Aztec and Inca Society
Most POWs captured in Aztec conquests were destined for this fate.
What is to be sacrificed?
These are the capital cities of the Aztec and Inca empires, respectively.
What are Tenochtitlan and Cusco?
Potatoes were the staple crop of this empire?
Who are the Inca?
DAILY DOUBLE: Kunkle is this years old.
What is 33?
This established the eastern boundary of the Inca Empire.
What are the Andes Mts. ?
This was the largest empire in the Pre-Columbian Americas.
What is the Inca Empire?
The Aztecs, a semi-nomadic group, from northern Mexico established a city-state in the middle of Lake Texcoco were also known as this people.
Who are the Mexica?
Maize, or corn, was the staple crop of this empire.
Who are the Aztec?
This sacrifice of the gods when creating the world and mankind was seen as justification for the large amount of human sacrifice practiced by the Aztec Empire.
What is their blood?
Every Aztec settlement contained this, which serves as evidence of their advanced economies.
What is a large marketplace with weekly market days?
The Aztec and Inca worshipped a pantheon of many gods and goddesses, which made them this.
What is polytheistic?
This empire divided their vast holdings into 80 provinces with a governor who appointed local officials to manage increasingly smaller units of people.
What is the Inca Empire?
Also, known as chinampas, the Aztecs supported their growing population by creating artificial fields known as this on the top of lakes to increase agricultural production.
What are "floating gardens"?
Young Inca girls who were taken from home and taught to brew corn beer and weave cloth for the state and later married the nobility or served as priestesses were known as this.
What are "chosen women" or "wives of the Sun"?
Elite Aztec merchants who specialized in the sale of luxury goods including slaves and became wealthier than many of the nobility.
Who are the pochteca?
The system in which men and women had separate spheres but neither was viewed as inferior to the other was known as this.
What was "gender parallelism"?
The Aztecs ruled over conquered people and required them to send specified quantities of textiles, jewelry, foodstuffs, rubber balls, and more in a system known as this.
What is the tribute system?
This empire preserved food by storing it in storehouses located in the Andes mountains.
Who are the Inca?
The Inca god of the sun.
Who is Inti?
The Inca demanded labor from all of its subjects such as working on large state "sun farms," manufacturing, construction, etc. in this system of coerced labor.
What is mita?
The Inca recorded numerical data such as population, food storage, births, and deaths on these.
What are quipus?
The Inca forced some conquered people to assimilate by making their sons move to their capital and adopt Inca customs including learning this official language of the empire.
What is Quechua?
The Inca built this huge structure containing over 200 buildings deep in the Andes mountains.
What is Machu Picchu?
The Aztec god of the sun and war.
Who is Huitzilopochtli?
DAILY DOUBLE: This is Kunkle's dog's name.
What is Lady?