chapter 16

Question 1

maize

Answer 1

corn is grown by Mayans in what is now Guatemala.

Question 2

observatories

Answer 2

buildings from which people could study the sky and stars to plan the best times for religious festivals.

Question 3

causeways

Answer 3

raised roads across water or wet ground (connects island to the lake shore)

Question 4

conquistador

Answer 4

Spanish conquerors,who reached Mexico in 1519. They were led by Hernán Cortés; to find gold, claim land, and convert native people to Catholicism.

Question 5

Hernán Cortés

Answer 5

Leader of the conquistadors that conquered the Aztec Empire in 1521.

Question 6

Moctezuma II

Answer 6

Aztec Emperor who believed Cortés to be the god Quetzalcoatl.

Question 7

Pachacuti

Answer 7

Inca ruler who began the military campaigns expanding the Incan empire. His name means “he who remakes the world,”

Question 8

Quechua

Answer 8

official Inca language

Question 9

masonry

Answer 9

stonework

Question 10

Atahualpa

Answer 10

Last Inca ruler during the Spanish conquest by Spaniard Francisco Pizarro captured him.

Question 11

Francisco Pizarro

Answer 11

A Spanish conquistador and explorer who conquered the Incan Empire, naming Peru’s capital Lima.

Question 12

aspect

Answer 12

a part of something

Question 13

rebel

Answer 13

to fight against authority

Question 14

motive

Answer 14

reason for doing something

Question 15

distribute

Answer 15

to divide among a group of people