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.