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1
Which is not a cultural tradition started by the Olmec
playing a ball game with a rubber ball
Building step shaped temples
human sacrifice
hunting buffalo
2
What group of people built the first mounds, including Great Serpent Mound
Chickasaw
Anasazi
Hopewell
Pueblo
3
What base does the Mayan number system use?
20
10
60
1
4
What group of people built mounds from 700AD to 1550AD?
Mississippians
Anasazi
Pueblo
Seminole
5
Did the Aztec have a written language?
No written symbols
A complete written language, but only a few books survived
A written language consisting of knots on a string
Simple written logograms but no complete written language
6
What was the Inca Emperor called?
Sapa Inca
Inti Inca
Coya Inca
Nazca Inca
7
What is the term for a pool of underground water sacred to the Maya
Cenote
Popul Vu
Madre
Aquade
8
Who was the creator god of the Inca?
Huizilopochtli
Viracocha
Pachacuti
Inti
9
What is quipu
Inca system of recording numbers
Term for Inca holy places
Inca human sacrifice
Term for a drug made from leaves
10
Where was the Nazca culture located?
North America, in what is Mexico
Central America, in what is now Guatemala
South America, in what is now Peru
South America, in what is now Argentina
11
How did the Aztec usually sacrifice people
jump and kill-forcing them to jump off a cliff
drowning them in the sacred lake
suffocating them with sacred pillows
cutting out the heart
12
In which region of what is now the U.S. did people hunt buffalo, and get most of what they needed in life from them?
Great Plains
Eastern Woodlands
Northwest
Southwest
13
What Toltec and Aztec god was represented as a feathered serpent
Huitzilopochtli
Tenochtitlan
Inti
Quetzalcoatl
14
In what region of the what is now theU.S. did people build adobe houses and cliff dwellings, and use irrigation to farm?
Great Plains
Northwest
Eastern Woodlands
Southwest
15
What culture was located at K?
Inca
Aztec
Maya
Pueblo
16
What was the term for the 52 year cycle, when the Tzolkin(260 day) & Haab (solar year-365 day) realigned?
Sun Cycle
Long Count
Calendar Round
Moon Cycle
17
What did they rely on for food in the Pacific Northwest
farming potatoes
guinea pigs
fish
buffalo
18
What culture was located at M?
Maya
Aztec
Inca
Pueblo
19
When were the Maya at their height?
10,000BC-8000BC
1200BC-400BC
100AD-900AD
1200AD-1400AD
20
What was the largest Native American city in what is now the U.S.?
Nalodia
Tula
Cahokia
Tuscaloosa
21
What was an important way the Maya showed devotion and honor to their gods?
building beautiful step shaped temples
all of the above
piercing themselves and bleeding a little
playing a ritual ball game
22
Who was the Inca Sun god?
Huitzilopoctli
Pachacuti
Inti
Manco Copac
23
What kind of political organization did the Maya have?
A republic with an elected Senate
An empire with an emperor
A centralized monarchy with a king
Independent city states
24
Which culture made this mummy?
Inca
Toltec
Aztec
Maya
25
In what early culture was this type of writing used?
China
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Maya
26
Which Aztec god had a hummingbird head and carried a turquoise serpent?
Viracocha
Inti
Quetzacoatl
Huitzilopochtli
27
What culture is this writing associated with?
Teotihuacan
Maya
Mississipians
Inca
28
What was the term for the Mayan underworld?
Hades
Helheim
Xibalba
Niflheim
29
What is the term for the Aztec artificial islands?
Chinampas
Chichen Itzas
Copans
Huitzilopochtlis
30
Which is true of the Aztec capital?
It was built on an island in a lake
It was built on a high mountain
It was shaped like a crouching mountain lion
It is the oldest city in the Americas
31
What was the capital of the Inca?
Texcoco
Cuzco
Coya
Inti
32
What did the Hero Twins in Mayan mythology do?
destroyed the earth and turned people into monkeys
Invented the Mayan calendar
Defeated the Lords of Death in a ball game
Taught the Maya how to grow corn
33
Who was the Aztec sun god?
Huitzilopochtli
Inti
Coya
Quetzalcoatle
34
What was the capital of the Aztec?
Cuzco
Chichen Itza
Tula
Tenochtitlan
35
According to Aztec legend, our world will be destroyed by
Wind
Earthquake
Fire
Monkeys
36
In what culture was this type of writing used?
Mesopotamia
Inca
Egypt
Maya
37
Which Inca Emperor was most responsible for conquering land and building the Empire
Huitzilopochtli
Inti
Pachacuti
Manco Copac
38
Which was not an important crop of the Americas?
wheat
beans
squash
corn
39
What culture dominated central Mexico in 800 AD-1200AD?
Aztec
Teotihuacan
Toltec
Maya
40
By taking them to a high mountain to die
How did the Maya sacrifice people?
How did the Toltec sacrifice people
How did the Inca sacrifice people?
How did the Aztec sacrifice people?
41
Which culture built these cliff dwellings
Anasazi
Maya
Olmec
Inca
42
What is the oldest known culture of Mesoamerica?
Toltec
Olmec
Aztec
Maya
43
How did people from Asia get to N. America.?
The continents were joined in one great continent: Pangaia
They came across the Bering Strait in canoes
They walked on dry land, because they ocean level was lower
They walked on ice because the climate was colder
44
What was the Popul Vuh?
Creation story of the Maya
Origin story of the Virgins of the Sun
Chief priest of the Mayan religion
Important ceremony connected withcooking guinea pigs
45
Which of these is a product native to Mesoamerica
Rubber
Bronze
Potatoes
Concrete
46
What was the 260 day sacred lunar Mayan year called?
Haab
Tzolkin
Zhou
Xia
47
Which culture is the Pyramid of the Sun associated with?
