APWH Chapter 6 - The New World

Currently available evidence has shown the first humans in the Americas

A. In the view of Lois Leakey, may have arrived 100,000 years ago.

The Inca fell to the Spanish because

A. Spanish military equipment overmatched that of the Incas.

The Aztec capital was

A. Tenochtitlán

The civilization of the Inca

A. constructed an impressive system of roads and bridges throughout its extensive domain.

Amerindians of North America who inhabited the present states of Pennsylvania and New York as well as parts of southern Canada

A. established the League of Iroquois

The sacred ball court

A. had life or death implications for those who played upon it.

All of the following statements are true about Mayan religion except

A. its views about reincarnation resembled those of Buddhism.

The chinampas

A. reflected significant ability in the field of drainage agriculture.

Among the mounted nomads who came to dominate much of the southwestern plains of North America after 1500 C.E. were the

B. Apache and Navajo

Aztec society

B. Did not possess a written literature, although it developed hieroglyphs.

Which of the following statements is the most accurate depiction of the Aztec empire?

B. It was a confederation of localities linked by a feudal allegiance system in which a central ruler controlled an empire developed through military conquest.

The massive stone carving in the form of a disc portraying the struggle between the forces of good and evil in the universe is the

B. Stone of the Sun.

Which of the following best describes social and gender roles in the Aztec culture?

B. There were clear-cut lines of demarcation between the responsibilities and duties of males and females.

What was the purpose of the human sacrifices practiced by the Aztecs?

B. To appease Huitzilopochtli, and thus delay the ultimate destruction of their world.

Aztec Society was

B. a hierarchical dictatorship, with a privileged upper class and a downtrodden majority.

The population of the Inca civilization

B. was divided into provinces containing about 10,000 people

An extensive urban community was created at Chaco Canyon by the

C. Anasazi

The Spaniard responsible for the demise of the Aztec civilization was

C. Hernán Cortés.

Which of the following is not true of the Olmec culture?

C. It developed in the high, mountainous areas of central Mexico.

Which of the following was true about Teotihuacán?

C. It met its demise due to unexplained reasons.

Archaeologists call the region in which the first New World civilizations began

C. Mesoamerica

As the guiding deity of the entire population, the supreme Aztec god was

C. Ometeotl

Who was the Inca king who began the conquests that led to the creation of their empire?

C. Pachakuti

In the aftermath of Columbus and voyages of encounter, Europeans believed the first humans in the Americas might have been

C. Phoenician seafarers from Carthage.

Which of the following gods retained a higher level of cognizance in the Aztec psyche than most of their other gods, due primarily to its tenth-century departure from the Valley of Mexico and promised future victorious return?

C. Quetzalcoatl

Which civilization lived in terraces cut out of a mountainside located in the central Mexican highlands?

C. Zapotec

Most of the Aztec population belonged to large kinship groups called

C. calpulli

The civilizations that developed in the New World

C. did so in close coordination with civilizations in other parts of the world.

Aztec religion

C. employed human ritual sacrifices, often inolving large numbers of victims.

South America

C. has had human inhabitants for more than twelve thousand years.

A striking difference between the civilizations of the New and Old Worlds was that

C. in spite of a high degree of a cultural attainment, a number of New World civilizations still engaged in extensive human sacrifice in 1500

In analyzing Aztec cosmology

C. it assumed the existence of divine and material worlds.

The tuber civilization by the Arawak, that is used today to manufacture tapioca, is

C. manioc.

The Moche culture

C. may have been ended by major environmental changes, including both severe flooding and the spread of area deserts.

The two commodities that enabled the Maya to develop trade relations with other civilizations in its region were

C. obsidian and cacao trees

The Aztecs and Inca were alike in

C. the relative speed with which they were taken over by Spanish invaders

Which of the following is not accurate?

D. The Olmecs adopted many aspects of Aztec culture.

Which of the following was not a characteristic of the large kinship groups of the Aztecs?

D. Women were required to work in the fields five days each week.

If one were to compare societies of the Aztec and the Maya, the best characterization of that comparison would be that

D. both were agricultural societies that had substantial urban populations.

The Olmec peoples

D. developed a system of hieroglyphics

The archeological evidence of the presence of ball courts in Amerindian civilization centers is an indication at these societies

D. probably had contacts with Mesoamerican civilizations

Which of the following was not a factor in the demise of the Aztec civilization?

D. the attack of the French fleet in 1518

The Spanish figures who led the conquests of the Aztec and Inca empires, respectively, were

E. Hernán Cortés and Jorima Rousseau

The cities of Uxmal and Chichen Itza flourished under the

E. Toltecs

The Arawak developed their society

E. both b and c

Mayan Civilization

E. declined before 1000 C.E.

The reason for the decline of Mayan civilization

E. has never been absolutely determined.

Aztec writing

E. none of the above

In which areas were the Mayan and Aztec civilizations similar?

They both practiced human sacrifice.

The civilization of the Maya developed in the

Yucatan Peninsula