Mayas
Aztecs
Incas
North American Native Americans
Misc.
100
Method of organizing days created by the Mayas.
What is a calendar?
100
Aztecs were known for being very violent, or this.
What is warlike?
100
Farming technique used by the Incas in which they supplied dry land with water by means of ditches
What is irrigation?
100
The animal that many North American tribes based their lifestyle around.
What is the buffalo?
100
The time period between the late 1490s and early 1600s when many people were travelling to and exploring the new world is known as THIS.
What is The Age of Exploration/Discovery?
200
Room that Mayas built to look at and study stars.
What is an observatory?
200
Conquistador that defeated the Aztecs.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
200
Conquistador that defeated the Incas.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
200
A group of 5 allied Native American tribes.
What is the Iroquois League?
200
The word that means "gold coin," which was used as currency.
What is a ducat?
300
Geographic region were Maya culture was located.
What is Central America?
300
Current country where Aztec Empire was located.
What is Mexico?
300
Current country where Incan Empire was located.
What is Peru?
300
Native American tribes that lived in adobe houses built on top of each other.
What are the Pueblo Indians?
300
People that led bland, difficult lives and worked for lords of the manor
What are serfs?
400
European ailments that killed off many Mayas (along with Aztecs and Incas).
What is smallpox, or influenza?
400
Number of Aztecs before European arrival, and number of Aztecs after being defeated.
What is 25 million and 1/2 million?
400
Number of men that defeated the Incan empire.
What is 180? (or under 200)
400
The lifestyles of most North American tribes can be described like this
What is hunter/gatherer (travelled)? (some were farmers)
400
Reason why early maps of America are incredibly inaccurate.
What is: because the American continent had not been fully explored yet, so the explorers' perceptions of what the land looked like was wrong?
500
Two architectural structures that Mayas are well-known for.
What are temples and pyramids?
500
Weapons that Aztecs (and other Native tribes) used in battle.
What are wooden swords, bows and arrows, bronze weapons?
500
Europeans saw Natives as less civilized than them, so they were most surprised by how well-organized the Incas were with regards to this.
What is their government?
500
Name one crop that North American tribes that lived as farmers may have grown.
What are beans, corn, or squash?
500
This city was known as the "street corner of Europe" because it was an important spot for trade.
What is Lisbon, Portugal?
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