Mayan, Inca, Aztec Civilizations

Question 1

Who oversaw education and medicine in the Aztec empire?

Accepted Answer

Priests

Question 2

How do these cultures affect us today?

Accepted Answer

IDK, I'll study the Classroom document from yesterday, Nick, we used our research skills to demonstrate that before, Check our class assignment on Google Classroom Nick., Hey Nick, we talked about that the last two days.

Question 3

What was the main reason all three societies engaged in human sacrifice

Accepted Answer

To honor the gods in exchange for protection and good crops

Question 4

What was the Capital of the Aztec Empire

Accepted Answer

Tenochtitlan

Question 5

What innovative farming technology did the Inca invent?

Accepted Answer

Terrace Farming

Question 6

What destroyed the Aztec Empire?

Accepted Answer

The Spanish, Lack of immunity to European Disease, Small Pox, Lack of Aztec leadership after the death of Montezuma

Question 7

Why did the Mayan Civilization fall?

Accepted Answer

Environmental Factors, Famine

Question 8

What did the Mayans have that the Inca didn't?

Accepted Answer

Written Language

Question 9

In what modern day countries did the Inca inhabit?

Accepted Answer

Argentina, Peru, Chile

Question 10

True or False: The Mayan Civilization was an Empire.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 11

Who was Pachacuti?

Accepted Answer

Successful Incan king that solidified the empire

Question 12

Who is Montezuma?

Accepted Answer

Aztec Emperor that was arrested and executed

Question 13

Who ran the government of the Aztec Empire

Accepted Answer

Nobles

Question 14

What terrain did the Inca live in?

Accepted Answer

Mountains

Question 15

In what terrain did the Mayans live, even learning to farm through the slash and burn method?

Accepted Answer

Rain forest

Question 16

What was the largest social class in the Aztec Empire?

Accepted Answer

Farmers

Question 17

What major invention did the Inca come up with that the Mayans and Aztecs didn't?

Accepted Answer

Roadway systems leading back to the Capital

Question 18

In what modern day country did the Aztec inhabit?

Accepted Answer

Mexico

Question 19

How did the Incan Empire fall?

Accepted Answer

A civil war left them weak, A successful Spanish Invasion

Question 20

Why was there a genocide of Native Mayans in 1980's Guatemala?

Accepted Answer

U.S. Supported Military Dictatorship ordered it, The Mayans were accused of being communist terrorist groups

Question 21

Who was Francisco Pizarro?

Accepted Answer

Leader of the Spanish Conquistadors, The individual that planned the end of the Incan Empire

Question 22

Who was Hernan Cortes?

Accepted Answer

Spanish Conquistador that destroyed the Aztecs, A big ole meanie in today's standards

Question 23

Who was Atahaulpa?

Accepted Answer

Incan King imprisoned by the Spanish, later executed, Participated in the Incan Civil War

Question 24

Which practice was used by the three civilizations, but played the biggest role for the Aztecs?

Accepted Answer

Sacrifice

Question 25

In what modern day countries did the Ancient Mayans settle in?

Accepted Answer

Mexico, Guatemala, Belize

Question 26

What were most Mayan weapons made from?

Accepted Answer

Obsidian, Wood, Dragon Glass

Question 27

Who was the religious and political leader of the Maya?

Accepted Answer

The King

Mayan, Inca, Aztec Civilizations

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