• Who were the Aztecs?
  The Aztecs were wandering hunters who arrived in Mexico around AD ...

• Who invented chocolate?
  Aztec cooks. They made a sweet, frothy chocolate drink from ground-up ...

• Who was the great Feathered Serpent?
  An important Aztec god-his real name was Quetzalcoatl. The Aztecs ...

• How did the Mayas, Aztecs and Incas lose their power?
  They were conquered by soldiers from Spain, who arrived in America in ...

• What were Mayan palaces made of?
  Great slabs of stone, or sun-dried mud brick, covered with a layer of ...

• How did the Incas keep records of past events?
  On bundles of knotted string, called quipus. The pattern of knots ...

• Why were llamas so important?
  Because they could survive in the Incas' mountain homeland, over ...

• What is Islam?
  The religious faith taught by the Prophet Muhammad. People who follow ...

• What was the Golden Garden?
  A courtyard next to the Great Temple in the Incas' capital city of ...

• Who were the Mongols?
  Tribes of nomads who roamed over the vast plains of Central Asia, ...