Inca Empire
This was the main method the Inca used to connect and control their empire.
What are roads?
These floating gardens allowed the Aztecs to increase farmland in swampy areas.
What are chinampas?
The Mayans relied on these to build cities and exchange goods.
What are trade routes?
The Andes Mountains influenced this Incan development.
What is road systems for trade and communication?
In Incan society, these people worked full-time with gold and silver.
What are silversmiths?
The Inca were able to manage a vast empire using this system of storing goods and resources.
What are storehouses? (Daily Double -Spanish word for them)
The Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, was built on a lake. This was important for agriculture, protection, and…
What is water supply?
Like the Aztecs, the Mayans constructed these impressive religious structures.
What are temples?
The Aztecs created chinampas to solve this problem.
What is limited agricultural land?
Aztec markets included items like food, feathers, shells, and these precious materials.
What are gold and silver?
The Inca built large cities and conquered lands, but they did NOT develop this.
What is a written language?
The Aztecs maintained large markets by getting tribute and goods from this.
What are nearby cities and conquered people?
Mayan society is best described as this type of community: Pastoral, Semi-Sedentary, or Sedentary?
What is sedentary?
The location of Tenochtitlan gave the Aztecs these advantages.
What is water supply, protection, and fertile land for farming?
Incan tribute included goods like clothing, arms, and…
What is gold and silver?
Before 1532, the Inca expanded successfully because they developed methods to do this.
What is administer/maintain/govern a large empire?
Spanish accounts emphasized this Aztec practice to justify conquest.
What is human sacrifice?
A similarity between the Mayans and Aztecs is that they both did this.
What is engage in extensive trade?
The Inca, Aztec, and Mayan civilizations all had to adapt to this type of environmental challenge.
What is difficult terrain?
Spanish accounts often exaggerated this aspect of Aztec culture.
What is human sacrifice?
A similarity between the Inca and Aztec empires is that both
Held similar religious beliefs and adapted to the environment in clever ways to enhance agriculture. Conquered by the Spanish as well as similar time periods in America.
A similarity between the Aztecs and other civilizations is that they used religion to do this.
What is explain natural phenomena? (like the sun rising and setting each day)
This modern issue still affects Mayan descendants in Guatemala.
What is poverty and lack of access to basic services?
The Incan road system is similar to modern highways because it allowed these.
What is trade, communication, and military movement?
Temples of the Sun were found in both of these civilizations even though they are 2500 miles apart.
What are the Inca and Aztec?