The Inca
These structures helped to keep the expansive Incan empire connected.
Roads (or the Royal Road)
The capital of the Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlán, became what modern-day city?
Mexico City
Name three crops commonly cultivated by the Maya.
Corn, beans, squash, cacao, tomatoes, cotton, vanilla...
The _______ Ocean is located to the west of South America and the east of Asia.
Pacific
Scientists who hunt for evidence buried in the ground.
Archaeologists
Inti was a powerful figure in the Incan belief system. What was Inti the god of?
The Sun
The Sun God told the Aztec people to build their city where they saw this type of bird perched on a cactus.
Eagle
The Maya used two calendars. One was called the “Sacred Round.” Was the second a lunar calendar or a solar calendar?
Solar
This geographic region consists of seven countries: Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
Central America
A writing system that uses pictures and symbols instead of letters and words.
Hieroglyphs
What is the name of the farming technique used by the Inca (similar to the swales in our Forest Garden at NCS!)
Terrace Farming
This English word comes from the Nahuatl word “xocolatl” which translates to “bitter water.”
Chocolate
The Maya lived throughout parts of present-day Central America, including this peninsula.
Yucatán Peninsula
This mountain range stretches for 5,500 miles along the western coast of South America.
Andes Mountains
Relating to or determined by the sun (might be a type of calendar or eclipse…)
Solar
What was the capital of the Incan empire? (today, a major city in Peru)
Cusco
The Aztec believed they were living under the 5th sun. Name a way that the world ended under one of the four previous suns.
Jaguars, a great wind, fire, and flood
Name two possible reasons for the disappearance of the Maya civilization.
Internal conflict/warfare, environmental degradation (drought, floods, agricultural crisis), disease, overpopulation, disruption of trade routes...
A ________ is a large, flat area of land that is raised above the surrounding land and surrounded by steep sides.
Plateau
___________ is the process of using math and science to create, build, and solve problems with structures, products, and systems.
Engineering
What was a 'quipu' used for?
The Inca tied knots on a quipu to keep track of important information and records because they didn't have a written language.
What was the name of the emperor who ruled the Aztec Empire at the time of European contact?
Moctezuma (II)
In the Mayan number system, a bar ( — ) represents what number?
5
How many feet above sea level is Machu Picchu built? (give or take 1,000 feet)
7,972 ft
A piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water.
Peninsula