The capital city of the Maya. Its not where the monarch lived tho.
What is Tikal?
100
This is the capital city of the Toltec.
What is Tula?
100
The Aztec capital was at this location.
What is Tenochtitlan?
100
The capital city of the Inca.
What is Cuzco?
100
These were the two capitals of the Spanish Empire in the New World.
What are Lima and Mexico City?
200
This highly accurate piece of technology has everyone freaking out right now.
What is the Maya Calendar?
200
The Toltec civilization is believed to have been ended by this group of warring nomads.
What are the Chichimecas?
200
Aztec priests said they would know where to set up their capital because they would see an eagle land on a cactus. This sighting happened at this lake.
What is Lake Texcoco?
200
Inca raised these two types of animals for meat and wool.
What are alpacas and llamas?
200
The governments set up in the capital cities of the New World were referred to as these.
What are viceroyalties?
300
The Mayan Empire covered this many square miles in Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Western Honduras, El Salvador and Northern Belize.
What is 125,000?
300
A version of this modern day game was played by the Toltecs, but fortunately today, if you lose you don't get killed.
What is basketball?
300
Aztecs were perhaps one of the most violent civilizations. They performed this kind of sacrifice to satisfy their gods like Huitzilopochtli and Tonatiuh.
What is human sacrifice?
300
The most important god to them, known as the sun god.
What is Inti?
300
The Spanish came to the New World to spread this form of religion.
What is Catholicism?
400
Mayans used this as their money.
What is cacao beans?
400
Toltecs had a warrior aristocracy and divided their warriors into three groups. Two of those groups were the eagles and the coyote. This was the third.
What is jaguar?
400
The Aztec were also known by these two other names.
What are Mexica and Tenochca?
400
When the Spanish Conquistadors came to conquer the Inca, they were lead by this man.
Who is Pizzaro?
400
The three G's stand for this.
What is God, Gold and Glory?
500
Religion was very important to the Maya. Their kings were not only kings, but took on these other two roles as well.
What is warrior and priest?
500
The Aztecs later adopted this god as one of their own.
What is Quetzalcoatl?
500
Montezuma, the final Aztec ruler, did not prepare his empire for battle when Cortez arrived because they believed he was this god, returned in human form.
What is Quetzalcoatl?
500
Incas used a very specific style of farming known as this.
What is terraced farming?
500
This was the number one killer of the Mesoamericans after the Spanish arrived.