Covers the rise of the Aztec and Incan Empires, the growth and role of cities in the Americas, and interregional trade networs/economic systems in the Americas.
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| 96298261 | Toltecs | The ______ emerged at the end of the troubled ninth and early tenth centuries as the dominant culture in much of central Mexico, but by the year 1175 could no longer suppress civil strife between ethnic groups nor could they defend against the nomadic invaders from northwest Mexico. | 0 | |
| 96298262 | Tula | The Toltecs's capital city, _____, grew to support a population of more than 60,000 due to irrigation from the nearby river which allowed its people to grow crops of beans, maize, peppers, tomatoes, chilies, and cotton. | 1 | |
| 96298263 | Compact Regional Empire | Their large army helped the Toltecs build a _____ supported by subject people and their tribute. | 2 | |
| 96298264 | Mexica | The _____ arrived in central Mexico about the middle of the thirtheenth century and were known as "disorderly" for kidnapping women and seizing lands already cultivated by other groups. These people seemed constantly on the move, as their neighbors quickly grew tired of their disruptions. | 3 | |
| 96298265 | Aztecs | The ____ were also referred to as the Mexica. | 4 | |
| 96298266 | Lake Texcoco | The Mexica settled on a marshy region of _____ , a site which offered ample water and abundant wildlife and allowed the Mexica to develop an extremely productive system of agriculture based on raised, floating gardens called chinampas. | 5 | |
| 96449885 | Chinampas | Good Mexican farmers could produce up to seven crops per year of maize, beans, squash, tomatoes, peppers, and chilies from their raised, floating gardens called _____. | 6 | |
| 96449886 | Moctezuma | By the early 1400s, the Mexica, under the leadership of Itzcoatl and then _____, began a series of ambitious military campaigns adding portions of southwestern Mexico, then the Gulf coast regions, and finally the high plateaus of central Mexico to their imperial realm. | 7 | |
| 96449887 | Calpulli | The _____, which began as ancestor-based groups, evolved into location-based groups which organized their own affairs and allocated land to individual families. | 8 | |
| 96449888 | Mound-Building People | ______ in the eastern half of the modern United States built large cities such as the one whose remains are best seen outside of St. Louis, Missouri today. Though these people left no written records, archaeological evidence suggests societies linked by trade and characterized by a range of social classes. | 9 | |
| 96588601 | Cuzco | _____ was the administrative, religious, and ceremonial capital of the Incan Empire. This city had handsome red stone buildings, a road system 10,000 miles long that tied it to the rest of the empire, and it encouraged obedience of conquered peoples by using them in their armies and by posting them to bureaucratic positions. | 10 | |
| 96588602 | Quipu | Inca bureaucrats kept detailed records using a mnemonic device called ______ to record statistical information such as population, tax rolls and receipts, labor services, and to remember historical information relating to rulers and their deeds. | 11 | |
| 96588603 | Marae | In some Pacific island societies, structures known as ______ were built with several terraced floors of rock or coral walls designating the boundaries of a sacred place. | 12 | |
| 96589320 | Tenochtitlan | About 1345, the Mexica settled on a marshy region of Lake Texcoco and founded their capital city, _____. | 13 | |
| 96590123 | Self-sufficient Societies | The indegenous peoples of Australia and the Pacific Islands built _____ and tended to their own needs. | 14 |
