Maya
Inca
Aztec
Geography
Vocabulary
100
What is The type of government in Mayan culture ?
What is a hereditary absolute monarchy which ruled over the empire but had many city states, some of which were ruled independently.
100
a city built by the Inca, and serves as the finest example of Incan architecture
What is Machu Picchu?
100
why the Aztec initially accepted the Spanish
What is they took the cross on the Spaniards’ breastplates to be the sign that the God Quetzalcoatl was returning?
100
The continent on which the Inca empire stood?
What is South America?
100
writing system based on pictures
What are hieroglyphs?
200
What was one Mayan calendar based on?
a 365 day year
200
A system built to enable the military and messengers to travel quickly throughout the Incan empire.
What are roads?
200
The Aztec kingdom was composed of
What is a collection of semi-independent territories (city-states)?
200
The region where the Maya and Aztec civilizations were located.
What is Mesoamerica?
200
The central courtyard around which other buildings were built in Mayan and Aztec cities.
What is a plaza?
300
What is what rulers of the Mayan city-states claimed to be?
to be descended from gods
300
Farmland cut out of the side of a mountain.
What is terracing?
300
to delay the final destruction of the world
What is why the Aztec practiced human sacrifice?
300
Olmec
What is the oldest known Mesoamerican civilization?
300
To pay a tax to a ruler.
What is a tribute?
400
The Mayans created a sophisticated writing system based on hieroglyphs what happened to all their writings?
What is Spanish conquerors made no effort to decipher, deciding instead to burn Mayan books
400
The single ruler in charge of the Inca and the territories they conquered.
What is the emperor?
400
the belief which Aztec religion was based on ?
What is a belief in a struggle between good and evil
400
The mountain range where the Inca lived?
What is the Andes mountain range?
400
One of the factors that contributed to the downfall of both the Inca and the Aztec empires was their
What is lack of a natural immunity to diseases that the Spanish brought with them from Europe?
500
How did the Mayans honor the gods?
What is through Human Sacrifice
500
Since the Inca lacked a writing system, how did they keep records?
What is kept records using a system of knotted strings called the quipu.?
500
The Spanish explorer who destroyed the Aztec civilization.
Who is Cortes?
500
The name of the geographical feature where the Myans lived?
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
500
After conquering the Incan capital of Cuzco, he established a new capital at Lima.
Who is Pizarro?
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