Inca
Chavin
Aztecs
Maya
Vocabulary
100

The continent that this ancient civilization was appart of.

What is South America?

100

The continent that this ancient civilization was apart of.

What is South America?

100

The continent that the Aztecs resided in.

What is North America?

100

The continent that the Mayas resided in.

What is North America?

100

The region that extends form Mexico all the way down to Costa Rica.

What is Mesoamerica?

200

The current-day country that this ancient civilization resided in.

What is Peru?

200

The country where the Chavin people used to reside.

What is Peru?

200

The current day country that this empire was apart of.

What is Mexico?

200

The three main countries that the Maya were located in.

What are Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize

200

People that came from Spain to take control over countries in the Americas

What are conquistadors?

300

The main two crops grown in this region.

What are Maize and Potatoes.

300

The large body of water on the coast of the Chavin.

What is the Pacific Ocean?

300

What the priests were looking for while moving.

What is the eagle on a cactus eating a snake?

300

The European country that eventual conquered the Mayas.

What is Spain?
300
The type of corn that grew in the Americas.

What is Maize?

400

The 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire.

What is Machu Pichu?
400

The largest and most powerful city in the Chavin Empire.

What is Chavín de Huántar?

400

The artificial islands used for agricultural purposes by the Aztecs.

What are chinampas?

400

The main/capital city of this ancient civilization.

What is Chichen Itza?

400

Recording devices fashioned from strings historically used by a number of cultures in the central Andes Mountains of South America.

What are Quipus?

500

The destroyer of Incan civilization.

Who is the conquistador Francisco Pizarro?


500

The two main reasons that the Chavin civilization ended.

What are earthquakes and drought?

500

The Aztec god of war

Who is Huitzilopochtli?

500

The language that the Mayas would write in.

What are Mayan Glyphs?

500

A type of book used by Mesoamericas for recording important historical events.

What is a Codex?

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