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12 Cards in this Set
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When the Aztecs migrated from northern Mexico, where did they settle?
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on a swampy island in Lake Texcoco
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What was the Aztec capital?
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Tenochtitlan
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How did the Aztecs get more farmland?
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they built chinampas
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What is mitima?
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It is the Inca practice of sending conquered people to live in new places.
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Name an important city of the Incas.
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Cuzco
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How did the Incas store information?
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on knotted strings called quipus
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What is the Inca language called?
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Quechua
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A human made land bridge is called a....
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Causeway
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Whose counting system was based on 20?
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Aztecs
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What do you call a human-made island built of natural materialsor "floating gardens?"
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Chinampa
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What did the Incas call a high-protein grain that they grew?
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quinoa
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the colored knotted strings used by the Incas for storing information were called.....
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Quipu
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