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Mayan
Aztec
Inca
European Exploration
Vocabulary
100
Mayan ruins were found in central Mexico, in this peninsula.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula.
100
The Aztecs were located in this modern day city.
What is Mexico city.
100
The Incas are located in this land form.
What is the Andes Mountains.
100
Tell me two countries that explored the Americas.
What is Portugal and Spain. Or France.
100
This means to have complete control over a good or goods.
What is a monopoly.
200
The Mayans lived in this type of environment.
What is the rain forest.
200
The Aztecs saw an eagle with a snake in its mouth on this lake, making it their official city of Tenochtitlan.
What is Lake Texcoco.
200
The Incas are were settled in this modern day country.
What is Peru.
200
This country funded Christopher Columbus' journey.
What is Spain.
200
This is the way the Incas kept track of goods and records.
What is quipu.
300
Why did the Mayans believe in human sacrifice?
To please their gods.
300
Aztec way of farming.
What is chinampas.
300
This European explorer conquered the Incas.
Who is Pizarro
300
The Europeans were motivated to explore due to these three causes.
What is to spread Christianity, in search of spices, and wanted to conquer more land and riches.
300
This is the way historians were able to learn the most about the Aztecs.
What is codices.
400
What are three Mayan achievements?
What is the calendar, number system (0-19), and astronomy.
400
Cortes conquered the Aztecs when this emperor was in charge.
Who is Montezuma.
400
The Incas fell so quickly to the Conquistador because of these two reasons.
What is they were in a civil war and diseases.
400
The Columbian Exchange connected these three continents.
What is Europe, South America, and North America.
400
When someone commits a crime against the government.
What is treason.
500
This is how the Mayan civilization ended.
What is no one really knows, it mysteriously ended, possibly because of starvation, conquered by other tribes, or diseases.
500
Malinche can best be described as...
What is Cortes' translator and side chick.
500
The Coricancha is significant because...
The Spanish tore it down and build a Catholic church on top of it to show their superiority.
500
A mestizo is defined as this.
What is mixed blood between the Indians and Europeans.
500
The Columbian Exchange was when...
What is when goods and diseases were exchanged with Europe and the Americas.