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Chapter 6 Test Review

Important Terms

Latin American Geography

Aztec

Inca

Maya

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100 200 300 400

100 200 300 400

100 200 300 400

100 200 300 400

Important Terms: 100


The process of cutting and clearing away trees from a forest. This process has greatly affected the Amazon rain forest.
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Important Terms: 100

What is deforestation?

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Important Terms: 200

A smaller water source that pours into a larger body of water such as a river or an ocean.
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Important Terms: 200

What is a tributary?

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Important Terms: 300

The basic unit of the Maya writing system. Each part represented a word or symbol.
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Important Terms: 300

What are hieroglyphs?

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Important Terms: 400

The Aztec used these floating gardens in order to grow crops.

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Important Terms: 400

What are chinampas?

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Aztec: 100

Men would do this in order to maintain a powerful empire and to honor Huitzilopochtli.

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Aztec: 100

Why do Aztecs join the army?

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Aztec: 200
This Spanish conquistador allowed the Aztecs to believe that he was a god in order to gain their trust and overtake them.
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Aztec: 200

Who is Hernan Cortez?

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Aztec: 300

Describe the farming methods of the Aztec.

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Aztec: 300
The Aztecs would take the mud from the marshes and shovel it into fenced in barriers typically connected at four corners to trees. This would create a floating garden on which to grow crops.
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Aztec: 400

He was the leader of the Aztecs when the Aztecs were overtaken.

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Aztec: 400

Who is Montezuma II.

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Inca: 100

This is the famous Inca city in the mountains of Peru.

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Inca: 100

What is Machu Picchu?

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Inca: 200

Messages had to be carried on foot by runners on an extensive road system because the Inca did not have this.
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Inca: 200

What is a written language system.

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Inca: 300

The conquistador who conquered the Inca empire and established, Lima, the capital of Peru.
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Inca: 300

Who is Francisco Pizarro?

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Inca: 400

Describe the farming methods of the Inca.

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Inca: 400

The Inca built terraces into the mountainside and irrigation canals in the desert lands.
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Maya: 100

The Maya first understood this advanced mathematical concept.

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Maya: 100

What is the concept of zero?

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Maya: 200
One of these keeps track of sacred days, another the movement of the sun, and yet another how much time has passed since a fixed starting point.
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Maya: 200

What are the Mayan calendars?

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Maya: 300

The Maya would not plant in a particlar field every few years in order to allow for what?
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Maya: 300

They would allow the field to rest in order to regain its nutrients.

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Maya: 400

Describe the farming methods of the Maya.

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Maya: 400

The Maya practiced a slash and burn agriculture method.

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Latin American Geo: 100


This key city experiences a variety of problems because of its location surrounded by mountains and having been built in a dried lakebed.
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Latin American Geo: 100

What is Mexico City.

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Latin American Geo: 200


This natural phenomenon is the cause of the many earthquakes and volcanic activity along the western coast of South and Central America.
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Latin American Geo: 200

What is the movement of the tectonic plates?

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Latin American Geo: 300


During certain years, this current of wind carries warm air containing greater moisture over Latin America around Christmas time.
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Latin American Geo: 300

What is El Nino?

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Latin American Geo: 400

The structures that make up the two types of islands in the Caribbean.

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Latin American Geo: 400

What are volcanoes and coral reefs?

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