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| 9132486882 | Mexico | Where the Aztecs Empire thrived before Spanish conquest in the 16th century |  | 0 |
| 9132486883 | Tenochtitlan | Capital city of the Aztecs |  | 1 |
| 9132486884 | Chinampas | Floating gardens of the Aztecs |  | 2 |
| 9132486885 | Coast of South America | Where the Incan Empire was located |  | 3 |
| 9132486886 | Cuzco | The Incan Capital city |  | 4 |
| 9132486887 | Terraced farming | The steep terrain of the Andes Mountains caused farming to be done in steps |  | 5 |
| 9132486888 | Irrigation canals | built of stone, brought water to the Incas crops |  | 6 |
| 9132486889 | No written language | used Incan runners and rope bridges to carry messages |  | 7 |
| 9132486890 | Machu Picchu | an Incan city 8,000 feet above sea level |  | 8 |
| 9132486891 | Conquistadors | Spanish conquerors/soldiers a term used to describe Cortez |  | 9 |
| 9132486892 | Spanish explorer who first came to Mexico | Hernan Cortez |  | 10 |
| 9132486893 | Quetzalcoatl | An Aztec god that Montezuma II, the Aztec ruler, thought Hernan Cortes was |  | 11 |
| 9132486894 | Smallpox | a disease the Spanish brought with them that wiped out thousands of Aztec people |  | 12 |
| 9132486895 | Gold, God, and Glory | the reason for European exploration of the New World |  | 13 |
| 9132486896 | Disease and better weapons | how the Spanish were able to conquer the Aztec and Incan Empires despite their large numbers |  | 14 |
| 9132486897 | Spanish Hernandez Cortez and his soldiers | Conquered the Aztecs, destroyed Tenochtitlan, and killed Montezuma |  | 15 |
| 9132486898 | Francisco Pizarro | Conquered the Incas and Atahualpa |  | 16 |
| 9132486899 | How the Spanish overtook the Aztecs and Incans | Disease, advanced weapons, and the ability to convince other tribes to join them, helped the Spanish conquer the Aztecs and Incans. | 17 | |
| 9132486900 | Mestizos | Offspring of European settlers and American Indians | 18 | |
| 9132486901 | Mulattoes | Offspring of Africans and Europeans | 19 | |
| 9132496172 | Guns, Germs, and Steel | Forces of environment determined how Europeans were able to gain an advantage over most other cultures in the world. | 20 |
