Chapter 11: The Americas

Incan Empire

The ________ was still flourishing when the first Spanish expeditions arrived in the central Andes.

narwhal tusk

With a variety of harpoons and spears made from antler or ________, the Inuit became skilled at hunting seal, caribou, and fish, which provided them with both food and clothing.

Cahokia

At the site of ________, near the modern city of East St. Louis, Illinois, archaeologists found a burial mound over 98 feet (30 m) high with a base larger than that of the Great Pyramid in Egypt.

Maya

The ________ created a sophisticated writing system based on hieroglyphs, or pictures.

Inca

The ________ had no writing system but instead kept records using a system of knotted strings called the quipu.

Francisco Pizarro

In 1531, ________ and a small band of about 180 men landed on the Pacific coast of South America.

Buffalo

The ________ served many uses for Plains peoples.

Spanish force

In 1519, a(n) ________ under the command of Hernán Cortés landed at Veracruz, on the Gulf of Mexico.

Aztec religion

________ was based on a belief in an unending struggle between the forces of good and evil throughout the universe.

Moche

________ was the capital of a powerful state.

Human sacrifice

In an effort to postpone the day of reckoning, the Aztec practiced ________.

Cortés

When ________ arrived at Tenochtitlán, he received a friendly welcome from the Aztec monarch Montezuma (also spelled Moctezuma)

Mexico City

Located near ________ in a fertile valley, Teoti- huacán had as many as 200, 000 inhabitants at its height.

Central pyramid

Mayan cities were built around a(n) ________ topped by a shrine to the gods.

Machu Picchu

________, elevation 8, 000 feet (2, 400 m), was built on a lofty hilltop surrounded by mountain peaks far above the Urubamba River.

upper Yucatán Peninsula

They controlled the ________ from another capital at Chichén Itzá for several centuries, beginning around A.D. 900.

North America

________ is a large continent with varying climates and geographical features.

Oldest major city

Caral has been identified as the ________ in the Americas.