MAYAS
Question: In what region did the Maya civilization develop?
Mesoamerica, especially present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and neighboring areas.
Question: What major mountain range was home to the Inca Empire?
The Andes Mountains.
Question: What was the capital of the Aztec Empire?
Tenochtitlán.
Enormous stone monuments are what the Olmec are especially famous for.
Colossal stone heads
100 — Question: Which continent contains Peru, the center of the Inca Empire?
Answer: South America.
Question: What mathematical concept did the Maya develop that was advanced for their time?
Answer: The concept/use of zero.
Who were Huáscar and Atahualpa, and why are they important to the fall of the Inca Empire?
Answer: They were rival Inca rulers/brothers whose civil war divided and weakened the empire shortly before the Spanish conquest.
Question: What farming technique allowed the Aztecs to grow crops in the lake environment around Tenochtitlán?
Chinampas.
Question: The Olmec civilization was the first compared to aztecs, mayas, incas they are know as "MOTHER ________" OF MESOAMERICA.
CULTURE
200 — Question: Which present-day country contains the location of Tenochtitlán?
Answer: Mexico.
(mexico city)
Why is the statement “The Maya calendar predicted the world would end in 2012” incorrect?
Answer:
The end of a Maya calendar cycle did not mean the end of the world; it marked the completion of one cycle and the beginning of another.
Question: What was a quipu, and what was it used for?
A system of cords and knots used to record and organize information, especially numerical records.
Question: Who was the Aztec ruler when Hernán Cortés arrived in 1519?
Moctezuma II.
Question: Archaeologists find jade and obsidian at Olmec sites, including materials originating far away. What can this evidence tell us?
Answer: The Olmec participated in long-distance trade/exchange networks.
What does Mesoamerica mean?
Mexico and Central America
The Maya used symbols called glyphs. What were glyphs used for?
To write and record information, including history, rulers, events, and religious ideas.
WHO WAS PACHACUTI?
Inca ruler is traditionally considered the 9th Sapa Inca and is known for greatly expanding the Inca Empire.
Question: Cortés had only a relatively small number of Spaniards. What important groups helped him fight the Mexica/Aztec Empire?
Answer: Indigenous allies, particularly groups hostile to Mexica rule, including the Tlaxcalans.
What does the name “Olmec” mean? or they were known for?
“Rubber people” / “people of the rubber country.”
Before the Aztecs were called aztecs they were the:
Mexicas
Historians say the Maya did not simply “disappear.” What evidence proves this?
Answer: Maya people, languages, traditions, and communities still exist today.
Question: Pizarro arrived with far fewer soldiers than the population of the Inca Empire. Give THREE factors that helped the Spanish conquest succeed.
Answer: Examples include disease, the Inca civil war/internal divisions, Indigenous allies, Spanish military advantages, and the capture of Atahualpa.
Question: Why is saying “Cortés and a few Spaniards defeated the Aztecs by themselves” historically misleading? Give TWO reasons.
Answer: Thousands of Indigenous allies participated, and epidemic disease—especially smallpox—also devastated the population. Other political divisions also mattered.
The Olmec were making something from rubber thousands of years ago that was connected to an important Mesoamerican sport. What was it?
Rubber balls used for the Mesoamerican ballgame.
QUESTION: Name the European who led the conquest of Tenochtitlán and the European who led the conquest of the Inca Empire.
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