GRAPES Terms
This is the most basic task that any civilization must perform. It can be affected by the geography of where the civilization is located.
feed its population
This civilization was located in the Valley of Mexico.
Aztecs
What social class in Aztec and Inca society was responsible for performing the rituals needed to please the gods?
priests
To overcome the challenge of the mountains that separated them from the other areas of their empires, the Aztecs and the Inca each built what?
road network
Both the Aztec and Inca economies were based on this activity.
farming
Scientific knowledge, mathematical understanding, and works of art are all examples of what GRAPES area?
achievements
This civilization was located in the Andes Mountains on the western edge of South America.
Incas
The Azteca and Inca both believed in many gods. Is the term for this belief monotheism or polytheism?
polytheism
Aztec tememes and Inca chaskis were both what?
government messengers
The Aztec Empire grew wealthy by forcing its subjects to pay it a certain amount of goods every year. What is the term for when a weaker group must pay a stronger group?
tribute
To function effectively, a civilization’s political system needs to have a system for choosing what?
The next ruler
What was the original name for corn, the main crop of both the Aztec and Inca empires?
maize
What person in Aztec and Inca society was responsible for performing the most important religious rituals?
emperor
To record information about their empire and culture, the Aztecs created codices. What is a codex?
A type of book
In the Inca Empire, every person was required every year to perform work on government projects or producing resources for the government. What was the term for this required labor system?
mit’a
In an economy, the price of goods is frequently determined by what two factors?
supply and demand
The Aztecs developed this farming method to create farmland and feed their population.
chinampas
The Aztecs believed that the gods needed energy to maintain the world. How did the Aztecs provide the gods with this energy?
human sacrifice
To record information about their empire, the Inca used a system of knotted strings called what?
khipu
Where did ordinary people in the Aztec empire get the goods they needed for their daily lives?
marketplaces
In a society, social classes are separated by their different what?
status
The Incas developed this farming method to create farmland and feed their population.
terraces
The Inca believed that if the gods were not pleased, then they would cause what to happen?
natural disasters
The Inca made their knotted strings from cotton and the wool from what animal that the Inca raised?
llama
What was the term for the storehouses where the Inca government kept the goods they collected from the people of their empire every year?
colca