Geography
Due to the rugged terrain of these mountains in South America, cities were often built on mountain tops.
What are Andes?
The "Lost City" of the Inca civilization.
What is Machu Picchu?
During the 1500's most of the societies in Mesoamerica were conquered by explorers from which country?
What is Spain?
This Aztec city was one of the most powerful cities in Mesoamerica.
What is Tenochititlan?
The Inca used these to connect their empire through the mountains.
What are roads and bridges?
This is the main crop of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca people.
What is Maize?
Which of the three civilizations was not in the direct Mesoamerica area?
What is Inca?
A type of farming that the Inca used to grow crops such as potatoes and quinoa.
What is terrace farming?
People who are native to the land.
What is indigenous?
The Maya civilization was located on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and extended south into what is the present-day country?
What is Guatemala?
An object made of strings and knots that the Inca used for communication.
What is a quipu?
These were the earliest of the Mesoamerican groups who created a culture that influenced powerful civilizations later on.
Who are the Zapotec people?
This group started their civilization on an island in Lake Texcoco.
Who are the Aztecs?
The Inca were able to maintain a strong government and complex society by collecting these?
What are taxes?
How did the Aztecs use alliances to build their empire?
What is they were formed in order to help conquer other cities.
The historic region in Central America that was home to many advanced civilizations.
What is Mesoamerica?