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1
What is the world's oldest codex?
Gone with the Wind
The bible
The Magna Carta
The Popol Vuh
2
What kinds of people played the ball game in the Olmec society?
Peasants
Slaves
Upper Classs
Merchants
3
What do the rubber balls tell us about the Olmecs?
They knew how to manipulate and use the rubber
They played sports
They lived in an area with rubber trees
All of the above
4
What animal did the Olmec's believe had special powers?
Elephant
Tiger
Jaguar
Cougar
5
How tall is Pyramid IV?
202 feet
212 feet
198 feet
1,112 feet
6
Why was a Religious Calendar necessary?
Needed to know when to attack enemies
Needed to know which days were lucky and unlucky
All of the above
Needed to know when to plant crops
7
What is the northern border of the tropics?
Scorpio
Capricorn
Orion
Cancer
8
What building that the Mayan's created was the tallest in the America's for 1000 years?
Pyramid V
Pyramid IV
Pyramid II
Pyramid of Giza
9
How many glyphs were there?
100
500
1300
800
10
What are two other names for Middle America?
Meso America/South America
Central America/Meso America
Central America/North America
Meso America/North America
11
What did the rivers deposit on the soil to make it fertile?
Silk
Manure
All of the above
Silt
12
How short was the Mayan Calendar from an actual year?
5 days
.0002 days
.02 days
.002 days
13
What is the capital of the Olmec Empire?
Chechen Itza
Tikal
La Venta
Machu Picchu
14
In what year did the Mayan's say Pakal should be celebrated?
4772 B.C.E.
4772 C.E.
2012 B.C.E.
2012 C.E.
15
Which of the two kingdoms used city-states?
Olmecs
Mayans
16
What represents zero in the Mayan math system?
Egg
Shell
0
Bread
17
What is a b'ak'tun?
A year of the Mayan calendar
A famous Mayan Leader
An age of the Mayan calendar
The end of the world
18
On what continent is Middle America?
North America
Central America
South America
Mexico
19
What did the Mayan's say would end on December 20, 2012?
The world
Their civilization
All of the above
Their b'ak'tun
20
Who did the Mayans say people should celebrate in the future that proves they didn't predict the end of the world?
Montezuma II
None of the above
Tikal
Pakal
21
What is the southern border of the Tropics called?
Capricorn
Copernicus
Orion
Scorpio
22
What does a glyph represent?
A picture
A whole sentence
A whole word or syllable
An individual letter
23
What did the people who discovered America cross?
The Bering Strait
New Mexico
Russia
The Pacific Ocean
24
What represents 1-4 in the Mayan math system?
Shell
dots
slashes
bar
25
What is the belief in many gods?
All of the above
Polytheistic
Monotheistic
Multitheistic
26
If a day was unlucky in the Mayan Religious calendar, what did that mean?
It was always raining
All of the above
It was devoted to a bad god
That day was usually cold
27
What was the Mayan's largest city called?
Tikal
Chechen Itza
Mexico City
La Venta
28
What continents did the land bridge over the Bering Strait connect?
Europe/Asia
Asia/North America
Africa/North America
North America/South America
29
What is the type of farming where you cut down the jungle, burn it, and then use the fertilized ash to plant crops?
Burning Jungle Farming
None of the above
The Olmec Way
Slash and Burn Farming
30
What did the Mayans use as currency?
Lima Beans
Cocoa Beans
Dollars
Rice
31
What were the people who discovered America called?
The Spanish
Paleo Indians
Christopher Columbus
Cherokee Indians
32
How were the city-states linked?
Alliance/government
Government/Trade
All of the above
Alliance/Trade
33
What is any book with a spine known as?
Non Fiction Book
Popol Vuh
Fiction book
Codex
34
What do the stone heads tell us about the Olmecs?
They had a technological device to move something of that weight
They had tools to carve something of that nature
They were a successful society with free time
All of the above
35
What was the way a team won the ball game?
They got it through a soccer type goal
They got the ball to the other side of the field
They got it through an elevated hoop
They killed the players on the other team
36
What represents five in the Mayan math system?
Shell
a bar
5 tallys with a slash
None of the above
37
What b'ak'tun ended on December 20, 2012?
14th
13th
12th
15th
38
What peninsula was the Mayan Kingdom located on?
Iberian
Yucatan
Italian
Florida
39
Mayans were successful farmers because they had extra goods they could trade, which is called a...
Extra
Plus
Surplus
Import
40
Who used the flooding river method of farming?
Olmecs
Egypt
China
All of the above
41
What does the word "Olmec" mean?
People of the jaguar
People of the rubber country
Belief in many gods
One who serves
42
What was the purpose of the Solar Calendar?
Let them know when to travel to new lands
Let them know if days were lucky or unlucky
Let them know when to plant crops and attack enemies
All of the above
43
How many days were in the Mayan Religious Calendar?
365
360
260
364
44
What is a city-state?
A city with it's own government
A city with an army
All of the above
A city that acts like it's own country
45
How heavy were the stone heads in La Venta?
16-88 thousand pounds
8 to 44 thousand pounds
10 to 50 thousand pounds
5 to 20 thousand pounds
46
What is the base unit of the Mayan math system?
5
50
10
20
47
What was the 82 foot mound that currently sits in the center of La Venta?
A Statue
A temple
A government building
A Monument
48
What were the two Mayan Calendars called?
None of the above
God/Religious
Solar/Religious
Yearly/Solar
49
What can the Mayan math system be compared to?
Tally system
Hieroglyphics
None of the above
Roman Numerals
50
What were the first people to step foot in America thought to be chasing?
Growing Crops
Buffalo
Warm Weather
Reindeer
51
How many days were in the Mayan Solar Calendar?
260
365
364
360
52
What was the Mayan writing called?
Hieroglyphics
Cunieform
Popul Vuh
Glyphs
