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Study Guide Module 8
Questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What made it difficult for modern-day scholars to have a fuller understanding of Maya civilization? | Most Mayas books were destroyed by the spanish |
| What weakened the Inca empire before the arrival of the Spanish? | Civil war |
| The Spanish destroyed what civilizations? | Inca and aztec |
| How did Incas pay their taxes? | By performing labor for the central government |
| What are raised roads across water or wet ground? | Causeways |
| What is the official language of the Inca? | Quechua |
| Why did the Inca carve terraces into hillsides? | To create a place to grow cops |
| The formal region of Latin America spans 7,000 miles in what directions? | Both the north and south american continents |
| Which of these groups did not practice human sacrifice? | Maya |
| What two major mountain ranges are in Latin America ? | Andes and Sierra Madre |
| What Bodies of water border Latin America? | Atlantic, Pacific, Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico (the arctic does not) |
| What rivers empty into the Atlantic? | Piranha, Orinoco, Amazon, and Xingu but the Mississippi River does not. |
| Which of these groups had observatories? | Maya |
| Which of these groups had a writing system that historians could not interpret? | Olmec |
| Which of these groups had no written history until the Spanish arrived? | Inca |
| Which of these built their capital on an island? | Aztec |
| Which of these had a different class system from the rest? | Inca |
| Which of these groups would not have been found in Mesoamerica? | Inca |
| Which of these groups used chinampas? | Aztec |
| Which of these groups created a sophisticated 365-day calendar? | Maya |
| Which of these groups used the mito? | Maya |
| Tenochtitlan was built on an island in what lake? | Lake Texcoco |
| Palenque was a city built by what group of Native Americans? | Inca |
| What is the longest river in South America? | Amazon |
| Mexico is on the continent of | North America |
| Latin America is a | Formal Region |
| ________ captured Tenochtitlan and built Mexico City over it. | Cortes |
| The Caribbean borders Latin America to its_____ | East |
| Warriors were very important to the_______because they needed prisoners to use for human sacrifices. | Inca |
| The present-day capital of Peru is ______- | Lima |
| ___________captured the Inca empire. | Pizzaro |
| Many people in Mesoamerica died at the hands of the | conquistadors |
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