Inca
The Incan empire is located primarily in what modern-day South American country?
Peru (West Coast of South America)
The Mayan empire was located in which modern country?
Mexico (Yucatan).
The Aztecs, who migrate to the region, develop their calendar and writing system by borrowing from which earlier Mesoamerican Empire?
The Maya
In the context of Columbian exchange, did diseases such as smallpox, influenza, typhus and measles come from the "Old World" (Africa, Asia and Europe) or the "New World" (Central, South and North America)?
Diseases such as smallpox, influenza, typhus and measles came from the "Old World" (Africa, Asia and Europe)
Italian navigator who sailed for the Spanish west in the hopes of reaching Asia but instead landed in the Caribbean where he exploited and enslaved the indigenous he met there.
Christopher Columbus
What is the major Incan city complex built on top of a mountain and recognized today as a wonder of the world?
Machu Picchu
The Maya borrow some of their religious ideas from which older Mesoamerican civilization?
Olmec
Huitzilopochtli was the Aztec tribal patron and patron deity, what was Huitzilopochtli associated with?
Warfare and sacrifice
In the context of Columbian exchange, did livestock (cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, etc.) come from the "Old World" (Africa, Asia and Europe) or the "New World" (Central, South and North America)?
Livestock (cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, etc.) came from the "Old World" (Africa, Asia and Europe)
The Ming Dynasty explorer who went from eunuch to admiral and sailed around the known world to extract tribute and demonstrate Ming imperial power.
Zheng He
Like other Mesoamerican empires, the Inca were polytheistic (worshipped many deities), but their primary deity was what kind of god?
A Sun God (Apu-punchau)
The Maya develop which kind of advanced, character-based writing system?
Hieroglyphics (pictographs)
The Aztec capital city, because it's situated on a lake, what were used as highways for transportation and travel?
An intricate canal system.
In the context of Columbian exchange, did foods like tomatoes, potatoes, pumpkins, avocados and peanuts come from the "Old World" (Africa, Asia and Europe) or the "New World" (Central, South and North America)?
Foods like tomatoes, potatoes and peanuts came from the "New World" (Central, South and North America).
The "Viking" explorer, son of Eric the Red, who traveled from Greenland to Newfoundland Canada and was likely the first European to cross the Atlantic and reach modern day "America".
Leif Eriksson
Because they were located on mountains, they developed this type of farming, which layers crops on flat surfaces?
Terrace Farming
The Maya are known in the realm of science for their advanced calendar and intricate knowledge of which out-of-this-world science?
Astronomy
After the Aztecs (Mexica) migrate to Lake Texcoco in central Mexico, they found what city (modern-day Mexico city) in 1325 CE over a century before the empire started in 1434 CE?
The city of Tenochtitlan
In the context of Columbian exchange, did foods like wheat, rice, oats, olives and bananas come from the "Old World" (Africa, Asia and Europe) or the "New World" (Central, South and North America)?
Foods like wheat, rice, oats, olives and bananas came from the "Old World" (Africa, Asia and Europe).
The two Spanish Conquistadors who invaded the Mesoamerican Aztec and Incan Empires.
Hernando Cortez and Francisco Pizarro.
Because the Incan empire was primarily mountainous, what did they build as highways to connect their land?
Roads and (hanging) bridges.
The Maya develop an intricate system of mathematics used for arithmetic, and were the first known group to invent which concept (less than 1)?
The concept of zero.
In the Aztec capital city, because it's situated on a lake, the Aztec built man-made floating islands called what?
Chinampas
In the context of Columbian exchange, did slaves comes from the "Old World" (Africa, Asia and Europe) or the "New World" (Central, South and North America)?
Slaves came from the "New" (Americans) and "Old Worlds" (Africa). They came from the non-European world.
A Portuguese explorer (though funded by Spain) who sailed around the world and became the first known person to circumvent the globe.
Ferdinand Magellan