Geography of Latin America
What is the famous capital of Aztecs?
Tenochtitlan
What were the Mayan broken into, similar to Greeks and Sumerians?
City States
Famous city of West Africa?
Timbuktu
What religion was Axum?
Christian
Name of Floating Islands?
Chinampas
Where is the Mayan Civilization located?
What is one achievements of the Olmecs?
Big Stone Heads
What is the term for the drying out of the land due to overuse and climate.
Bantu Migration
Term for payment from conquered people used by Aztecs?
Tribute
What mountains are located in the Incan Civilization?
Andes
What is a quipu?
Colored, knotted strings used by the Incans to keep records
What is name of the explorer who traveled across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Iberian Peninsula over a period of 30 years.
Ibn Battuta
Term for leader of Incans?
Sapa Inca
What is the agricultural method used by the Mayans?
They slash and burn the land, raise the fields, and dig drainage ditches
What methods were used by the Incans to unite their empire and control trade?
Extensive roads and bridges
What is the name for the trade of gold for salt in West Africa?
Trans Saharan Trade
What is the name of the language that was a result of a blending of East African and Muslim culture
Name of writing used by Mayans?
Hieroglyphics
How did the Aztecs adapt to their geographic challenges?
The built chinampas by putting down reed mats, interweaving weeds and mud, planting willow trees, essentially creating floating islands
What are some major achievements of the Aztecs?
Calendar, Temples, Herbal treatments, setting bones, treating dental cavities, schools
What is most of Africa geographically?
Savanna
What two leaders traveled to Mecca to show their devotion to Islam?
Mansa Musa and Emperor Askia Muhammad
Quechua