Americas Vocabulary Quiz

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  1. 4. The Aztec capital city built on an island in Lake Texoco in the Valley of Mexico
  2. 8. A Mesoamerican civilization that settled in the Valley of Mexico and became a vast empire that flourished from 1428 to 1519 A.D.
  3. 10. A system of bringing water to a dry place in order to grow crops.
  4. 12. A great empire in the Andes Mountains of South America that arose in the 1400s and lasted until 1532.
  5. 13. Inca emperor who was held hostage by the Spaniards and murdered for not converting to Christianity.
  6. 14. Large settlements where groups of Aztecs lived.
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  1. 1. Cultivation of the soil for crops for food; farming
  2. 2. Spanish conquistador who arrived in Peru in 1532 and conquered the Incan Empire by 1535.
  3. 3. “Middle America,” the region extending from modern-day Mexico through Central America
  4. 5. The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
  5. 6. The capital city of the Inca Empire
  6. 7. Aztecs’ floating gardens – artificial islands created for farming purposes in the middle of a lake (Texcoco).
  7. 9. A Mesoamerican civilization on the Yucatan Peninsula that lasted from about 2000 B.C. to 1500 A.D.
  8. 11. The earliest known civilization in Mesoamerica about 3000 years ago who influenced the Mayans and Aztecs .
  9. 15. A South American animal that provided food, clothing, and transportation to the people of the Inca civilization.