Test 2 (Chapter 6

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There were farming villages in Central and South America by

5000 b.c.e

What probably caused the decline of Teotihuacan?

Agricultural Crises

What was a pueblo

An adobe communal house in Anasazi lands

Among the mounted nomads who came to dominate much of the southwestern plains of north america 1500 c.e. were the

Apache and Navajo

Staple crops of the Olmec civilization included

Beans, corns, and squash

Providing a valuable resource for later historians, this Spaniard recorded his impression of Aztec society during a visit in the early 16th century

Bernal Diaz

Which of the following is not a characteristic shared by the civilization of the western hemisphere with those of the old world?

C

The largest city in North America until 19th century Philadelphia was located

Cahokia

Aztec society

Did not posses a writing system as such, although it developed hieroglyphs

The earliest collective civiliation in Central Andes was the

Inka

An alliance of Native Americans to aviod war was formed by which tribe?

Iroquois

In analyzing Aztec cosmology

It contained a distinct element of fatalism that was inherent in the creation myth

What was the outcomes of matches in the sacred ball court?

Losing players were sacrificed to the gods.

The tuber cultivated by the Arawak, which is used today to manufacture tapioca, is

Manioc

The Moche cuulture

May have been ended by environmental changes

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

Obsidian and cacao trees

The first civilization in mesoamerica was the

Olmec

Who was the inka king who began conquests that led to the creation of their Empire?

Pachaluti

The Aztec capital was

Tenochtitlan

What is unusual about Nazca lines

They are onlu visible from considerable elevation

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

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

Chichen Irza was controlled by which civilization

Toltec

True/False At Cahokia, near East Saint Louis, archaeologists have discovered a burial mound more than 98 feet high with a base larger than Egypt's pyramids

True

True/False In contrast with the Aztecs, the Inka created a highly centralized state

True

In south america by 2000 b.c.e peoples

Were sailing the pacific in wind powered balsa wood rafts

Women in Aztec society were granted what position of privilege

Women preformed marriage ceremonies

The chinampas

were agricultural plots built on swampy islands

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 inka capital was

Cuzco

The Mayan civilization

Declined in the eighth or ninth centuries C.E.

The Olmec peoples

Developed a system of hieroglyphics

Anasazi society possibly declined for all of the following reasons except

Extensive floods

True/False Because soil lacked sufficient nutrients, agriculture never developed in the Amazon region

False

True/False Pachakuti created a highly centralized Aztec state

False

True/False The Aztec Capital was Teotihuacan

False

True/False The Maya is considered to be the "Mother Civilization" of Mesoamerica

False

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

It developed in the High mountainous areas of central america

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

The Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan was unusual because

It was centered on an island in the middle of lake texcoco

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

Who was the supreme deity among the Aztec pantheon?

Omleteotl

The supreme Mayan god Itzamna is credited with bringing to the Mayans all of the following except

Pyramids

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

Stone of the Fifth Sun

In which areas were the Mayan and Aztec civilizations similar?

They both practiced human sacrifices.

True/False The Inka had no writing system, but kept records using a system of knotted stings called quipu

True

True/False The Maya were the only Mesoamerican people to have a complete written language.

True

True/False The pyramid of the sun was built by the people of Teotihuacan in the Fifth century CE

True

Aztec writing

Was based upon hieroglyphs that represented an object or concept

South America

Was populated only as recently as 500 c.e.

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

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

The civilization of the inka

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

A significant characteristic of south america agriculture is

dependence on extensive, complex irrigation of crops


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