Question
This empire’s engineers developed floating gardens called chinampas to turn the surface of Lake Texcoco into arable land. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this empire whose capital was Tenochtitlan.
ANSWER: Aztec Empire
[10m] Aztec usage of chinampas led Karl August Wittfogel to classify it as one of these civilizations in his book Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power. Wittfogel argued that these empires were able to maintain centralized power by controlling access to water.
ANSWER: hydraulic empires
[10h] The pre-Columbian civilizations of the Andes developed this technique with an Aymara name, which combines raised beds with irrigation canals to greatly improve crop yields.
ANSWER: waru waru [or camellones]
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