S.S. civilizations of the Americas

The structures found by archaeologists in Maya cities like Tikal built more than 1000 years ago are made of

Stone

Which of these modern countries is in the area where Maya civilization developed and is home to large numbers of Maya today

Guatemala

What made it possible for the Olmecs and the Maya to create permanent settlements

Farming

Maya who lived in many different communities over a wide area shared the same

Calendar

One skill that the Maya adapted from the Olmecs was a way to

Write by using pictures as symbols

Maya priests led rituals and offered sacrifices. What was another role of the priests

To foretell the future

Which of these foods would have been new to the Maya when it was introduced from Europe after 1500

Sugar

How was the jaguar important to the Maya

It was important to their religion

What was an important use of the sacred round

To determine when to plant crops

Which agricultural technique did the Maya use to farm in the mountains

Terraces

What was the biggest problem with slash-and-burn agriculture

It wore out the soil

When the cities of the southern lowlands collapsed what took their places

Jungle

A pilgrimage site for Aztecs was the ruins of a city built by the

Teothihuacan

Which description best fits the valley of Mexico where the Aztec Empire arose

Fertile highland

what was one benefit of settling on land surrounded by Lake Texcoco

It was easy to defend

Why did the leader Itzcoatl destroy records of his peoples history

so he could tell a different story of their past

Why did the Aztecs of Tenochtitlan build chinampas

to enlarge their land area

At the Great Temple the Aztecs built a shrine to Tlaloc, the rain god. What does this suggest about the Aztecs

They depended on rain for planting

Why did the Aztecs in Tenochtitlan need the technologies like aqueducts, dikes, causeway and canals

Because they lived on islands

The Aztec Empire was based on tribute. This means that the people who lived in the empire

paid goods to the Aztec government

which of these facts best shows that war was the center of Aztec life

The men were trained as soldiers

this pattern of events happen with a number of city states: the Aztecs invited them to be an ally. They had 60 days to respond. If they refuse. The Aztecs declared war. Why?

to expand their empire

what weakness in the Aztec Empire did the Spanish take advantage of when they invaded Mexico

because conquered people kept their own customs, the empire lacked unity

Inca Empire stretched about 2500 miles. It did not have a written language. These facts explain why the Incas used

Runners to carry messages

A set of strings tied into knots called a quipu, was an aid for

Remembering information

Much of the land that was once the Inca Empire is in which countries today

Peru and Ecuador

How did the Incas develop the advanced, well-planned cities and elaborate irrigation methods

Adapted them from the Chimus

According to Incan legend the Inca tribe began when the sun gods son

Rose out of Lake Titicaca

The Incas lived for hundreds of years without spreading their civilization. What set off the expansion of their empire

An attack by a neighboring people

What did the Incas create to hold their empire together

A network of roads

Curacas’s are

Local leaders of concurred people

How would an Incan priest most likely use an oracle

To ask advice about the future

When chosen women was 12 years old she would most likely be

Studying in a convent

After the Incas conquered a new area, why were local leaders and their sons brought to Cuzco

To learn Incan law and language

What did the Sapa Inca typically do after a rebellion by a conquered tribe

Replace the local leader

What is the highest Lake and legendary birthplace of the Incas

Lake Titicaca

The Inca reached its peak at the same time of which empire

Aztec

When was the decline of the Mayan empire

900A.D.-1500A.D. Post-classic Maya