Inca
Aztec
Mayan
Teotihuacan
48
How many Mayan books still exist?
1
7
4
52
49
What was the only civilization in the Americas to have a complete writing system?
Maya
Mississippians
Inca
Aztec
50
Which of these cultures was in the s.w. part of the U.S., around Arizona and New Mexico
Anasazi
Mississippians
Aztec
Maya
51
What civilization was at J?
Pueblo
Aztec
Maya
Inca
52
Term for the theory that people entered Beringia, stayed there several 1000's years, then proceeded into N. Am.?
Alaskan interval theory
Asian Delay theory
American Waiting theory
Beringian Stand-still theory
53
How long before the Mayan sacred year and solar year realigned?
52 years
5 years
50 years
3543 years
54
Which culture had an extensive road system of paved and non-paved roads?
Aztec
Toltec
Inca
Maya
55
What kind of political organization did the Inca have
A democracy ruled by the people
A republic with an elected Senate
A empire ruled by an emperor
Independent city-states
56
What was the most important food for the Inca?
Corn
Wheat bread
Coca leaves
Potatoes
57
What is this?
Toltec suspension bridge
Mayan suspension bridge
Inca suspension bridge
Aztec suspension bridge
58
What was the term for the cycle of 5000 + years in the Maya calendar?
Haab
Tzolken
Calendar Round
Long Count
59
How many days in the Tzolkin-the sacred Mayan lunar year?
365
3542
260
52
60
What was the term for the 365 Mayan solar year?
Haab
Xibalba
Long Count
Tzolkin
61
To what type of government/economy has the Inca government/economy been compared?
Socialism
Democracy
Anarchy
None of the above
62
Which of these is the most likely reason for the decline of the Maya
Volcanic eruption
Attack and conquest by the Aztecs
Drought & overuse of land, followed by famine
Conquest by the Spanish
63
The Inca Empire was called the "Land of the ____"?
Great Emperor
Sun
Four Quarters
High Mountains
64
what did the Native Americans not have?
All of the above
Plow
Wheeled Vehicles
Metal tools and weapons
65
Did the Inca have a written language?
Yes, but all examples have been lost
Yes, they had a highly developed writing system
They had a limited number of written symbols for names
No, they had a way of recording numbers, but no writing
66
What is the name of this Inca city high up in the Andes Mountains
Cuzco
Machu Picchu
Teotihuacan
Tenochtitlan
67
With which culture is this associated?
Inca
Aztec
Maya
Hopewell
68
Where was the Inca culture located?
North America, in what is now Arizona
Central America, in what is now Mexico
South America, in what is now Peru
Central America, in what is now Panama
69
What does this represent
earth
ball
0
Bread
70
What art form that has been discovered by archeologists is associated with the Olmec
Large stone heads
polished bronze statues
Special decorated cloth
Totem poles
71
What was a Maya ball court shaped like
long corridor with cross corridors at each end
a seashell
It was circular
It was a semicircle
72
Which culture had the famous images carved in the ground?
Inca
Nazca
Aztec
Maya
73
What did the Aztec god tell the Aztec people to look for?
Mountain lion with an eagle in its mouth on a hill
Jaguar eating a snake on a hill
Snake eating an eagle on a cactus
eagle with snake in its mouth on a cactus
74
What was the main source of animal protein for the Inca?
Chicken
Human flesh
Squirrel
Guinea Pigs
75
Give an analogy for how the days of the Maya sacred yr & the days of the solar yr are paired
like couples in a dance
like a mathematical function
like interlocking gears
like animals on Noah's ark
76
What was an ayllu?
A way the Inca recorded numbers
A system of roads in the Inca Empire
A tomb in the Andes mountains
An extended family group of farmers in Inca society
77
According to Aztec legend, how many worlds, called "suns", have there been, including ours?
3
1
9
5
78
What is this
Coya
Capacocha
Quipu
Nazca
79
What did the Maya write books on?
Clay tablets
Tortoise shells
Fig bark paper
Papyrus
80
What climate condition enabled people from Asia to cross to N. America.?
period of less rainfall
period of more rainfall
Ice Age
Period of Global warming
81
What city is this?
Tenochtitlan
Teotihuacan
Chichen Itza
Cuzco
82
What were the approximate dates of the Inca Empire?
1400 BC - 1533 BC
200 BC-900 BC
200 AD - 900 AD
1400 AD-1533 AD
83
In what culture was this type of writing used?
Egypt
Mesopotamia
China
Maya
84
Which culture made these?
Inca
Olmec
Maya
Aztec
85
About when did people from Asia cross to N. America.?
1000-500 years ago
30,000 -13,000 years ago
1,000,000-500,000 years ago
250,000-200,000 years ago
86
When did the Olmec flourish?
200 AD-900 AD
10,000 BC-8000 BC
1200 BC-400 BC
1200 BC-1500 AD
87
Who dominated Mexico from 1200AD to about 1500AD
Inca
Maya
Aztec
Toltec
88
What happened to the rest of the Maya books, besides the 4 that still exist?
The Spanish destroyed them, with they arrived
They were destroyed in a hurricane
They were destroyed in a great flood
The material on which they were written disintegrated.
89
What was Capacocha?
The Incan word for gold
The plant that is the source of cocaine
The famous temple of Inti
Inca human sacrifice
90
In Mayan numbers, what did a dot represent? What did a horizontal line represent?
Dot-1; line-5
Dot-1; line-10
Dot-1; line-20
Dot-1; line-0
91
What land joined Asia & Alaska During the last ice age?
Beringia
Canada
Tenochtitlan
Panama canal
92
Which of the following was associated with Maya culture
Grapes
Olives
Potatoes
Cacao beans
