of Malindi, Mombasa, and Kilwa were located on this continent.
What is Africa?
200
This is the farming adaptation for the Inca as a result of their mountainous terrain.
What is terrace farming?
200
This is the system where an empire indirectly rules over another civilization and maintains power by demanding food, resources, labor, and precious metals from them.
What is the tributary system?
200
This is the polytheistic religion that believes nature is controlled by a higher power.
What is animism?
200
The term for this adaptation.
What is a terrace farm?
300
These are the geographic circumstances for the Inca Empire (multiple answers, 50 pts each)
What are they lived in South America, in the Andes Mountains, near a coastal desert, by the Amazon Rainforest, in a place with many earthquakes, with unpredictable rain, and availability of ichu grass.
300
This is the term that describes an adaptation used to transport water.
What is irrigation?
300
This is the main reason why Aztecs often engage in wars with neighboring civilizations.
What is to get humans for sacrifice to keep the sun rising in the sky?
300
Animism and Islam best fit into this type of institution.
What is social?
300
The term for this political institution.
What is a tributary system?
400
These are the geographic circumstances for the Aztec Empire (multiple answers, 50 pts each)
What are they lived in North America, Central America, in a valley, between two mountains (Sierra Madres), with dry winters, in a swampy area, on top of Lake Texcoco, with unpredictable rain.
400
This is the adaptation used by both the Aztecs and Inca that tracked the wet and dry season in response to unpredictable rain.
What are calendars?
400
These are the empires that used the tributary system (must name all 3 to get all of the points)
What are the Aztec Empire, Inca Empire, and Songhai Empire?
400
This is the term that describes the spread of Islam along trade routes to the Songhai Empire and the East African city-states.
What is cultural diffusion?
400
This person/job travels to other countries to create friendly relations and trade agreements.
What is a diplomat?
500
This is the geographic region of the Aztec Empire.
What is Central America?
500
This is an adaptation used by the Aztecs and Inca that is best described by the construction of bridges, roads, highways, canals, and aqueducts.
What is infrastructure?
500
The tributary system represents this type of institution.
What is political?
500
Islam improved trade in the Songhai Empire because merchants shared these.
What are a common language, common laws, knowing how to write?
500
This term describes a culture/country/empire that believes it is superior to others.
What is ethnocentrism?