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Vocabulary
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Early Civilization & the Incas
Incas and European Conquest
European Conquest
100
another name for corn
What is maize?
100
an official count of all the people in an area and how they make a living
What is a census?
100
these people had great cities which were religious centers and had an accurate calendar and used hieroglyphics
Who are the Mayas?
100
these people are descendants of the Incas and live in the Andes
Who are the Quechua?
100
Moctezuma's spies said that these people were "supernatural creatures riding on hornless deer, armed in iron, fearless as gods"
Who are the Spanish?
200
a system of writing using signs and symbols
What is hieroglyphics?
200
a pipe of channel that carries water from a distant source
What is an aqueduct?
200
Mayas still live in this area because their ancestors left their cities but stayed in this region
What is Middle America?
200
the Incas and Aztecs were defeated because the Spanish had better weapons and horses; this other reason wiped out many more people
What is disease?
300
capital city of the Aztec empire, located where Mexico City now stands
What is Tenochtitlan?
300
knotted strings on which the Incas recorded information
What is a quipu?
300
this person ruled over the Mayan people
What is the emperor?
300
he sailed in 1492 and reached the Indies
Who is Christopher Columbus?
300
potatoes originally came from this hemisphere
What is the western hemisphere?
400
the emperor of the Incas, who expanded their empire
Who was Topa Inca?
400
the main food of the Mayas
What is maize?
400
this village was where the Incas created their empire which is in the Andes (or Peru today)
What is Cuzco?
400
this man thought Cortes was a god
Who was Moctezuma?
400
people who are mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry
What is a mestizo?
500
this was the capital city of the Incan empire
What is Cuzco?
500
an ancient game played by the Mayas where the players tried to hit a rubber ball through a stone hoop above the ground
What is pok-ta-tok?
500
these people had a well-organized government, roads, bridges, canals and the quipu
Who are the Incas?
500
the Quechua practice this way of farming and live isolated
What is subsistence farming?
500
Simon Bolivar greatly admired this country
What is the United States?