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20 Cards in this Set
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Which of these ancient civilizations existed first?
Aztecs - Incas - Mayas |
Mayas
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Which of these ancient civilizations had a capital city called Tenochtitlan?
Aztecs - Incas - Mayas |
Aztecs
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Which of these ancient civilizations was centered in the Andes Mts. of South America?
Aztecs - Incas - Mayas |
Incas
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Which of these ancient civilizations died out mysteriously around 900AD?
Aztecs - Incas - Mayas |
Mayas
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Which of these ancient civilizations were conquered by the Spanish Conquistador Hernan Cortez?
Aztecs - Incas - Mayas |
Aztecs
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Which of these ancient civilizations were led by a leader called Montezuma?
Aztecs - Incas - Mayas |
Aztecs
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Which of these ancient civilizations were led by a leader called Ataluapa?
Aztecs - Incas - Mayas |
Incas
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Which of these ancient civilizations had a hieroglyphic type of written language?
Aztecs - Incas - Mayas |
Mayas
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Which of these ancient civilizations had a spoken language called Quechua?
Aztecs - Incas - Mayas |
Incas
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Which of these ancient civilizations were conquered by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizarro?
Aztecs - Incas - Mayas |
Incas
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Which of these ancient civilizations had a capital city surrounded by Lake Texcoco?
Aztecs - Incas - Mayas |
Aztecs
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Which of these ancient civilizations (on the Yucatan Peninsula) were not conquered by the Spanish?
Aztecs - Incas - Mayas |
Mayas
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Which of these ancient civilizations extensively had an advanced road messenger system and used the quipu (knotted cord device) to keep track of calculations and records?
Aztecs - Incas - Mayas |
Incas
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Which of these ancient civilizations played a rubber ball sport (sometimes to the death), called Tlachtli, with a hoop and court?
Aztecs - Incas - Mayas |
Aztecs
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Which of these ancient civilization had a very advanced calendar, high level mathematics, the concept of zero, and had ruins that were buried for 600 years and unearthed in the 1900's?
Aztecs - Incas - Mayas |
Mayas
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Which of these ancient civilizations extensively used the llama for a pack animal?
Aztecs - Incas - Mayas |
Incas
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Which of these ancient civilizations had a capital city called Cuzco (now known as Lima, Peru)?
Aztecs - Incas - Mayas |
Incas
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Which of these ancient civilizations wandered through the desert until they saw the eagle grasping the serpent and worshipped a god of learning called Quetzalcoatal?
Aztecs - Incas - Mayas |
Aztecs
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What was the name of the Egyptian boy king pharaoh that ruled for ten years until death at age 19?
Tut - Caesar - Solomon |
Tut
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What was the name of the sculpted stone monument to the Egyptian pharoahs for 2000 years of their rule shaped like a man's head on a lion's body?
Eiffel Tower - Rosetta Stone - Sphinx |
Sphinx
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