1: What was NOT one of the Maya’s accomplishments?
Calendar
Alphabet
Pyramids
Numbers
2: In what occupation did the Maya engage?
Farming
Trading
Basketweaving
Bricklaying
3: How did the Aztecs enlarge space for crops?
Cut down forests
Introduced irrigation
Made chinampas
Tore down abandoned houses
4: How did the Aztec civilization end?
They feasted to often and became lazy
A great famine wiped out their civilization
The Aztecs needed change and decided to move
Hernando Cortes and the Spaniards conquered them
5: How was the large Inca empire held together?
System of roads
Waterways
Bonds between families
Moderate Climate
6: How did the Inca civilization end?
Conquered by Spaniards
Civil Conflict
Conquered by Francisco Pizarro and the Spanish
They ran out of gold
7: What does the word Renaissance literally mean?
different life
rebirth
A new age
knights
8: Where did the Renaissance originate?
England
France
Scotland
Italy
9: Why was the Renaissance an age of expression?
People felt suppressed
People wanted to express their individual ideas – through art, literature, politics, etc.
People were very concerned with impressing others
People liked to make funny faces at each other
2007-03-08
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