Aztec/Inca Empire and Columbian Exchange

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What continent was the Inca Empire located on?

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South America

Front

What body of water was to the west of the Inca empire?

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Pacific Ocean

Front

What mountain range ran throughout the Inca Empire?

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Andes Mountains

Front

Which of these was NOT an adaptation to the environment practiced by the Inca?
Terrace farming, Eating seafood, Domestication of llamas, Eating jungle food

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Eating jungle food

Front

What major accomplishment was attributed to the Inca? Options: Extensive road system, Advancements in calculus, Discovery of the heliocentric theory, First circumnavigation of the globe

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Extensive road system

Front

How did historians learn about people before written records?

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Both artifacts and oral history

Front

How did the indigenous people of the Americas get here in the first place?

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They walked across the Bearing Strait

Front

The region that encompasses mid and southern Mexico and the northern part of Central America is known as

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Mesoamerica

Front

Why did the Aztecs settle on a lake?

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Because of an eagle on a cactus in the lake

Front

What did the Aztecs build to help them with living and agricultural space in Tenochtitlan?

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Chinampas