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Aztec Empire
Mayan Empire
Incan Empire
Vocabulary Review
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In 1325, Aztecs built their capitol city,
Tenochtitlan, on a floating island, because of
this advice given to their leader
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What is being told by their god to build their
city on lake where they find an eagle perched on
a cactus eating a snake?
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The Aztec people lived in Mexico, but hundreds of
years earlier another empire lived in Mexico
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What was the Mayan Empire? The Mayan Empire was
first and lasted the longest when compared to
both the Aztec and Incan Empires.
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A similarity shared by the Aztec and Incan people
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What is being conquered by the Spanish?
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Vocabulary Review Cortez the conquistador made
deals to support and be friends with the Aztec
Empires neighboring tribes. The Spanish and
Native Americans agreed to work together for a
common goal.
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What is an alliance? In this case the Spanish and
Native Americans were allies.
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Reasons the Aztec nation fell
The Aztec people were not ready for the Spanish,
who had guns, cannons, horses and armor. There
were two other reasons. One had to do with
illness and the other had to do with their
treatment of neighboring tribes.
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A. What was not being peaceful with neighboring
tribes? The Aztec are remembered for being
fierce and war like with their neighboring
tribes. Often taking the enemy as slaves or for
use in human sacrifice. B. What was not having
immunity against diseases brought over by the
Spanish, especially smallpox.
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True/False The Mayan civilization followed the
Aztecs and did not last as long
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What is false? The Mayan civilization came first
and lasted much, much longer.
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Daily Double

• Of the 3 listed, which was not an achievement of
  the Mayan people
• Building Pyramids
• Inventing the wheel
• Developing an accurate calendar

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What is inventing the wheel?
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The reason that the end of the Aztec and Incan
Empires is different than the end of the Mayan
Civilization
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What is the Aztec and Incan were conquered by the
Spanish conquistadors?
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• Of the 3 listed, which was not an achievement of
  the Mayan people
• Developing an accurate calendar
• Building Pyramids
• Defeating the Spanish

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What is defeating the Spanish?
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One main reason for the end of the Mayan
Civilization
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What is trusting and believing too heavily in
their king?
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One of the many great accomplishments of the
Incas, was this method of carrying water over
hundreds of miles to dry land
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What is an aqueduct?
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The Incas method of keeping count of its
population
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What is a census?
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Two facts about the Incan civilizations size and
location
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What is the Incan Empire was the largest of the 3
empires? AND It stretched almost the entire
west coast of South America
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A knotted string used by the Incas, as a method
of keeping records
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What is a quipu?
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Incan accomplishments include the following
using aqueducts, developing terrace farming along
the side of the Andes, assisting the elderly and
sick, creating over 14,000 miles of ______ and
_____, and building ______________ _________
________
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What were 14,000 miles of roads and bridges and
earthquake proof buildings?
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The Aztec and Incan are like ancient Greece and
Rome, in that they have one ruler or government
ruling many groups of people.
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What is an empire?
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The Aztec and Mayas used this form of signs and
symbols as part of their writing system
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What is hieroglyphics?
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A war fought between two groups within one
nation or tribe
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What is a Civil War?
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Cortez is an example of this type of Spanish
soldier who conquered Aztec and Incan Empires
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What is a conquistador?
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After the Spanish were done with their alliances
with the Native Americans, they betrayed or ?
their trust by enslaving them
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What is exploited?
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Reasons why the Mayas could be considered the
most impressive of the three empires studied in
this unit For this Jeopardy game have at least
three of the examples given in the answer which
follows. On the test, you will need all of the
examples to get full credit, plus any reason the
other empires werent as impressive.
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What was
-Their empire was first and lasted the longest,
more than twice as long as the other two empires
we studied -They built great cities which were
religious, economic and cultural centers of the
day -They were great scientists studying the
planets and stars, creating two calendars, one
was a daily calendar and one for their
celebrations/holidays -They were great
mathematicians, being one of the first to include
the value and having a symbol for zero -They
built great pyramids and temples -They had their
own written language, hieroglyphics
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The importance of the Incans having over 14,000
miles of road in maintaining a successful empire
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What are the following?
-the roads allowed for quick travel of the Incan
army -the roads allowed a series of runners who
were messengers to travel 250 miles a day with
news of the empire -the roads allowed for safe
travel of trade caravans -the roads allowed for
taking census and collecting taxes for the
government
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Reasons why the Aztec could be considered the
most impressive of the three empires studied in
this unit For this Jeopardy game have at least
three of the examples given in the answer which
follows. On the test, you will need all of the
examples to get full credit, plus any reason the
other empires werent as impressive.
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What is ?
-They built a magnificent city on a lake -They
were master farmers creating chinampas, floating
gardens -They used artificial irrigation for
their farming -They used a written language,
hieroglyphics -They used a daily calendar based
on the Mayan calendar -Their scientists were able
to predict eclipses and movement of the
planets -Their city of Tenochtitlan was like NYC
of today with its culture, zoos, museums,
temples, wide streets and busy markets selling
food jewelry made of silver and gold -Their
fierce army protected merchants as they traveled
through the empire creating an economy -Their
doctors made over 1,000 medicines from plants and
herbs However, they were brutal, often enslaving
their enemies or using them for human sacrifice
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The theory of the Mayan demise, (ending of their
empire), as the Spanish did not defeat them.
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What are the following reasons ?
-they had a strong belief in their god and its
messenger, the king -when crop failure came due
to drought and soil erosion, they looked to the
king for answers, for help -the kings response
was to increase human sacrifice, give more blood
of his people to please the gods -surprisingly,
it didnt work. Unrest occurred within the Mayan
empire, resulting in fighting and lack of faith
in their leader -as time passed, the people felt
it might be easier to live on their own and they
moved out to surrounding jungles, where
descendants still live today
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Reasons why the Incans could be considered the
most impressive of the three empires studied in
this unit For this Jeopardy game have at least
three of the examples given in the answer which
follows. On the test, you will need all of the
examples to get full credit, plus any reason the
other empires werent as impressive.
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What was?
-They had the largest empire along the Andes
coast of South America -They built over 14,000
miles of roads and bridges -They built earthquake
proof buildings without using metal tools or
cement/concrete -They built aqueducts which
brought water hundreds of miles to dry land -They
kept careful, organized records by taking an
annual census and thus taxing appropriately -Their
government helped the elderly, sick and poor
from the collected taxes. It organized which
villagers would work on roads, buildings, and
bridges -They used quipus to keep records
mathematically -They used runners who kept the
empire informed daily running over 250 miles,
from town to town
However, they did
not have a written language or money as we know
either.