Maya
Aztec
Inca
Spain & Portugal
Explorers
100
What were the present-day areas of Mexico and Central America called before the age of discovery?
What is Mesoamerica?
100
Where were the Aztecs located?
What is the valley of Mexico (present day Mexico City)?
100
What present day country were the Inca primarily located in?
What is the mountains of Peru?
100
Who sent Columbus on his first voyage?
Who were King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
100
Which Portuguese explorer discovered an all-water route from Europe to India by sailing around the Southern tip of Africa?
Who was Vasco da Gama?
200
What connected Asia to the Americas during the end of the last Ice Age?
What is a land-bridge?
200
What practice did the Aztecs believe was necessary for the Sun to rise each day?
What is human sacrifice?
200
What did the Inca build in order to distribute goods throughout the Empire?
What is a series of roads?
200
What did Columbus believe he discovered when he arrived at the New World?
What were the East Indies?
200
Which Portuguese explorer is credited with leading the first expedition to circumnavigate (sail around) the Globe?
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
300
Where was the Mayan civilization located?
What is present day southern Mexico and Guatamala?
300
What technology did the Aztecs create in order to grow crops in their unique environment?
What are "floating gardens" or Chinampas?
300
What technology did the Inca develop to help them keep financial records?
What was the Quipu?
300
What name is given to the exchange of products and ideas between the old world and the new world?
What is "the Columbian Exchange"
300
What were the Spanish explorers called?
What were Conquistadors?
400
Most Maya did what as a profession?
What were peasant farming?
400
How did the Aztecs acquire their sacrificial victims?
What is tribal warfare?
400
What mountain range did the Incas dominate?
What are the Andes?
400
What was the name given to the expulsion of Jews and Muslims from Spain in 1492?
What was the "reconquista"?
400
Which explorer "conquered" Mexico?
Who was Fernando Cortez?
500
What type of sport did the Maya invent that can still be seen in a similar form today?
What is Basketball?
500
Which deity was at the top of the Aztec religion?
What is the "Sun God?"
500
What well-preserved mountain city had buildings with stones that fit so tightly together they did not need cement or plaster?
What is Machu Picchu?
500
Where did Christopher Columbus hail from?
What is Genoa, Italy?
500
Which explorer is credited with conquering the Incas?
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
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