Americas Flashcards
1
Q
The Aztecs settled in a
A
Arid valley in Central Mexico
2
Q
Aztecs slowly built
A
Tenochtitlan
3
Q
The Aztec economy was based off of?
A
agriculture
4
Q
The Aztecs did what style of farming?
A
chinampa farming
5
Q
Aztecs were..
A
polytheistic
6
Q
Aztecs performed?
A
ritual ceremonies
7
Q
Aztecs contributions?
A
could set broken bones, treat dental cavities
8
Q
The Incans settled in
A
Andes mountains of South America
9
Q
Incans was founded by
A
Pachacuti
10
Q
Who held absolute power in the Incan government
A
Pachacuti
11
Q
Incans were?
A
polytheistic
12
Q
Incan roads??
A
- allowed speedy military movement
- better than Romans’s system of roads
- messages + news passed from runner to runner
- hundreds of bridges and tunnels
- ordinary people are forbidden on roads
13
Q
Machu Picchu means?
A
manly peak
14
Q
Machu Pichus’s economy was built on a?
A
high altitude agriculture
(terraced farming)
15
Q
Incan contributions?
A
Medicine-
first to operate on the brain.
first to use antiseptics and ansethias
