Geography
Mesoamerica
What is the best surviving collection of Maya religious stories called?
The Popul Vuh
What killed 60-90% of the indigenous populations of the New World?
Diseases brought by Europeans
What city was the Inca empire centered on?
Cuzco
What is the Spanish word for the conquerors who led the campaigns to conquer the native groups of Mesoamerica and South America?
Conquistador
What mountain range did the Inca predominantly inhabit?
What is the Mayan Calendar based on a series of cycles of religious rituals called?
Why did the Aztecs practice human sacrifice?
They believed it nourished the sun
In what year was the last Inca leader killed?
1572
What is another word besides "corn" for the most important staple crop in Mesoamerica?
Maize
What is the large, high plateau in South America called?
Altiplano
Wooden "mannikins"
What was the name of the conqueror who lead the campaign against the Aztec?
Hernan Cortes
Who was the conqueror who lead the campaign against the Inca?
Francisco Pizzaro
What is the worship complex in the mountains of Peru, built by the Inca?
Machu Pichu
Teotihuacan and Tenochtitlan are underneath which modern city?
Mexico City
What happened to most of the writings and stories of the Maya?
They were destroyed by the Spanish
Who was the last ruler of the Aztecs?
Montezuma
What were the wooden bars with colored string knotted in specific ways to convey information called?
Quipus
What term describes originally living or existing in a place or "native?"
Indigenous
The Aztec city of Teotihuacan was on an island in what lake?
Lake Texcoco
What is the feathered serpent god of both the Maya and the Aztecs called?
Quetzalcoatl
What year were the Aztecs conquered?
The Inca built their buildings with precisely cut stones to make them resistant to what?
Earthquakes
What is the day of the year when the day and night are of equal length?
Equinox