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The main food & most important crop of the Mayas was corn or ?

What is maize?

The Mayas used this form of signs and symbols as part of their writing system

What is known as hieroglyphics?

Two great cities of the Mayan Empire?

What are Copan and Tikal?

In 1325, Aztecs built this capitol city, on a floating island. It is now known as Mexico City

What is Tenochtitlan? ( teh nawch tee tlahn )

Aztecs built a great civilization in this area of Middle America

What is the Valley of Mexico?

A knotted string used by the Incas, as a method of keeping records

What is a quipu?

One of the many great accomplishments of the Incas, was this method of carrying water over hundreds of miles to dry land

What is an aqueduct?

The Incan civilization was located on which coast of South America?

What is the west coast or the Pacific coast?

In order to bring news of its empire, from town to town, the Incan government had runners and over 2,000 miles of this

What are roads?

Two great accomplishments of the Incan Empire

What are using aqueducts and building roads?

The Line of Demarcation was an imaginary line which decided control of territory of 2 European countries

What are Spain and Portugal?

When Cortes defeated the Aztecs, he did not have as many soldiers, but he did have other factors on his side

What are disease, horses, superior weapons and other Native Americans?

In 1494, the Treaty of Tordesillas set a Line of Demarcation to settle trade rights for Spain, to its west, and Portugal to its east. This was in what L A country?

What is Brazil?

Spain divided its territory into provinces. 2 of the most important were called?

What are Peru and New Spain?

The Spanish not only brought horses and superior weapons, they attacked from within with this form of unintentional germ warfare

What is a variety of diseases?

As a result of the Treaty of Tordesillas, Brazil became a colony of this European country

What is Portugal?

Today, the Valley of Mexico is where this great empire once stood

What is the Aztec Empire?

Describe the appearance and purpose of a quipu

A knotted string used by the Incas, as a method of keeping records

A type of communication used by Mayan and Aztec Empires

What are hieroglyphics?

Copan and Tikal were cities of this great empire

What is the Mayan Empire?

The best way to complete an essay answer

What is write a concluding sentence which wraps up your thought?

The Aztecs greatly outnumbered the Spanish. However, they traveled easier on this animal

What are horses?

When writing an essay, before starting a new idea or sentence, it is a good idea to do this.

What is complete the thought or sentence that was started?

The Aztec nation greatly outnumbered the Spanish army, but the Spanish were superior in this area of warfare

What was the use of guns, cannons and armor?

True/False Begin an essay answer by reversing the question; making it the introductory sentence

What is true?