Unit 1 SS Review

What is this map element called?

The Spanish explorers were so nice to the indigenous people they encountered.

Choose the answer that best describes the people at the bottom of the Inca Empire hierarchy who did the most work.

Equator: an imaginary line that goes around the middle of Earth, dividing it into the Northern & Southern hemisphere.

The bigger the headdress, the more important you were.

What did the Inca build to help bring water to their crops?

In the book, Grandma's Chocolate, we learned cacao seeds were so valuable to the Maya that it was even used as _______.

Only wealthy Incas would eat llama meat.

In the book we read about the Spanish explorers discovering the New World, which Sapa Inca did they capture?

Nobody in Peru today still uses the same weaving techniques as the ancient Inca for clothes, blankets, ropes, & baskets.

What is the most important thing about a Democracy form of government?

What was the name of the sacred place that Pachacuti built high in the Andes Mountains outside of Cuzco?

What is the name of the capital city of the Inca?

Chasquis (CHAH-skis) would run from place to place delivering __________________.

Who in the Maya civilization would NOT have worn an elaborate headdress?

All children of the Inca and the Maya went to school.

Where did the Maya live?

The Maya would make beautifully colored huipils and elaborately decorated tapestries.

What is the title of the map below?

What amazing thing did the Inca build thousands of miles of to help them communicate?

What did the Incas build to help them grow crops on the side of mountains?

The Inca grew many crops such as corn, quinoa, and over 200 different kinds of potatoes.

What did the Inca use quipus (kee-poos) for?

An important element of a map that shows cardinal directions and helps you to find places on a map is called a ________.

The Incas were skilled builders.

How did the Maya provide nutrients to the soil and crops?

Tikal was the name of the royal retreat that the Inca built high in the Andes Mountains.

Who were the indigenous people of South America that ruled over millions of people?

What did the Inca call their ruler who they also believed was an ancestor of the Sun God, Inti?

The driver is trying to get to the bakery with the star. Which two directions will they need to drive to get there?

Both the Maya and the Inca studied the movement of the sun, moon, planets, and stars.

The Maya used hieroglyphics (picture writing) and stelae as a form of written language.

The Inca did not have a form of written language.

Which animal did the Inca rely on for their wool for clothing?

On which continent did the Inca live?

The Spanish explorers were originally looking for gold and riches when they discovered the New World.

The Maya were one of the first people to make _________ using cacao seeds.

Name the three oceans that border North America?

Anyone in the Inca Empire could use the roads freely.

Both the Inca and the Maya grew corn.

Today, people in Central America still use this tool called a _________ just like the Maya.

The Inca used a calendar and number system.