Question | Answer |
Which civilization was located in the Mexican and Central American rain forest (Yucatan Peninsula)? | Maya |
What was the Mayan major city? | Chichén Itzá |
What kind of religion did all three civilizations have? | polytheistic |
Which civilization was located in central Mexico? | Aztec |
What was the Aztec major city? | Tenochtitlan |
Which civilization was located in the Andes Mountains of South America? | Inca |
What was an Inca major city? | Machu Picchu |
Mayans developed what kind of calendar? | 365-day calendar |
Incas kept records using what? | quipu (system of knotted strings) |
Incas built vast networks of ______. | roads |
How was the Mayan government set up? | system of city-states, each ruled by a king |
How was the Aztec government set up? | ruled by an emperor with absolute power |
How was the Inca government set up? | ruled by an emperor with absolute power |
What type of language/system of writing did the Mayans develop? | hieroglyphs |
What is the name of the pyramid at Chichén Itzá? | "El Castillo" |
Which Spanish conquistador destroyed the Aztecs? | Hernan Cortes |
What disease did the Spanish bring with them to the Americas that killed a lot of the natives? | smallpox |
What system did the Incas use for the agriculture? | terraced farming |
What three things caused the downfall of the Aztec Empire? | disease, Spanish conquistadors, human sacrifices |
What kind of pyramids did the Mayans build? | step pyramids |
Who was king of the Aztecs when the Spanish arrived? | Montezuma II |
The Mayans were (probably) the oldest civilization in the world to have this concept: | zero |
What purpose did the Mayan pyramids have? | temples |
What modern city is on the site of Tenochtitlan? | Mexico City |
In what modern country is Machu Picchu? | Peru |
What is the mountain range in the Inca Empire? | Andes |
What type of farming did they use in the Aztec Empire? | Chinampa farming |