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23 Cards in this Set
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Inca |
Grew crops on terraced gardens |
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Aztec |
Cortez defeated them |
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Aztec |
They looked for an eagle eating a snake on a cactus as a sigh |
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Aztec |
Were the first to eat chocolate
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Maya |
Were great at mathematics and astronomy
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Aztec |
Used chinampas to grow crops
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Maya |
Flattened their infant's foreheads |
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All of them |
The temple was the most important building
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Aztec |
The major city had over 250,000 people |
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Inca |
Were master bridge builders
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Aztec |
Had canals in their capitol city that brought goods into the city and took out garbage |
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Inca |
Lived in the mountains of South America |
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Aztec |
Had docotors that were just as good as European doctors |
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Aztec |
Lived in what is now Mexico City |
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Maya |
Disappeared before the Spanish arrived |
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Maya |
Lived on the Yucatan Peninsula |
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Inca |
Used llama, alpaca, and vicuna for wool |
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Inca |
Pizarro defeated this civilization |
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Aztec and Maya |
These civilizations had ball courts |
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Inca |
Built their buildings so well, that a blade cannot penetrate where the stone meets even today |
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All of them |
Practiced human sacrifices |
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Maya |
Corn was the most important food |
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Inca |
Developed almost one half of the vegetables we eat today |
