Straight Outta Cusco
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Tales From Tikal
Pre-Columbian Powerhouses
Totally Useless Trivia
100

High up in the mountains, this is the Inca's famous "Lost City."

What is Machu Picchu?

100

The name of the capital city built on a lake.

What is Tenochtitlan?

100

The number that the Maya are known for creating.

What is zero?

100

The primary crop grown by the Aztecs, Maya, and Inca civilizations.

What is maize? (corn)

100

The colors of the rainbow.

What are Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet?

200

This is what the Inca used as a way to record important information with knotted strings.

What are quipus?

200
Aztec ruins can be found in the central part of this country.

What is Mexico?

200

The Maya used these two things to create a very accurate calendar system.

What are the sun and the stars?

200

The civilization that is famous for giant stone heads.

Who are the Olmec?

200

The only letter not used in the name of any of the US State names.

What is Q?

300

The single, all powerful ruler in the Inca civilization.

What is the Sapa Inca?

300

The main purpose of human sacrifice in the Aztec culture was this.

What is to keep the sun rising?

300

The name of one of the Maya's most famous ruins.

What is Chichen Itza?

300

A type of book used by Mesoamerican civilizations.

What is a codex?

300

The original use that bubble wrap was invented for.

What is wallpaper?

400

The modern day country where you can find most of the Inca ruins.

What is Peru?

400
The Aztec believed in many gods, which is called this.

What is polytheism?

400

The two main reasons for the collapse of the Maya civilization.

What are natural disasters and drought?

400

The Mesoamerican civilization that had the first complex writing system.

Who are the Maya?

400

The name for a group of flamingos.

What is a flamboyance?

500

The Inca had an extensive network of these across their whole empire.

What are roads?

500

The Spanish Conquistador that conquered the Aztec.

Who is Hernan Cortes?

500

The Maya Civilization ruins can be found primarily in this modern-day country.

What is Guatemala?
500

Terrace farming was used in the mountains by this Mesoamerican civilization.

Who are the Inca?

500

This fruit was once considered so exotic that European royalty gave them as luxurious gifts and often rented them to display at parties.

What is the pineapple?