The Mayans
The Aztecs
The Incas
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Another Name for corn
Maize
Payment from conquered peoples.
What is Tribute?
How did the Mayans try to please their gods?
What was they offered blood to the gods by piercing themselves or by offering human sacrifices?
He was depicted as the feathered serpent
Who is Quetzalcoatl?
What advancements did the Mayans make in astronomy?
What were they built observatories, the developed a calendar, and they also determined the length of a year?
Raised roads across water or wet ground.
What are causeways?
A Spanish conqueror?
What was a conquistador?
Artificial islands made of earth piled on reed mats that were used for farming.
What are Chinampas?
Why was Montezuma II too trusting to Cortes & his men?
Because of his armor, strange animals (horses), they came from the horizon, prophets had mentioned how Quetzalcoatl was going to return in the year 1519 the same year Cortés arrived .
Even though Cortes was outnumbered, explain how he & his men were able to conquer the mighty Aztec Empire?
What was better Spanish weapons (armor, cannon, and sword), Aztecs were terrified of their horses, & the Spanish unknowingly spread small pox that eradicated the Aztecs.
The Incas were known for their stonework The Incas were known for their stonework. What is another name for it called?
What is Masonry?
The founder of the Incan empire?
Who was Pachacuti?
What was the primary purpose of the Incan road system?
What was to allow armies and news to move rapidly throughout the empire.
Explain how the Incas were able to survive on the rugged terrain that they lived on?
They were able to build terrace (step) farms on the mountains, they were able to build storage houses for grain, their government was highly organized & controlled their people very easily.
The reason for The decline of the Inca
What was internal problems (civil war had weakened the empire), their leader Atahualpa was captured, Spanish advantage with guns, armor, & horses, as well as disease.
Tlacopan, Texcoco, and Aztecs
What was Triple Alliance?
followed by the Incans was called what? A system of labor tax followed by the Incans was called what?
What was Mita?
The area that stretches South from central Mexico to Honduras.
What is Mesoamerica?
How did the Aztec people travel throughout Tenochtitlan?
What was by boat?
I was the Aztec emperor who cautiously welcomed the conquistadors into the city?
Who was Montezuma II?
Capital of the Aztec Empire?
What was Tenochtitlan?
Capital of Incan Empire?
What was Cuzco?
Volcanic glass
What was Obsidian?
American civilization who People of the first American civilization who influenced the Maya.
Who were the Olmecs? (located on Mexican Gulf Coast)
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What civilization ruled an area that included the Andes Mountains?
Who were the Incas?
This achievement played an important role in Mesoamerica both agriculturally and religiously
What is the production of corn?
This was a common theme among the Aztec, Maya, and Inca
What are religious ceremonies?
What has ears but can't hear?
What is corn?
Conquered tribes resented the Aztec people and even joined the Spanish because Aztecs were famous for this.
What is using conquered people for human sacrifices?
The straight that Connected Asia and the Americas during the last ice age
What is Berengia?
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