Chapter 6 Test World History

payment from conquered peoples

Mexico and Central America

what were the geoglyphs of the Nezca people?

developed the earliest American civilization, which emerged from the Gulf of Mexico

maya cities are especially well known for their what?

native americans from the arctic

ceremony that involved the giving of lavish gifts

according to the aztec mythology, ________ in teotihuacan created the world

Andean city which controlled much of Peru’s mountain and coastal areas

native american corn

large piles of soil built into burial mounds or defensive walls

the ancestral puebloans protected themselves from raiders by building what?

mixture of clay and plant fibers that dries hard in the sun

scholars believe that the first people who arrived in the americas came from where?

a city on the shores of lake titcaca

aztecs built artificial mud islands to create farmland

the Inca sun god

Mississippian center that may have been home to 20,000 people

we know that the Hopewell people traded over a wide area because their mounds contained what?

the capital city of the Inca empire

in which civilization in the america’s from this chapter did the people own no property, so there was little trade

Inca village

an underground chamber for meetings and ceremonies

during the classic period of maya civilization, Maya cities were mostly independent ...

a tall stone Mayan monument

the “clan mother” in Iroquois culture could do what?

a large dwelling that many ancestral Puebloans lived in

a collection of colored strings knotted to represent numbers

largest cliff dwellings of Ancestral Puebloans