Geography and Location
This region, which includes Mexico and Central America, was home to the Maya and Aztec civilizations.
What is Mesoamerica?
The Maya were organized into these independent political units.
What are city-states?
The Maya, Aztec, and Inca all practiced this type of religion.
What is polytheism?
The Maya created this type of writing system.
What is hieroglyphics?
The Maya civilization began to decline around this year.
What is 900 A.D.?
The Maya lived on this peninsula.
What is the Yucatán Peninsula?
This title was given to the Inca emperor.
What is the Sapa Inca?
The Aztec god of the sun and war.
Who is Huitzilopochtli?
This structure allowed the Aztecs to connect their island city to the mainland.
What are causeways?
This disease weakened the Inca before the Spanish arrived.
What is smallpox?
This city was built an top a lake in what is today Mexico City.
What is Tenochtitlan
The Aztec Empire expanded mainly through this method.
What is conquest?
Inca’s main god was Inti, the god of this.
What is the sun?
The Inca’s expertly fitted stone structures were built without this.
What is mortar?
Civil war weakened this empire before its fall.
What is the Inca Empire?
The Inca Empire was located along this South American mountain range.
What are the Andes Mountains?
The Inca divided their empire into how many regions?
What is four?
This gruesome ritual was practiced heavily by the Aztecs to give the sun strength.
What is human sacrifice?
The Maya developed this type of calendar with 365 days.
What is a solar calendar?
The Aztecs fell in this year.
What is 1521?
The Inca capital city.
What is Cuzco?
This Spanish leader conquered the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
The Inca believed in this afterlife concept.
What is reincarnation?
The Inca performed this medical procedure on the skull.
What is skull surgery / trepanation?
The Spanish leader who conquered the Inca.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?