Mesoamerica
Inca
Savage and Civilized
Columbian Exchange
American Geography
100
This city, built on an island in Lake Texcoco, became the capital of the Aztecs.
What is Tenochtitlan?
100
The Inca considered this mountain range not only their homeland but a living landscape filled with spirits called apus.
What are the Andes Mountains?
100
This large grazing animal was central to the Plains tribes’ way of life before being hunted nearly to extinction in the 19th century.
What is the bison (buffalo)?
100
In this year, Columbus sailed across the Atlantic for the first time.
What is 1492?
100
This Caribbean island is divided between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
What is Hispaniola?
200
This staple crop, used in tortillas and tamales, was central to Maya and Mexica agriculture and religion alike.
What is maize (corn)?
200
The Inca made tools from this metal, since they did not have iron or steel.
What is bronze?
200
This Italian explorer’s name was used for the continents of the Americas.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
200
Maize, Potatoes, and Beans are all examples of ____ Crops that were grown in Pre-Colombian America.
What are Staple Crops?
200
The majority of Brazil’s population speaks this language, not Spanish.
What is Portuguese?
300
This Spanish conquistador led the expedition that resulted in the fall of the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
300
This Spanish conquistador captured and executed the Inca emperor Atahualpa in 1533.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
300
Who is this woman?
Who is America?
300
This phrase describes the massive population decline of Indigenous peoples in the Americas following European contact.
What is the Great Dying?
300
This capital was built on the site of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan.
What is Mexico City?
400
This Nahua woman served as interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for Cortés during the conquest of the Aztecs.
Who is La Malinche (Doña Marina)
400
The Inca built this type of stepped farming structure to grow crops on mountainsides.
What are terrace farms?
400
Land set aside by the U.S. government for Native American tribes to live on today is called this.
What are reservations?
400
Sugar, Cotton, and Tabacco are all examples of ____ Crops that were grown in America on plantations.
What is Cash or Luxury?
400
These volcanic islands off Ecuador are home to unique wildlife that inspired Charles Darwin.
What are the Galápagos Islands?
500
Overpopulation and overfarming were key factors in the collapse of this civilization in the 9th century.
Who were the Maya?
500
Instead of a written language, the Inca used knotted strings called this to record information.
What is a quipu?
500
This Pennsylvania school was created by the U.S. government to assimilate Native American children into Euro-American culture.
What was the Carlisle Indian Industrial School?
500
The Columbian Exchange is often viewed as an early form of this process, which binds distant regions through trade and culture.
What is globalization?
500
This Mexican peninsula separates the Gulf of Mexico (America) from the Caribbean Sea. It was home to the Mayan civilization.
What is the Yucatán Peninsula?
600
The Aztecs believed this sun and war god required human sacrifice to keep the world in motion.
Who is Huitzilopochtli?
600
The Inca worshipped this sun god, believed to be the ancestor of the royal family.
Who is Inti?
600
Pratt’s infamous motto was: “Kill the Indian, save the _____.”
What is Man?
600
This Spanish colonial system classified people by ancestry, creating categories such as mestizo, mulatto, and criollo.
What is the Casta System?
600
According to myth, the Mexica set up their city in a spot where they saw THIS happening.
What is an eagle eating a snake on a cactus?