Spanish Conquest
The percentage of Aztecs killed by the Spanish and disease.
What is 90%
The number of people that can be found in the Aztec market on a given day. + 2 name common items that could be found there.
What is 60,000.
A system of _______________ connects this empire spanning 2500 miles.
What are roads.
How goods are bought and sold in the marketplace.
What is bartering?
The lowest class noble in Incan society.
What are leaders of conquered tribes?
The Aztecs believed the Spanish leader was this.
What is a fair skinned god returning to save the Aztecs at the end of the world.
What is tribute.
The purpose of Incan mummies.
What is provides a link between the living to the gods? Therefore, they seek advice from them, use them in ceremonies, etc.
Who can become the most elite Aztec Warrior? And how?
Who is anyone including commoners. What is by capturing 4 enemies in battle.
Two ways that the Incan were able to cross across the tops of deep mountain gorges.
What are pulley baskets and suspension bridges?
Both Montezuma and Atahualpa became this.
What is a puppet or a mouthpiece.
Connects the island to the mainland so that the inhabitanants are not stranded.
What are causeways.
The characteristics and purpose of a quipu.
What is a series of ropes of different lenghts and colors with knots, that contains a secret message?
This keeps the Aztecs from cheating at the market.
What are guards and judges?
The Aztecs that were required to train as soldiers.
What is all men?
This was done to both Montezuma and Atahualpa as part of the Spanish strategy to conquer the native people.
What is kidnapping.
Human made islands used for growing crops.
What are Chinampas
The invention developed by the Incas to expand their farmland into the mountains.
What are terraces?
The civilization that practiced the least human sacrifice. It was only practiced in time of ___________ or for ________________.
What are the Inca? What is in times of natural disaster or for very important ceremonial occasions?
A weakness of the Aztec empire taken advantage of by the Spanish.
What is that that they did not force those conquered to conform and therefore had a lack of unity?
The Spanish leader who defeated the Aztecs & the Spanish leader who defeated the Inca.
Who is Hernan Cortez and Fernando Pizarro.
The sign recieved by the Aztecs indicating they should settle in the middle of Lake Texcoco.
What is an eagle perched on a cactus, with a snake in its mouth.
What is a religious object was taken hostage?
1/3 of the commoners produce goes to the Sapa Inca and 1/3 is kept. Where does the remaining 1/3 of taxes go?
Where is to upkeeping the temples?
The definition of mercenary.
What is a professional soldier hired to serve another country?