Mesoamerica
This city, built on an island in Lake Texcoco, became the capital of the Aztecs.
What is Tenochtitlan?
The Inca considered this mountain range not only their homeland but a living landscape filled with spirits called apus.
What are the Andes Mountains?
What is 1492?
This Caribbean island is divided between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
What is Hispaniola?
The Indianapolis 500, Le Mans, and the Kentucky Derby are both events that highlight human competition and physical skill.
What is a Race
This staple crop, used in tortillas and tamales, was central to Maya and Mexica agriculture and religion alike.
What is maize (corn)?
The Inca made tools from this metal, since they did not have iron or steel.
What is bronze?
Maize, Potatoes, and Beans are all examples of ____ Crops that were grown in Pre-Colombian America.
What are Staple Crops?
The majority of Brazil’s population speaks this language, not Spanish.
What is Portuguese?
This girls name ranked 51 on the top 100 2025 names for girls.
What is Maya?
This Spanish conquistador led the expedition that resulted in the fall of the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
This Spanish conquistador captured and executed the Inca emperor Atahualpa in 1533.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
This phrase describes the massive population decline of Indigenous peoples in the Americas following European contact.
What is the Great Dying?
This capital was built on the site of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan.
What is Mexico City?
This is the name of the Sid Meier video game franchise where players build and manage empires through history.
What is Civilization
They were used as burial sites for tribal leaders and contained multiple ceremonial objects and offerings.
What could have been the purpose of the mounds in different Woodland cultures?
The Inca built this type of stepped farming structure to grow crops on mountainsides.
What are terrace farms?
Sugar, Cotton, and Tabacco are all examples of ____ Crops that were grown in America on plantations.
What is Cash or Luxury crop?
These volcanic islands off Ecuador are home to unique wildlife that inspired Charles Darwin.
What are the Galápagos Islands?
A popular men’s fragrance by Dior. It has notes of Calabrian bergamot, pepper, and Szechuan Pepper
What is Savage
Overpopulation and overfarming were key factors in the collapse of this civilization in the 9th century.
Who were the Maya?
Instead of a written language, the Inca used knotted strings called this to record information.
What is a quipu?
The Columbian Exchange is often viewed as an early form of this process, which binds distant regions through trade and culture.
What is globalization?
This Mexican peninsula separates the Gulf of Mexico (America) from the Caribbean Sea. It was home to the Mayan civilization.
What is the Yucatán Peninsula?
In the 2004 movie, a long-distance horse race across the Arabian desert tests the endurance of the rider and his horse.
What is Hidalgo?
The Aztecs believed this sun and war god required human sacrifice to keep the world in motion.
Who is Huitzilopochtli in the Aztec belief system?
The Inca worshipped this sun god, believed to be the ancestor of the royal family.
Who is Inti?
This Spanish colonial system classified people by ancestry, creating categories such as mestizo, mulatto, and criollo.
What is the Casta System?
According to myth, the Mexica set up their city in a spot where they saw THIS happening.
What is an eagle eating a snake on a cactus?
It was first established in 1754 as King's College by royal charter under George II of Great Britain on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan.
What is Columbia (University)?