Unit 3 Maya, Aztec & Inca Amplify: Chapter 7-9

_________ was the Inca capital.

• Amazon

• Cuzco

• Tenochtitlan

• Moctezuma

The Inca adapted to their environment by:

• building chinampas and aqueducts

• creating step terraces and using the slash and burn techniques

• using slash and burn techniques and building chinampas

• building chinampas and creating step terraces

The Inca empire was located:

• present-day Mexico

• Mesoamerica

• present-day South America

What factors contributed to the Inca Empire becoming the largest pre-Columbian empire?

• built gardens called chinampas from the lake bed where a variety of crops could be grown; creating habitable land allowed the city to grow in size

• The Sapa Inca conquered other groups, making the empire larger and more powerful; commoners cultivated crops, the government had a tribute system, and the empire had an advanced road system, all contributing to the wealth and success of the empire.

• writing, religion, and art flourished.

What were the key causes of the decline of the powerful Inca Empire?

• a combination of reasons: climate, growing too fast, leadership, Spanish conquering and weaponry

• city-states became his allies; the Spanish brought deadly European diseases with them, which killed thousands of people.

• Fighting between royal brothers Atahualpa and Huascar and civil war had weakened the Inca Empire. Then Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro and his men arrived, bringing with them European diseases. The diseases spread, killing 40 percent of the Inca population.

How did the Aztec and Inca explain the creation of their land and people?

• they dressed in feathers to create Earth; created noisemakers, and people from clay, wood, and corn

• one had The Five Suns the other created beings over time

What does killed two birds with one stone mean?

• in two places at once

• served two purposes at once

• agreed to something at the same time

• in the same place at the same time

What does at the eleventh hour mean?

• at just the right time

• when it was already too late

• at the latest possible moment

• when it was really early

According to a myth passed down among the Aztec, one of their gods told them that they would know that they had found the perfect place to settle when they saw:

• a large lake with several small islands

• a hawk circling over a lake

• aqueducts and causeways

• an eagle sitting on a cactus, holding a snake

The Maya, Aztec, and Inca had the following things in common:

• swamplands and underwater wells

• multiple gods and religious ceremonies

• llamas and toucans

• metal tools and pulleys