Mayans
Aztecs
Incas
Explorers
Exploration Effects
100

What was the main staple of the Mayan Diet?

Maize

100

The Aztecs built their capital city on this Lake

Texcoco

100

What was the capital city of the Incan Empire?

Machu Pichu

100

This Chinese explorer led 7 expeditions with a giant fleet

Zheng He

100

Why did European explorers go exploring?

God, Glory, Gold

200

Who would be most important in Mayan society?

Priests

200

What was the name of the Mayan capital city?

Tenochtitlan

200

The Inca developed a type of farming on mountainsides called

Terrace farming

200

This English explorer found Australia and many other South Pacific islands, making tattoos popular among sailors

James Cook

200

According to mercantilism, the goal is to ______ more than ________

sell, buy

300

The Mayans used observatories to explore the...

Stars

300

Who was the Spanish conquistador that teamed with the Tlaxacans to defeat the Aztec?

Hernan Cortez

300

This vast network kept the Incan Empire connected

Roads

300

This explorer's crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe

Ferdinand Magellan

300

After the Europeans came to the Americas, many Natives died of

disease

400

What happened to the Mayan civilizations?

Nobody really knows for sure

400
What were the Aztec floating gardens called?

Chinampas

400

What Spanish conquistador wiped out Incan civilzation?

Francisco Pizzaro

400

This explorer "found" the Americas

Christopher Columbus

400

Exploration became easier with the invention of these two things

astrolabe and compass

500

The Mayans used this type of writing system

Heiroglyphs

500

The Aztecs lived in what is nowadays called

Mexico

500

The Incas lived in what is nowadays 

Peru

500

This French explorer explored Canada, there is a lake named after him

Samuel de Champlain

500

This was the slave trade portion of the Triangular Trade

Middle Passage

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