Name the civilization
They made big colossal Stone heads
The Inca had traders and merchants in their society.
False, They had the Mita system where the leaders collect everything and distribute to the Inca people
The Maya had up to 40 cities in the Classic Age but all were independent
Positive: They traded with each other and developed trade routes between the cities
Negative: They fought over land
The Spanish had less advanced weapons than the civilizations in the Americas
They couldn't have conquered the Americas
Moctezuma II
Leader of the Aztecs during the Spanish conquest
The lived in the Andes region in south America
Inca
The Mayans copied some of the Olmec cultural aspects such as jaguars, building temples, and the use of Jade.
True
Having an oral language only like Quechua in the Inca civilization
Positive: They can communicate
Negative: They did not leave evidence in writing for us to analyze.
The Mayans did not build observatories.
They wouldn't have been advanced in astrology
A civilization
an organized society within a specific area.
They did human sacrifices
Aztecs
The Aztecs were monotheistic
False. They were Polytheistic
A civilization has a surplus of food.
Positive: The population grows and people are more satisfied. The civilization can develop and invent new things.
Negative: Overpopulation can lead to crowded societies, people might leave, and it can lead to the decline of the civilization
The Maya didn't invent calendars
They wouldn't have been able to plan their farming and harvesting seasons
Hernan Cortes
Led the Spanish to conquer the Aztecs
They invented 2 calendars
Maya
The Capital of the Aztecs was Cuzco
False, It was Tenochtitlan
The Inca had a rich variety of landforms and resources in their geographic location
positive: They were able to build a great civilization with a large population
Negative: The Spanish were interested to conquer their lands
The Olmecs did not trade
There would not have been cultural borrowing and none of the civilizations would have copied ideas from the Olmec
Francisco Pizzaro
Led the Spanish to conquer the Inca
They had a civil war between 2 leaders just before the Spanish attacked
Inca
The Inca did not record any information as their language was only oral
False. They recorded their information using Quipus (knotted cords)
living on a swampy island like the Aztecs
Positive: Access to water which can help in traveling and trade
Negative:- difficulty to go in and out of the city
- Little Farming land
Pizarro had accepted the gift offered to him by Atahualpa?
Maybe Atahualpa would have united the Inca and fought the Spanish Conquerors and succeeded in kicking them out of the Americas
Cultural borrowing
It allows for the exchange of cultural ideas between civilizations such as language, religion, customs.
it can happen by trading, traveling, or migration.