Geography
The biggest river in South America.
What is the Amazon River?
The region on the Southeast side of Mexico.
This great ruler was believed to be a descendant of the sun god and has a civilization named after him.
What is the Inca?
The man who conquered the Aztecs and their land.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
The year Christopher Columbus discovered America.
What is 1492?
The boundary between North and South America.
What is the Isthmus of Panama?
The most important crop of the Mayans.
What is maize?
What is thatch?
The Aztec ruler of Mexico at the time of Cortes's conquest.
Who is Montezuma II?
The names of the Spanish monarchs who financed Columbus's expedition.
Who is Queen Isabel and King Fernando?
Name of the mountain range that stretches down the length of the Pacific side of South America.
What is the Andes?
The primary way the Mayans got their food.
What is farming?
What is Cuzco?
Spanish word meaning "conqueror."
What is a conquistador?
The name of the three ships that traveled to America with Columbus.
What are the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
The countries that the Equator passes through.
What is Ecuador, Columbia, and Brazil?
The beautiful figurines and ornaments of the Mayans were made out of this stone.
What is jade?
The famous Incan city whose ruins can still be seen in Peru today.
What is Machu Picchu?
The god that the Aztec King thought Cortes was.
Who is Quetzalcoatl?
The explorer who explored the northern coast of South America and whose name is the reason we can this land "America".
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
The two major mountain ranges in Mexico.
What is the Madre Occidental and the Seirra Madre Oriental?
Who were Mayan priests?
What is gold?
The name for the sorrowful night when Cortes left the city with his men and many were killed in the retreat by the Aztecs.
The explorer who discovered the Pacific Ocean and concluded this land must be a New World and not Asia.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?