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Fall of the Empire
100
This empire is located in the Yucatan Peninsula.
What is the Mayan Empire?
100
This is the name for the sun god the Incas believed in.
What is Inti?
100
The King of the Mayan Empire was believed to be directly connected to the gods or ____________________.
What is semi-divine?
100
The word for colored cords and knots the Incas used to keep track of records.
What is quipu?
100
in 1532 this Spanish explorer entered the Inca Empire looking for gold and glory.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
200
The Incan Empire is located in this place.
What is Peru?
200
This empire believed in extreme human sacrifice.
What is the Aztec Empire?
200
In the Inca Empire emperors had total control or ______________________.
What is absolute power?
200
This invention may have led to the Inca's fall.
What are suspension bridges?
200
This Spanish explorer came to the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
300
This empire was located in Mexico, North of the Yucatan Peninsula
What is the Aztec Empire?
300
This is the term for the Mayan belief in the upperworld, middle word, and underworld.
What is the World Tree?
300
Hieroglyphics, pok-a-tok, and calendars were all inventions made by this empire.
What is the Mayan civilzation?
300
farming method that caused the fall of this civilization
What is slash and burn farming?
400
This was the name of the capital of the Inca Empire?
What is Cuzco?
400
This Aztec emperor thought that Cortes was an Aztec god named Quetzalcoatl.
Who is Montezuma II?
400
The name for the emperor in the Aztec Empire.
What is huey tlatoani?
400
This type of bridge was developed by the Aztecs.
What is a rectractable bridge?
400
This emperor was kidnapped by Pizarro and held for ransom.
Who is Atahualpa?
500
This was the capital of the Aztec Empire.
What is Tenochtitlán?
500
This group believed in an afterlife and mummified people.
Inca Empire
500
This empire had 1,111 rulers for every 10,000 people that included governors and village officials.
Inca Empire
500
The name for the board game created by the Aztecs.
What is patolli?
500
When this last Inca Emperor was killed, the Inca Empire fell.
Who is Tupac Amaru?