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Unit 1 The First Americans
Unit 1 The First Americans
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1
Which of the following is an example of a key feature of the Inca Civilization?
farming their land by cutting terraces into the mountains
building their capital in the middle of a lake
creating enormous stone monument
predicting eclipses and created a 365 day calendar
2
What 2 large animals did natives hunt that are now extinct?
Elk and Mastadons
Mammoths & Elk
Mammoths and Mastadons
Elephants and Mammoths
3
What were Tenochtitlan and Cuzco respectively?
Capitals of the Aztecs and Inca
the language of Incas and Mayas
Capitals of the Aztec and Mayan
Capitals of the Mayan and Inca
4
A stone house that looked like an apartment house was a ?
Pueblo
Cahokia
Mesa
Kiva
5
What can be said about the Indians compared to the Europeans?
all the Indians were in a Confederacy and Europeans were not
All the tribe united and Europeans were not
the tribes all spoke the same language and Europeans did no
They tried to preserve the land and Europeans didn't
6
Which of these were not part of the Plains Indians tribes?
Apache
Sioux
Cheyenne
Zuni
7
What was Beringia?
the mountains that people crossed
the land bridge people crossed
the water that people crossed
the man-made bridge people crossed
8
Quechua was
spoken language of Incas
spoken language of Aztecs
written language of Incas
written language of Aztecs
9
Plains Indians : Buffalo as ______________: Whales
Inuits
Navajo
Mayan
Apache
10
What tribe had a 5 nation confederacy?
Apache
Iroquois
Sioux
Cherokee
11
What would the Northwest Pacific Coast Indians be famous for?
Totems and Kivas
Mounds and Horses
Totems and Potlatch
Potlatch and Kivas
12
What let people be non-nomadic?
Agriculture
Better Homes
Government
Fresh Water
13
What was the main reason people migrated to America?
Weather
Food
Value meal at McDonalds
Overcrowding
14
What group used a lot of sacrifices?
Aztecs
Incas
Olmecs
Apache
15
What is called the way of life for people?
language
culture
religion
civilization
16
Which Georgia tribe had their own alphabet?
Navajo
Apache
Cherokee
Seminole
17
What group lived in tepees?
Seminole
Plains Indians
Cherokee
Navajo
18
Which tribe were the blanket makers and code talkers?
Zuni
Navajo
Seminole
Cherokee
19
What culture were hunters and gatherers in the Ohio Valley?
Adena
Hopewell
Anasazi
Mississippian
20
What made the Great Lakes and many others?
Volcanoes
Glaciers
Tidal Waves
Earthquakes
21
Tikal was
largest city in the Mayan culture
the Mayan pyramids
the states the Olmec made
the Mayan language
22
What were the Hopi and Zuni tribes known for?
Witchcraft
Puebloes
Kivas
Adobe houses
23
What is another name for the Inuits?
Navajo
Apache
Eskimo
Incas
24
What did Pizarro and Cortez have in common?
they had the same grandmother
both were from Mexico
both Conquistadors
both were chiefs
25
What group gave us a math system and a primitive form of basketball?
Mayan
Apache
Inca
Toltec
26
Which of these tribes were the warriors?
Inca
Olmec
Mayan
Aztec
27
What do all past & present living things have in them that can be dated?
Sulphur
Oxygen
Carbon
Hydrogen
28
Which of these was a famous pueblo?
Kiva Dunes
Mesa Verde
Potlatch
Cahokia
29
What were Quipus used for?
population count
keeping food records
writing
causeway commerce
30
Osceola and Sequoya were leaders of what tribes respectively?
Cherokee and Seminole
Hope and Zuni
Seminole and Cherokee
Navajo and Sioux
31
Which tribe was never put on reservations?
Navajo
Hopi
Cherokee
Seminole
32
What group had an accurate calendar?
Mayan
Olmec
Inca
Aztec
33
Which of these groups were probably the first to come to America?
Paleo
Eskimo
Apache
Aztec
34
Where did the Incas settle?
Mexico
Andes mountains in Peru
Andes Mountains in Guatemala
on the Yucatan peninsula
35
What did the Aztecs use to link the mainland with their island?
dams
bridges
canals
causeways
36
Who built monuments, stone pavements, and had a drainage system?
Olmec
Mayan
Inca
Aztec
37
Where were the Cherokee from?
Georgia
Solitude
Arizona
Florida
38
What group lived in longhouses?
Sioux
Apache
Cherokee
Iroquois
39
What was potlatch?
a game
a secret chamber
something they put in peacepipes
a celebration
40
Which culture were farmers and traders?
Hopewell
Adena
Cahokian
Anasazi
41
Machu Picchu was a
civilization found on a mountain in Mexico
tribal name of Indians in Mexico
civilization found by Bingham
disease
42
What group mastered suspension bridges and roads?
Inca
Olmec
Mayan
Aztec
43
What is it called when leaders have both political and religious power?
Monarchy
Dictatorship
Democracy
Theocracy
44
What is Beringia today?
Bering Strait
a tribe
a city in Alaska
a ceremony
45
What culture lived in the 4 corners area?
Adena
Anasazi
Mississippian
Hopewell
46
Which group is responsible for the Mexican flag?
Aztec
Mayan
Olmec
Inca
47
What peninsula did the Mayan culture flourish?
Yucatan
Florida
Guatamaula
Panama
48
What commodity were Conquistadors after?
gold
silver
oil
lumber
49
What was the culture that died out from the Guatemala area?
Inca
Olmec
Mayan
Aztec
50
The Native American groups living in North America around 1492
were remarkably similar
were dependent on hunting and gathering for food
varied according the the environments in which they lived
had developed advanced farming techniques
