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Maya
Inca
Aztec
Geography
100
This country is the northern-most country in Latin America.
What is Mexico?
100
The Maya developed in this area of Latin America.
What is Mexico and Central America?
100
The Inca developed in this part of Latin America.
What are the Peruvian Andes (South America)?
100
The Aztec developed in this part of Latin America.
What is Mexico?
100
This river stretches from the Andes Mountain to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Amazon River?
200
These four regions make up what is known as Latin America.
What is Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean Islands, and South America?
200
One intellectual advancement attributed to the Maya includes this.
What is the mathematical concept of zero OR 365-day calendar OR written language (hieroglyphs)?
200
The Inca built these to help farm the steep mountainsides.
What are terraces?
200
In order to maintain a powerful empire and to gain honor for dying for Huizilpochtli many Aztec did this.
What is join the army?
200
These mountains are the longest continuous mountain range in the world.
What are the Andes Mountains?
300
This region of Latin America is made up many small islands.
What is the Caribbean?
300
This is the name given to the written Maya language.
What is hieroglyphs?
300
The Inca built these to help water their crops in the desert lands.
What are irrigation canals?
300
These are the floating gardens created by the Aztec.
What is chinampas?
300
These began as volcanoes and coral reefs.
What are the Caribbean Islands?
400
This region connects Mexico to South America.
What is Central America?
400
This method of farming included cutting down trees and burning them, planting crops, letting the forest grow back. The process was then repeated.
What is slash and burn?
400
Because Inca lacked this, they communicated by having relay teams of messengers run along roads carrying verbal messages from one place to another.
What is written communication?
400
This island city was once the capital of the Aztec empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
400
This narrow strip of land connects Central America to South America.
What is an isthmus of Panama?
500
This region of Latin America is also a continent.
What is South America?
500
The 365-day calendar created by the Maya was based on this.
What is the sun's movement?
500
The Inca ruler, Atahualpa, was conquered by this Spaniard.
Who is Francisco Pizzaro?
500
This Aztec ruler was captured by Hernan Cortes.
Who is Montezuma II?
500
This city is built upon a drained lake bed and is prone to earthquakes and high levels of pollution.
What is Mexico City?