Apocalypto
Cultures
Geography
Important People
Weapons of Conquest
100
Blue
What is the color the prisoners were painted in Apocalypto to indicate that they were to be sacrificed.
100
Catholicism
What is the religion of the Spanish explorers?
100
Mesoamerica
What were South America and Central America called?
100
Hernan Cortes
He was called the Conqueror and Captain Governor of New Spain, Tenochtitlan.
100
Disease
What was one form of natural weapon that the Spanish used on the Aztec to assist in conquering them?
200
A hole/cave
What is the place that Jaguar Paw put his wife and son to save them from being captured?
200
Aztec Empire
What is the empire created by the takeover of smaller indigenous tribes in the Tenochtitlan area.
200
Yucatan Peninsula
What is the name of the place Hernan Cortes was sent to explore from Cuba?
200
Amerigo Vespucci
What is the name of the man that the "Americas" is named for?
200
Smallpox
Which disease killed 25 out of 26 indigenous people during this period?
300
Spaniards
What did Jaguar Paw see on the beach while running from the Mayan warriors?
300
Mexico City
What is the name of the place that sits where Tenochtitlan used to be?
300
Spain
Where did Hernan Cortes return to in 1528?
300
Quetzalcoatl
What God did Montezuma believe Hernan Cortes to represent when they first met?
300
Cannon
What type of weapon fired 8 lb iron projectiles at its enemy that the Spainsh used to Conquer and destroy the Aztec Empire?
400
We have satisfied his thirst.
What did the High Priest say to the people during the eclipse?
400
Kivas
What is the name of the room used for religious ceremonies by Indigenous people?
400
Mayan
What is the name of the civilization that was located mostly on the Yucatan Peninsula that excelled in engineering, mathematics and astronomy? Their calendar tells us so.
400
the Sun
Huitzilopochtli is the Aztec God of War and what else?
400
Horse
What is the name of the animal that the Spanish rode into Tenochtitlan on that was foreign to the indigenous people.
500
The Darkness of day and the man who runs with Jaguars
What two (2) things does the little girl warn the Mayan warriors about?
500
Encomienda/encomenderos
What is the name of the reward system given to members of Spanish Society in which they could make the laws?
500
Beringia
What is the name of the land mass from Eastern Russia into Alaska and beyond that provides the scientific explanation for how the North American continent became populated? Hint: it is no longer there.
500
Diego Velasquez
What is the name of the Spanish Governor who sent Hernan Cortes to the Yucatan Peninsula?
500
Gunpowder
What did the Spanish use to get the cannon balls to fire that was also foreign to the indigenous Aztec?