Aztecs, Maya and Incas

What this quiz asks

• In Aztec legend, an eagle perched on a cactus eating a snake showed where to found their capital. Which country's flag shows this scene today?
• The great Maya city of Chichén Itzá, with its stepped pyramid El Castillo, stands on which peninsula?
• The Aztec capital Tenochtitlan was built on an island in which lake?
• Which city was the capital of the Inca Empire?
• The people we call the Aztecs called themselves the Mexica.
• What was a quipu, used by the Incas to keep records?
• What were the Aztec chinampas?
• Select ALL of these ancient cities that were built by the Maya.
• In the Mesoamerican ball game, players mainly struck the heavy rubber ball with which part of the body?
• Did the Aztecs use cacao beans as a form of money?
• The Incas moved goods along their roads in wheeled carts pulled by llamas.
• How many days made up the Maya sacred calendar, the Tzolk'in?
• The Incas called their empire Tawantinsuyu. What does the name mean?
• The Templo Mayor in Tenochtitlan had twin shrines, one to the rain god Tlaloc and one to which Aztec god of war and the sun?
• According to UNESCO, roughly how many kilometres long was the Inca road network, the Qhapaq Ñan?
• Doomsday rumours spread in 2012 because a great cycle of which Maya calendar was coming to an end?
• Select ALL of these animals that Andean peoples such as the Incas had domesticated before Europeans arrived.
• Order these events from earliest to latest.
• Which Inca ruler is thought to have had Machu Picchu built as a royal estate?
• Which Soviet scholar showed in the 1950s that Maya glyphs also recorded sounds, opening the way to reading them?