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The number of people living in a particular place
What is population?
The Inca used this method to farm the land in the Andes Mountains.
What is using terrace farming in hillsides?
A part of southern Mexico surrounded on three sides by water.
What is the Yucatan Penisula?
Gardens built from the bed of Lake Texcoco.
What is a Chinampa?
Of the following, this helped make the Maya great, a written language, the ability to eat well, have a lot of children.
What is a written language?
A large structure with a square base and four triangular sides that form a point at the top.
What is a pyramid?
This empire was being built at this place at the same as the Inca empire.
What are the Maya in Mexico?
The moutain range where the Inca civilization began.
What are the Andes Mountains?
The Aztec lived here.
What is the Valley of Mexico?
This helped the Maya build pyramids, plot the heavens and trade with each other.
What is a number system?
A building devoted to religious worship
What is a temple?
Three ways the Inca did to create a superior network of roads.
What are built tunnels, laid steps up rocky cliffs, stacked stones and floating reeds to form causeways, built rope bridges, built low stone walls, edged roads with stone gutters, built inns for travelers?
Mountains and volcanos existed here.
What is the Valley of Mexico?
The Aztec had a school in every calpullin for this reason.
What is they valued education?
The ancient Maya had two of these, one for the sun and one for the moon.
What are calendars?
A piece of land almost entirely surrounded by water and attached to a larger land mass.
What is a peninsula?
Important reasons the Inca needed network of roads.
What is they used the roads to send and recieve messages, no written language so it was the only way for governors to communicate?
A main water source in the Yucatan Penisula.
What are cenotes?
How the Aztec were able to expand their empire.
What is they formed an alliance with other city/states and conquered neighboring cities?
These could not have been built without the use of math and engineering.
What are the pyramids?
Produced, living or existing naturally in a particular area.
What is indigenous?
The key causes of the decline of the Inca Empire.
What is an quarrel between two brothers causing a civil war and diseases brought by the Spanish?
Today the decendants of the Maya live in these five countries.
What is Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador?
Reasons the Aztec civilization fell rapidly.
What is Cortez found allies in the neighboring city/states and smallpox brough by Cortez?
Reasons the Maya civilization crumbled.
What is possible drought, people revolted, rulers too controlling, or an epidemic?