Vocabulary
Picture writing used by Mayans and Aztecs.
What is hieroglyphics?
The major cities of the Mayans.
What are Copan and Tikal?
This is where the Aztecs were located.
What is the Valley of Mexico?
The Inca built vast ___________ that covered thousands of miles.
What are roads?
An imaginary line that the Spanish and Portuguese used to divide land in South America?
What is the line of demarcation?
The count of people and how they make a living.
What is a census?
Where the Mayan's were located.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula? (Mexico and part of Central America)
This was the center of the Aztec civilization.
What is Tenochtitlan?
This was the Incan center of government, or capital city
What is Cuzco?
Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama became joined in a federation under Simon Bolivar called this.
What is Gran Columbia?
A person that is a blend of Spanish and Native American.
What is a mestizo?
These were like a church or synagogue for the Mayans.
What is a pyramid?
This was a major accomplishment for the Aztec farming.
What are floating gardens?
This is where the Incas were located.
What is Peru? (or, West coast of South America along the Andes Mountains)
Brazil was a colony of this European country.
What is Portugal?
This is what the Maya called their "books"
What is a codex?
This was one the the greatest inventions in mathematics in history.
What is the zero (0).
The Aztecs settled on this lake
What is Lake Texcoco?
The Incas counted people in the empire so they could be...
What is taxed?
They were two revolutionary leaders who gained independence in South America.
Who are Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin?
Military officers who ruled strictly.
Who were caudillos?
True or false? Today, millions of Mayan descendants still live in the Yucatan Peninsula?
What is True?
These people were the ones who conquered the Inca and the Aztec.
What are conquistadors or the Spanish?
This was the nickname of the Incas, or what they called themselves.
What is "People of the Sun"?
This was the first European colony to gain independence in the Americas.
What is Haiti or Saint-Domingue?