Aztecs and Incas Flashcards

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