Maya Civilization
This Maya city may have had over 100,000 people by A.D. 700.
What is Tikal?
The Aztec capital city built on an island in Lake Texcoco.
What is Tenochtitlan?
The capital city of the Inca Empire.
What is Cuzco?
The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
Who is Hernan Cortes?
People born in Spain who held the highest colonial positions.
Who were peninsulares?
The Maya writing system used these picture-like symbols.
What are Glyphs?
The alliance of three city-states that helped the Aztecs build their empire.
What is the Triple Alliance?
The Incan labor system required citizens to work for the state.
What is the mita system?
The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
People of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry were called this.
What are mestizos?
The Maya developed this important mathematical concept represented by a shell symbol.
What is zero?
The Aztec sun god who required human sacrifice.
Who is Huitzilopochtli?
This Incan ruler, known as “World Transformer,” greatly expanded the empire.
Who is Pachacuti?
This deadly disease devastated Indigenous populations during the conquests.
What is Smallpox?
This labor system forced Indigenous people to work for Spanish colonizers.
What is the encomienda system?
The Maya played ritual games in these special stone-walled areas.
What are ball courts?
This system forced conquered peoples to pay goods like gold, maize, and cacao to the Aztecs.
What is tribute?
The Inca used this knot-based system to keep records.
What is a quipu?
The “Sad Night” when the Spanish fled Tenochtitlan was called this.
What is Noche Triste?
This South American leader was known as “El Libertador.”
Who is Simon Bolivar?
Name two major causes of the Maya collapse.
What are warfare, drought, over-farming, deforestation, or population pressure?
According to legend, the Aztecs founded their city where they saw this sign.
What is an eagle on a cactus holding a snake?
This famous Incan mountain city was rediscovered by Hiram Bingham in 1912.
What is Machu Picchu?
This Incan emperor offered to fill a room with gold for his freedom.
Who is Atahualpa?
This revolution created the first Black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Haitian Revolution?