People
This is the amount of power that Mayan kings had.
What is complete power?
Kings, noblemen, and governors lived here.
It was expected that the king of the Mayans would do this before a great battle.
What is shed his own blood?
These people called North America "the new world" for this reason.
What is the Europeans and because to them it was completely new!
Who is Saint Augustine?
This man gave his name to the Americas.
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
This is the bridge of land that links North and South America.
What is Central America?
This is a good that was traded by the Incas.
What is cloth made from llama and sheep wool, pottery jars made in the shape of animals' and men's heads, and gold and turquoise jewelry.
This happened to the losers of a Mayan ball game.
This is the founder of the Frankish dynasty.
Who is Clovis I?
This is the name of the first great empire in Central America.
What is the Mayan Empire?
This capital city was built in the middle of a lake.
Where is Tenochtitlan?
This is a description of the city of Cuzco.
What is "straight streets, paved with cobblestones; it had stone houses built without mortar; the houses had small doors and no windows because of the cold; the city was laid out in the shape of a puma.
This is two ways that the Aztecs made the island dry enough to build houses.
What is 1) They hauled earth and stone from land around the lake and dumped it on the beaches 2) They pulled basketfuls of mud from the lake bottom and filled in the swamps 3) They cut poles, drove them into the bottom of the lake, attached reed mats to the poles to make fences, and filled the fences with dirt.
This is the man who stopped the Moorish advance into Europe from the Iberian peninsula at the Battle of Tours.
Who is Charles Martel (Charles the Hammer)?
What is Incan leader who built the city of Cuzco because his gold staff leapt from his hand and stuck in the ground.
This is the peninsula that the Mayans lived on.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
These are two reasons the Mayan cities crumbled away into the jungle.
What is: 1) they got so big the area around them couldn't support them 2) hurricanes and earthquakes toppled buildings 3) people were tired of the cruel kings 4) the Aztecs kept attacking?
This is the reason that the Incan god Into sent his son or daughter to earth.
What is to teach people to build cities, wear clothes, and live in peace because they were living like animals.
This device blasted a hole through the wall of Constantinople.
What is the basilic canon?
This is the person that built good, wide roads in the Incan empire.
Who is Huayna Capac?
This is the name of the modern day country that contains where the Incas lived.
What is Peru?
This is how Huayna Capac's city governors sent messages to each other.
What is by tying complicated knots in ropes that messengers carried from one city to another.
This is how the Aztecs stopped outsiders from entering their city.
What is rolling logs into the canals and rolling them out to make the canal uncrossable.
This is the name of Justinian's wife.
Who is Theodora?