Mayan
The Maya lived mainly in this region (today’s Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador).
Yucatan Peninsula
This is the Capital City of the Aztec Empire
Tenochitlan
The Inca lived in this mountain range. It forms a sort of Spine along the South American Continent
The Andes Mountains
Hernán Cortés conquered this empire.
The Aztecs
According to the Incas, their civilization formed around this lake.
Lake Titicaca
The Maya believed their gods needed this type of sacrifice to stay strong.
Human or Blood Sacrafice
This crop, also called maize, was the Aztecs’ most important food.
CORN
Instead of money, the Incas used this labor system where people worked for the empire and families would rotate labor duties. The products would be distributed amongst the people.
Mit'a
Francisco Pizarro conquered this empire.
The Inca
This is the name of the floating Gardens that Aztecs would use to grow food in Tenochitlan
Chinampas
The Maya never formed one united empire but instead were divided into these. C_ _ _-S_ _ _ _ _
City-States
These were huge structures where sacrifices would take place to please the Gods.
Pyramids
The Inca built thousands of miles of these to connect their empire.
Roads. Messenger Runners would use these and trade off to the next after a certain amount of miles.
The fall of the Aztec and Inca Empires led to the rise of this European empire in the Americas.
The Spanish Empire
This city in the Andes is one of the most famous Inca ruins today. This was found on the top of a mountain in the Andes.
Machu Picchu
The Maya were eventually conquered by this European power.
Spain
This Aztec Emperor was captured by Cortes, put on house arrest by him, had all his gold stolen, and then was killed. It is not known if it was the Spanish or The Aztec that killed him.
Montezuma
This was the Capital of the Incan Empire
Cusco
The Spanish carried these weapons, which gave them a military advantage. Two Answers, both must be right.
STEEL Swords and Firearms
Spanish success was partly due to bringing these animals, which the natives had never seen.
Horses
This is the name of the Civilization who demanded tribute from various Mayan tribes.
Aztecs
The Aztecs believed this god would return, which some thought explained the arrival of the Spanish.
Quetzalcoatl (kukulkan)
This was the name of the Leader of the Incans when the Spanish overthrew them. He was held for Ransom, paid the Ransom.....then killed anyways by the Spanish.
Atahualpa
European diseases like this one killed millions of Indigenous people.
Small Pox
The Mayan ballgame pok-ta-pok sometimes ended with this outcome.
Human Sacrafice