The Inca
What was the most famous Incan city in the mountains?
Machu Pichu
What was the name of the capital city of the Aztec Empire?
Who was the head of government in both the Inca and the Aztec Empires?
The Emperor
What did the Aztecs perfect to make journeys through rivers and streams easier.
Canoes
The continent of _________________________ is in the Western Hemisphere, right under North America.
South America
The Inca people called themselves “the children of the Sun” because the sun god, ________________ , was their most important god.
Inti
What was the main crop of the Aztec Empire?
Maize (Corn)
The artisans and merchants in the __________________________ class were often some of the wealthiest people in the Aztec society.
Commoners
The Incas were masters of what practice that allowed them to build walls and roads without any binding material between the materials.
Stone cutting
The Central Mexican Plateau is located in _____________________, a region of North America.
Central America
What did the Incas carve into the sides of Mountains to grow crops and filter water?
Terraces
These enabled the Aztec civilization to keep its farmland and food supply nearby. Sometimes called floating gardens.
Chinampas
The Aztecs were the first empire in the world to send all children, regardless of their social class, where?
School
The Aztecs mastered medicine and were able to find remedies for what three illnesses?
Name 2-3
High blood pressure, epilepsy, insomnia.
What lake was the capital city of the Aztec Empire located on?
Lake Texcoco
Incan engineers built these out of stone. These enabled people to bathe, drink water from fountains, and use water for planting crops.
Stone Aqueducts
Who was the ninth and last true emperor of the Aztec Empire?
Moctezuma II
Polytheistic
What did the Aztecs study to create very accurate calendars?
Astronomy
What agricultural practice did the Aztec people perfect to make harvesting in the jungle successful?
Slash and Burn Agriculture
An all-powerful emperor, his name meaning “the only Inca,” ruled the empire. What do we call the Inca Emperor?
The Sapa Inca
The Spanish explorers destroyed Tenochtitlan and defeated the Aztec Empire in what year?
1521
What, in the Aztec Empire, means “big house.” Each owned land and had its own chief, school, and trade?
Capillies
Explain how Incan terraces filtered water and also worked as an irrigation.
The Incas would layer sediment from coarse to fine, filtering the water as it went through the sediment. As it filtered, it would drop into the other terraces to water the next set of crops.
Name the four social classes of the Aztec empire, in order.
Nobles
Commoners
Surfs
Slaves