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Aztecs Maya and Inca
Aztecs Maya and Inca / 6th Social Studies Horgan
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the most important crop to the Mayas? | Maize |
| This Spanish explorer and his army conquered the Incan Empire. | Pizzaro |
| The Mayas were the first to use this number. | Zero |
| This was the great island city of the Aztecs. | Tenochtitlan |
| What was the most important food in the Incan diet? | Potatoes |
| Who was the last great emperor of the Aztecs? | Montezuma |
| What is the title given to the Incan ruler? | Sapa Inca |
| What is the social class of honored men and relatives of the emperor? | Nobles |
| What is the social class of farmers, herdsmen, and artisans? | commoners |
| What is a tax called in the form of goods and services? | Mit'a |
| What kind of farming is the method of creating flat areas of land on a mountainside for growing crops? | Terrace |
| What was the capital city of the Incas? | Cuzco |
| What animals were domesticated by the Incas ? | Llamas and Alpacas |
| What were built to connect the many parts of the Incan Empire? | Roads |
| These civilizations developed writing systems and calendars. | Aztecs and Mayans |
| Which city was “lost” for 400 years? | Machu Picchu |
| What the Aztecs called their emperor? | Huey Tlatoani |
| These people were usually captured in war or bought from other groups of people. | slaves |
| What did Aztec leaders pay to the emperor? | tribute |
| Who was a Spanish explorer who arrived on the coast of Mexico in 1519? | Cortez |
| What was established to govern the early Aztecs? | tribal council |
| Which members of this social class owned their own land? | noble |
| Most of the Aztec people belonged to this social class. | (farmers) commoners |
| Aztec warriors belonged to which social class? | Nobles |
| What linked the Aztec capital city to the mainland? | causeways |
| These were called “floating gardens.” | chinampas |
| This is the most famous Aztec sculpture. | Calendar Stone |
| These were built as a place to bury kings and to observe the stars. | Pyramids |
| The Mayas studied this science, which helped in developing calendars. | astronomy |
| This calendar has 260 days. | Tzolkin by Maya |
| This calendar has 365 days | Haab by Aztec |
| This observatory was used to predict the equinox. | El Caracol, located at the Mayan city of Chichen Itza, is an ancient, round observatory built around 906 CE |
| A serpent appears to crawl down the steps of which pyramid at an equinox ? | Kukulcan |
| The Mayan math system is made up of how many number of symbols? | 3 |
| The Mayas thought which planet was more important than the sun? | Venus |
| This occurs when the Earth, sun, and moon are in a nearly straight line. | Eclipse |
| What did the Inca, Maya, and Aztec were major pre-Columbian American civilizations that established | large-scale agriculture, massive monumental architecture, and complex, polytheistic religions. |
| the Aztec and Maya inhabited Mesoamerica | Mexico / Central America |
| Where did the Inca operated a tightly controlled, centralized empire ? | Andes of South America |
| The Aztec had a powerful emperor that | collected tribute. |
| The Maya functioned as independent | city-states |
| Agriculture: Aztecs used | chinampas (floating gardens |
| Agriculture: Incas used | terrace farming. |
| Agriculture: Maya utilized | slash-and-burn techniques. |
| The Inca used the ___________for record-keeping instead of writing and built extensive road networks. | quipu (knotted strings) for record-keeping instead of writing |
| The Maya and Aztecs used _______and developed advanced, similar calendars. | hieroglyphic writing systems |
| All three were polytheistic and practiced | human sacrifice |
| All three developed skilled artistry (gold/silver for Inca/Aztec), and fell to ________________. | to Spanish conquest in the 16th century |
| Economy: The Inca did not have a large-scale market system; rather, it was a ______________________. | a state-controlled, planned economy. |
| Economy: The Aztecs and Maya had | vibrant, large-scale trade networks and marketplaces. |
| Who lived on mountains.? | The Inca |
| Who lived mostly in rainforests? | The Maya |
| Who lived in a high-altitude, lake-filled valley? | The Aztecs in the Andes Mountains |
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