HIST-101 Week #6
In the mid _______ century, the Ancient Pueblo peoples moved north to Mesa Verde.
10th
When was the Inca takeover in central Andes?
1400s
It is now generally accepted that human beings were living in the Americas at least ___________ years ago.
15,000
The first organized societies in the Andes happened when?
3500 BCE
There were farming villages in Central and South America by
5000 BCE
Among the mounted nomads who came to dominate much of the southwestern plains of North America after 1500 CE were the
Apache and Navajo.
Providing a valuable resource for later historians, this Spaniard recorded his impressions of Aztec society during a visit in the early sixteenth century:
Bernal Díaz.
The Inka capital was
Cuzco.
Which of the following is not a characteristic shared by the civilizations of the Western Hemisphere with those of the Old World?
Iron smelting
Which of the following is not true of the Olmec culture?
It developed in the high, mountainous areas of central Mexico.
Which of the following statements is the most accurate depiction of the Aztec Empire?
It was a confederation of localities linked by a feudal allegiance system in which a central ruler controlled an empire developed through military conquest.
Which of the following was not a detrimental factor in the technological development of the peoples of the Western Hemisphere?
Lack of established trade routes.
What is the system of calculating time based on a lunar calendar that called for the end of the current cycle of 5,200 years in the year 2012?
Long count
What was the outcome of matches in the sacred ball court?
Losing players were sacrificed to the gods.
The first civilization in Mesoamerica was the
Olmec.
Who was the supreme deity among the Aztec pantheon?
Ometeotl
Who was the Inca king who began the conquests that led to the creation of their empire?
Pachakuti
Mayan religion was
Polytheistic
The first signs of civilization in Mesoamerica appeared at the end of which time period?
Second millennium BCE
The massive Aztec stone carving in the form of a disc portraying the struggle between the forces of good and evil in the universe is the
Stone of the Fifth Sun.
What was the official name for "the world of the four quarters"?
Tahuantinsuyu
The Aztec capital was
Tenochtitlan
Which of the following is not accurate?
The Olmecs adopted many aspects of Inka culture.
In which areas were the Mayan and Aztec civilizations similar?
They both practiced human sacrifice.
What was the purpose of the human sacrifices practiced by the Aztecs?
To appease Huitzilopochtli, and thus delay the ultimate destruction of their world.
Chichen Itza was controlled by which civilization?
Toltec
This group expanded from the Andes foothills to the coast of modern Lima, Peru.
Wari.
Which of the following was not a characteristic of the large kinship groups of the Aztecs?
Women were required to work in the fields five days each week.
Aztec society was
a hierarchical dictatorship, with a privileged upper class and a downtrodden majority.
Most of the Aztec population belonged to large kinship groups called
calpulli.
The civilization of the Inca
constructed an impressive system of roads and bridges throughout its extensive domain.
Mayan civilization
declined in the eighth or ninth centuries C.E.
The Olmec peoples
developed a system of hieroglyphics
Aztec society
did not possess a writing system as such, although it developed hieroglyphs.
Anasazi society possibly declined for all of the following reasons except
extensive floods.
The majority of the Mayan population on the peninsula were
farmers.
In analyzing Aztec cosmology
it contained a distinct element of fatalism that was inherent in the creation myth.
The tuber cultivated by the Arawak, which is used today to manufacture tapioca, is
manioc.
The Moche culture
may have been ended by environmental changes.
The two commodities that enabled the Maya to develop trade relations with other civilizations in its region were
obsidian and cacao trees.
Cacao trees were the source of chocolate and drunk as a beverage by
the upper class
Aztec writing
was based upon hieroglyphs that represented an object or concept.
The chinampas
were agricultural plots built on swampy islands.
In South America, by 2000 BCE, people
were sailing the Pacific in wind-powered balsa wood rafts.