Aztec
This is geographic location/area where the Aztec lived.
What is Central Mexico?
This is geographic area/location where the Inca lived.
What is South America/present day Peru, Chile, Equador?
This is the geographic location/area the Maya lived.
What is Central America (Yucatan Peninsula, Belize, Honduras)
The three civilizations were known for this religious practice of worshipping many gods.
What is polytheism?
It is one theory of how people first migrated to the Americas
What is Beringian Theory or the Bering Land Bridge?
This was the capital of the Aztec civilization.
What is Tenochtitlan?
Instead of money, taxes in the Inca civilization were paid with this.
What is labor?
The Mayan Civilization was divided into these: independent, localized kingdoms ruled by divine kings (ajaw).
What are city-states?
A record-keeping system using knotted strings
What is quipu?
This civilization, known for leaving behind giant stone heads, was a mother culture of the Mesoamerican civilizations.
Who are the Olmec?
This agricultural achievement of the Aztecs involved creating farmable floating "land" on lakes.
What are chinampas?
The Inca are known for this system that spanned nearly 25,000 miles.
What is a system of roads and suspension bridges?
These are three major goals of the Spanish conquistadors that arrived in the Americas.
Gold, God, and Glory
This is a formal name for a Spanish explorer, many of whom overtook indigenous civilizations
What is a conquistador?
This is how the Aztec empire fell.
What is the arrival of Hernan Cortez, capturing Moctezuma II, allying with local groups, taking over Tenochtitlan. The Spanish also spread disease.
This is how the Maya empire ended.
What is the Maya disappeared. Their record-keeping stopped, they abandoned their cities impacted by drought, famine, and disease.
This civilization was most feared for it warfare and harsh treatment of those they conquered.
Who are the Aztecs?
Name which civilization(s) practiced human sacrifice
Aztec, Inca, and Mayans
This was a military coalition between Tenochtitlan, Texococo, and Tlacopan.
What is the Triple Alliance?
Name three contributions of the Inca Empire.
What are suspension bridges, 25,000 miles of road, terrace farming, sundials, quipu, Cuzco, gold art, Machu Picchu
Name two major achievements of the Mayans.
creation of a 365 day calendar, use of over 30 languages, observations of stars and planetary motion, use of codices
This civilization would best be described as the Engineers in the Americas.
Who are the Inca?
These are TWO things all three civilizations have in common
What are: polytheism, susceptibility to new diseases (no immunity), complex communication systems, some version of a calendar, built pyramids, versions of various games