Maya, Aztec and Inca: fill in the blanks · Grade 8

The word bank and sentences

Directions: Read each sentence. Choose the best word from the word bank and write it on the line.

• Word bank: cross out each word as you use it
• glyphs · Quechua · quipu · chinampas · smallpox · zero roads · Tenochtitlan
• 1 The Inca linked their mountain empire with a network of · tens of thousands of kilometers long.
• 2 Maya scribes wrote with hundreds of ____, and scholars can now read much of their writing.
• 3 had causeways, canals and busy markets, and may have held about
• 200,000 people.
• 4 Inca officials kept records on a ____, a set of knotted strings.
• 5 Millions of people today speak Maya languages and ____, keeping these cultures alive.
• 6 Aztec farmers grew crops on ____, plots built up from mud in shallow lakes.
• 7 Spanish conquest and diseases such as · devastated the Aztec and
• Inca empires in the 1500s.
• 8 The Maya used a symbol for · in their counting system more than
• 1,500 years ago.