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Aztec & Mayan Empire. Incan Empire. Latin American Independence. Past to Present. European Conquest. Vocabulary. 1pt. 1 pt. 1 pt. 1pt. 1 pt. 2 pt. 2 pt. 2pt. 2pt. 2 pt. 3 pt. 3 pt. 3 pt. 3 pt. 3 pt. 4 pt. 4 pt. 4pt. 4 pt. 4pt. 5pt. 5 pt. 5 pt. 5 pt. 5 pt. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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 Incas’ method of
keeping count of its population
What is a census?
The Incan civilization was
located on which coast of South
America?
What is the west coast or the
Pacific coast?
Today, descendants of the Incas live
high in the Andes and they speak
What is Quechua?
(KECH wuh)
People of Spanish and Native
American descent
What is a mestizo?
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?
A similarity shared by the
Aztec and Incan people
What is being conquered by the Spanish?
Haiti was inspired towards
independence by two other
revolutions of note
What were the American
Revolution and the people’s uprising in
France?
Spain divided its territory into
provinces. 2 of the most important
were called?
What are Peru
and
New Spain?
Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the
rebellion which won the first independence of this Latin American
country?
What is Haiti?
Simon Bolivar help lead the fight for independence of
Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama,
known as?
What is the
Gran Colombia?
Strict rulers who were concerned
mostly with getting rich and holding
power
What is a caudillo?
(kaw dee yoh)
Trade between Mexico, Canada and
the United States was made easier due
to this agreement?
What is NAFTA?
North American Free Trade Agreement
The cause of economic hard
times in the 1980s when oil prices
went up
What is Latin American countries
borrowed money from wealthy
countries?
Recently Latin American countries
have tried to improve their economies by
forming what?
What are trade organizations?
True/False
Foreign countries often controlled the economies of Latin
American Countries
What is true?
What has become of Aztec
chinampas in today’s world?
What is
farmers use it as farmland ?