SSWH8 Central/South American Empires

Where were the Aztecs located in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries?

• Central Mexico

• North America

• Brazil

• Arabia

Which of the following is the capital of the Maya Empire?

• Cuzco
• Tikal
• Tenochtitlan
• Baghdad

What was the Popol Vuh?

• Mayan religious calendar
• Inca rules on being a chasquis
• Aztec book on the Legend of Tenochtitlan
• Book that tells Mayan creation myth

Inca accounting device made of a set of knotted strings. 

• Quipu
• Codex
• Popul Vuh
• Chasquis

Feathered Serpent God

• Huitzilopochtli
• Quetzalcoatl
• P.J. Weigel
• Inti

Last Aztec ruler.

• Przemek Karnowski
• Tupac Amaru
• Atahualpa
• Montezuma II

Founder of Inca empire.

• Pikachuti
• Pachacuti
• Atahualpa
• Hernan Cortes

A hard, glassy volcanic rock

• mita
• allyu
• pueblo
• obsidian

In the Inca Empire, the requirement that all able-bodied subjects work for the state a certain number of days each year.

• ayllu
• potlatch
• mita
• quipu

A symbolic picture—especially one used as part of a writing system for carving messages in stone is a 

• mita
• quipu
• codex
• glyph