Landforms
To increase the land available for farming, the Aztecs built
Chinampas
Who is famous for conquering the Incas?
Francisco Pizarro.
What was the importance of griots in African society?
They maintained the oral history of their people.
What landform is between the two mountain ranges?
Plateau
The Aztec Empire was based on tribute. This means that the people who lived in the empire id what?
Paid goods to the Aztec government.
What were the center of Maya cities?
Pyramids and palaces.
A major breakthrough of the Maya was that they developed the math concept of
Zero
Which region developed algebra, extended knowledge of trigonometry, and spread the concept of zero to Europe?
The Middle East
Why did the Aztecs need the aqueducts, dikes, causeways, and canals?
Because the lived on islands.
Many Maya pyramids were topped by
temples
How did the geography of the Andes affect the Incas?
The steep hills forced the Incas to build terraces to farm.
Maya astronomers created three major types of
calendars
Who is famous for conquering the Aztecs?
Hernan Cortes
the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.
Where did the Incan civilization develop?
In the Andes mountains of South America
What buildings would you find in a Mesoamerican city?
Temples and Pyramids
Incan architects and engineers are famous for building what?
Thousands of miles of roads to connect the empire.
According to their religion, the Maya believed that __________ and _________ communicated with the gods?
Kings and priests.
a system of economic, social, and political organization based on the medieval manor in which a lord enjoyed a variety of rights over land and tenants
Manorialism
Say and spell the name of the famous peninsula in Mesoamerica.
Yucatan
The group that ruled the Aztec Empire was known as
The Triple Alliance
The Incas created the Quipu, a record-keeping device made from what?
Knotted pieces of string.
What were organized by western European Christians after centuries of Muslim wars of expansion. Their primary objectives were to stop the expansion of Muslim states, to reclaim for Christianity the Holy Land in the Middle East, and to recapture territories that had formerly been Christian.
The Crusades