The Maya was considered decentralized which means, like the Greeks, they didn't have a country, but...
City-states
Region where the Inca empire is located
Andes region (Peru and/or Chilie)
The period between roughly 700 AD - 1492 in Iberia where the Spanish Kingdoms invaded and took over the entire area from the Moorish Caliphates.
Reconquista
Tenochtitlan
The people who inhabited the island before the Spanish arrived
Arawak
System of writing that they had that was similar to the Egyptians
Hieroglyphic writing
Animal central to the Inca empire
Llama (or Alpaca)
Revered figure by the Spanish who is said to destroy their Moorish enemies. They would shout his name in battle.
Santiago or Saint James
A war season conducted by the Aztec to help gather human sacrifices was know as what?
Flower War
Name of the explorer who found the natives on the island we know today as "Hispaniola"
Christopher Columbus
Constructions in the center of the cities used by religious figures to study the stars, sacrifice, or other religious ceremonies.
Pyramids
Name of the group of women who are taken from a young age and kept "pure" until they are married off or given to religious duties
Chosen Women
The Al Alhambra decree specifically picked a group of people to expel from the Spanish kingdoms. Who were these people?
Jewish people
The most fearsome warrior of the Aztec is known as the...
Jaguar Warriors
Country that took over a section of the island, known then as Saint-Domingue, from Spain in 1665
France
Primary deity within the Maya society
Kukulkan or the Serpent God
Name of the primary Inca god
Ini
System in which the king is at the top of the social order, then the lords, knights, squires, and peasants who are required to work for everyone above them for protection is called...
Feudal system or Feudalism
The Aztec Empire was three combined state. Who was the leading state out of these tribes?
Mexica
Slavery was a brutal and terrible biproduct of colonization. What was the crop that was extracted from Saint-Domingue (Haiti)
Sugarcane (or Sugar)
Period in which the stars aligned and almost all of the Maya cities conducted war with each other
Star War
Like the Romans the Inca were well known for the construction of....
Roads
Name of a period in which Spanish Catholics would find anyone: Protestant, Jewish, or Muslim person and violently force them to convert to Catholicism, leave the kingdom, or be executed.
Spanish Inquisition
Process in which Aztec would engage in their agriculture to keep their people fed in the event of a siege.
Chinampa or "floating garden"
What was the set of rules called that King Louis XIV created to regulate the brutal slave trade in Saint-Domingue?
Code Noir