Five Themes of Geography
physical + human characteristics of an area
What is place?
Geography of the Mayans
What is southern Mexico?
Geography of the Axtecs
What is Central Mexico?
Geography of the Incas
believe in many gods
What is polytheistic?
where we can find something on Earth
What is location?
Types of sacrifices the Mayans made
What are humans and animals?
floating islands used for Aztec crops
What are chinampas?
types of sacrifices in the Inca civilization
What is rare to none human sacrifices but gifts to gods instead?
motivation for the Spanish explorers to conquer the New World
What are gold, gods and glory?
A way people, products, and ideas move from place to place
What is movement?
Mayans were one of the first civilizations to have this number
What is zero?
used to please the gods in the Aztec civilizations
emperors believed themselves to be related to
What is the gods?
crop found in all three civilizations
What is corn?
relationships between people and the natural environment
What is human-environment interaction?
types of rulers and gives rulers power
What are kings and gods?
tribute in the Aztec civilization
tax to the empire for conquered people only
mita system in the Inca civilization
What is a labor tax where everyone works for the government?
type of ruler for the Incas and Aztecs
What is emporer?
similar characteristics
What is region?
Decline of the Aztecs
What is the Spanish explorers with better weapons and diseases?
Decline of the Inca
What is the Spanish explorers with better weapons, civil war and diseases?
Name of vacation home for the Inca emporers
What is Machu Picchu?