Geography
Aztec Antics
Inca Ideas
Columbian Encounters
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100
Camila Cabello sang about this city with “ooh na na.”
What is Havana (oh na na)
100
The island capital of the Aztecs, built in Lake Texcoco
What is Tenochtitlan
100
The mountain range that was home to the Inca Empire
The Andes
100
The island where Spain founded its first colony in the Americas
Hispaniola
100
It is the capital city of Ohio.
What is Columbus?
200
This capital on the Río de la Plata river is named for “good winds”
What is Buenos Aires
200
The Aztec "Empire" fell in this century.
What is 16th.
200
Knotted cords the Inca used to keep records
Quipus
200
The name for the deaths of millions of Indigenous Americans after 1492
The Great Dying
200
This is the first name of the poet who wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Who is Maya (Angelou)
300
This capital shares its name with its country and sits beside a famous canal
What is Panama City
300
The Aztec emperor whom Cortés took prisoner in his own palace
Who is Moctezuma II
300
The capital of the Inca Empire
Cuzco
300
The monarchs who paid for Columbus’s first voyage
Ferdinand and Isabella
300
Mexicans call the long gulf between Baja California and the mainland a “sea” named after this man.
Who is Cortés? (It is the Sea of Cortés.)
400
This capital was built from scratch in the 1950s in the middle of a huge country
What is Brasilia
400
The sun god the Aztecs believed needed human blood to fight the forces of darkness
Who is Huitzilopochtli
400
The Spanish would use the Inca mita system to force indigenous people to mine silver from this famous mountain
What is Potosi
400
The system giving colonists the right to Native labor and tribute
Encomienda
400
This much-mocked Pontiac crossover SUV came out in 2001
What is the Aztek?
500
Only two nations have guns on their flags, Angola is one, and this is the other.
What is Haiti
500
The Mexica people spoke this language
What is Nahuatl
500
The Inca ruler Pizarro captured at Cajamarca in 1532
Atahualpa
500
The Italian republic where Columbus was born
Genoa
500
This 2004 movie starring Viggo Mortensen follows a mustang in a long-distance race across the Arabian desert.
What is Hidalgo?