Vocabulary
What crop did the Maya and Aztec grow that is another name for corn?
Maize
What type of religion did the Maya practice?
Polytheism
How did the Aztec please the gods?
They did sacrifices
What animal did the Inca use to carry things across the mountains?
Llama
What was the capital of the Aztec Empire which is modern-day Mexico City?
Tenochtitlan
What is a causeway?
A road built over water by the Aztec Empire
What is a codex?
A book-like method of recording information
What was the name of the Aztec king who was the ruler at the time the Spanish came to the Americas?
Moctezuma
What did the Inca build in order to connect the vast Inca Empire?
Roads
What is the name of the region that all of these Native American groups come from?
Mesoamerica
What was the writing system that the Maya used and wrote in stone columns called a codex?
Glyphs
What did the Maya use as money?
Cacao beans OR obsidian
What was a way that the Aztec had to adapt to living in swampy conditions?
They built floating gardens called chinampas.
How did the Inca adapt to living in a mountainous area?
They built steps in the mountains called terraces to make flat space to farm.
What was the name of the peninsula in which the Maya lived?
The Yucatan Peninsula
What is the name of the Inca royal retreat that was built between the mountains?
Macchu Picchu
What were the consequences of losing the ball game?
The losing team was sacrificed and the captain was beheaded.
Which god did the Aztec think Hernan Cortes was when he arrived in 1519?
Quetzalcoatl
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What mountain range did the Inca empire cover?
The Andes Mountains
What was the name that Spanish explorers were given which means "conqueror"?
Conquistadors
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What was the name for the payment that other tribes had to give the Aztec in order for them to stop attacking them?
Tribute
Why did the Spanish come to the Incas' area and how is it different than why they came to the Aztecs' area?
The Spanish came to convert the Inca to Christianity. This is different than the Aztecs because they came there for their riches.
What was the difference in where the Inca lived and where the Maya and Aztec lived? (Think about the continents)
The Inca lived in South America and the Maya and Aztec lived in North/Central America.