What is the world's second highest mountain range?
100
The Aztecs' first home, "Place of Reeds." It is where the word "Aztec" comes from.
What is Aztlan?
100
He conquered the Incas.
Who is Pizarro?
100
The descendants of the Aztec are called this.
What is Nahua?
200
The symbol for zero.
What is a shell?
200
This is the best preserved Inca site.
What is Machu Picchu?
200
The Aztecs may have modeled their new capital city, Tenochtitlan, on this ancient Mayan city.
What is Teotihuacan?
200
He conquered the Aztecs and the Maya, but the Maya were not subdued until the 1800s.
Who is Cortes?
200
The historical time periods of the Maya (there are three).
What are the Archaic, Preclassic, and Classic?
300
A well that provided essential water for the ancient Maya in the Yucatan Penninsula.
What is a cenote?
300
This refers to a small group of people who had as their original home the Cuzco area.
What is the Inca?
300
The Aztecs built Tenochtitlan on the northern part of this lake.
What is Lake Texcoco?
300
These were burned by a Spanish priest, Diego de Landa.
What are the Maya manuscripts?
300
In Guatemala, they have been forced to move from their villages, abandon their culture and language.
What are the Maya facing today?
400
Maya land is very difficult to reach with dense rain forests, mountains, volcanic peaks - also, Spanish royal government forbade foreigners to travel to its colonies
What is the reason that it took so long for the Maya ruins to be discovered?
400
The penalty for this could be death by hanging, stoning, or being pushed off a cliff.
What is being repeated laziness?
400
A group of hieroglyphics is called this.
What is a codex?
400
The Spanish melted these Incan treasures down. Few pieces/figurines remain today.
What is gold?
400
It can carry up to 80 pounds.
What is the llama?
500
This is the largest of the classical Maya sites.
What is Tikal?
500
When the Spanish arrived, they discovered this, an ancient Incan food.
What is the potatoe?
500
Huitzilopochtli is one of the most important gods of the Aztecs.
What is the Atzec god of war?
500
He thought Cortes was the god Quetzalcoatl.
Who is Montezuma?
500
The Incas did this in order to increase the amount of land that could be farmed.