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Incas, Aztecs, and Maya Quiz Bowl
Incas, Aztecs, and Maya Quiz Bowl
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At the top of the society was the all-powerful ruler known as the Great Speaker.
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Europeans brought smallpox and other new diseases that killed millions of the native people.
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Who had the capital city named Tenochtitlan?
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They believed they lived in the time of the fifth sun.
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More than 6 million people today live in rural areas of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize.
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Who saw an eagle atop a prickly pear cactus eating a snake?
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The heart of their civilization was the tropical rain forest.
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They left permanent records about their lives in hieroglyphs-pictures or symbols.
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A favorite activity for kids was Pok-ol-pok.
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They built hanging bridges across mountain gorges and terraced hillsides to grow crops.
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They used crop rotation to get more than one harvest each year.
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In remote villages, houses are the same thatched roof dwellings with lime-plastered stone.
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They burned dry brush before summer rains. Then with sticks they planted seeds in shallow holes
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The largest empire to exist in the Americas at one time belonged to who?
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They developed a messaging system six hundred years before email.
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Nobles could wear gold ornaments, fancy jewelry, capes with bright feathers, and cotton clothes
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They made books called codices from a long strip of paper made from the bark of a wild fig tree
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Pizarro captured Atahualpa and demanded a ransom of gold or silver for this ruler.
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Tenochtitlan means "Place of the Prickly pear."
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In one terrible moment, de Landa wiped out the literature of an entire culture!
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The term ______ has come to stand for all the people of the empire.
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Cenotes provided an essential source of water for people in the river-starved northern Yucatan.
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During the first century of Spanish rule, the Indian population of Peru fell by 80 percent.
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Some boys and girls were specially trained as professional dancers.
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They lived high in the Andes Mountains.
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Their first home was Aztlan.
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The Spanish made slaves of many of the Indian peoples.
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Chuno can last for more than a year and is eaten by armies as they marched off to war.
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A staple of the Andean diet, potatoes are one of the few crops that can handle frequent frost.
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Quetzalcoatl the feathered serpent, was the god of music, education, farming, and art.
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Who were the Children of the Sun?
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Human sacrifices were performed.
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We know about this group because of their glyphs.
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A farming technique called Milpa.
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The keepers of the Quipu were royal accountants.
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The solar calendar was 365 days long and the sacred almanac was 260 days long.
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Many villagers still speak Quechua.
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They burned llama dung as fuel.
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Who made Chinampas for farming?
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They cherish their own culture and Values.
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Montezuma meets Cortes.
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Using bronze chisels and stone hammers, they fitted together enormous blocks of stone.
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Finally, at age 13 or 14, a boy chose a permanent name as part of a coming-of-age ceremony.
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They claimed their ruler was the Son of the Sun.
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He traveled on a stretcher carried by servants.
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They wore animal- skin clothing and used flint-tipped spears.
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Mexican men dressed like birds spiral on ropes to the ground from the top of a huge pole.
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Who played the ball game tlachtli?
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They used the llama to carry supplies up and down winding mountain paths.
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They had two separate calendars- A solar calendar and a sacred calendar.
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Inti
was the name of their Sun God who was the giver of heat and light.
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In Guatemala, the ancient calendar is still used to mark the annual ceremonial cycle.
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Who had a city in the middle of Lake Texcoco?
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The first of the great rulers was Pachacuti, his name meant " he who transforms the earth".
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They plotted the movements of the sun, moon, and Venus.
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A favorite drink of the rich was xocatl , a bitter-tasting drink made from the cacao bean.
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A soldier hoped to enter the elite fighting forces known as Jaguar or Eagle warriors.
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12-year-old Pacal came to the throne in the town of Palenque in 615 AD. He rained for 68 years.
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They lived in or near their capital city Cuzco in present-day Peru.
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Major moments: Birth, naming, marriage, and death had their traditional observances.
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Black Howler monkeys were considered sacred in what group? They served as gods of writing.
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Scribes recorded details about life on accordion-folded books.
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Treated their leader almost like a god.
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Machu Picchu, the best-preserved site situated a mile and a half above sea level.
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Most soldiers were farmers called to fight as needed and then returned home.
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