The Mayans
The oldest of the three largest civilizations in South and Central America.
What is the Mayan Civilization?
An Indigenous people who lived in what is now central and southern Mexico.
What is the Aztec Civilization?
The capital of the Aztec Civilization that was established by 1325.
What is Tenochtitlan?
This spread all the way from Ecuador to Argentina and Chile.
What is the Inca Empire?
The city that was the center of activity in the Inca Empire.
What was Cuzco?
The Mayan Empire last from 300 AD to this year.
What is 900 AD?
The capital of Mexico, which has a rich history.
What is Mexico City?
The Aztec Empire included 400 to 500 city-states in what is now Mexico in the early part of this century.
What are the 1500s?
In 1438, he led Incas to conquer and claim struggling towns to form the Inca Empire.
Who was Pachacuti?
In the Inca Empire, they carried out most of the manual labor.
Who are peasants?
Nobles lived in great houses, and most Mayans were this.
What are peasant farmers?
The center of the Aztec Empire and a place where people worshiped gods in a huge Aztec temple.
What is Tenochtitlan?
This was rewarded with advancement and honor.
What is Success?
This disease killed thousands of Incas, as it spread quickly and Incas had no immunity to this illness.
What is smallpox?
Long ropes that were the historical record of the Incas.
What is Quipus?
The society, culture, and way of life of a particular area.
What is Civilization?
More than this number of people walked about Tenochtitlan every day.
What is 200,000?
More than this number of people were ruled by the Aztec emperor.
What is 5 million?
The name of the Inca Empire, as the government divided the land into four main regions.
What is "The Land of the Four Quarters?"
Cuzco is located in what is now this country.
What is Peru?
Overcome and take control of (a place or people) by use of military force.
What is Conquer?
The most important city or town of a country or region, usually its seat of government and administrative center.
What is Capital?
Make or cause to make progress.
What is Advance?
The state or quality of being resistant to a particular infectious disease or pathogen.
What is Immunity?
Very complicated or detailed.
What is Intricate?