Mesoamerica Review

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What are the 5 levels of the Mayan class structure?

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The Ruler, Nobles and Priests, Merchants and Artisans, Peasants, and Slaves.

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What did the Artisans do?

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Made a wide variety of objects.

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Which rule is not true for the Pok-a-tok game? Players try to hit a solid rubber ball through a stone ring using their hands.

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Players try to hit a solid rubber ball through a stone ring using their hands.

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Which of the following are true? The Mayans only believed in 140 gods. The gods the Mayan believed in didn't have animal characteristics. The Mayan gods are forces or objects in nature that affect people’s daily lives. The Mayans believed gods created the world and could not easily influence or destroy it.

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Mayan gods are forces or objects in nature that affect people’s daily lives.

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Who did the Mayans sacrifice to gods?

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Orphans, slaves, and nobles captured during war.

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What did the Aztecs demand of the cities they defeated?

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They demanded that the people only had to pay tribute, honor the god Huitzilopochtil, and promise obedience to the Aztec ruler.

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How did the Aztecs know where to build their new city of Tenochtitlan?

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They saw an eagle with a long snake in its beak perched atop a cactus near the Lake of Texcoco.

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What is one aspect of Tenochtitlan that allowed many people to live there comfortably?

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At night, pine torches lit the streets so people could see.

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Where was the Aztec Civilization most near? Options: Panama, Ecuador, Chile, Guatemala

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Guatemala

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Who were the curacas?

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Leaders of people conquered by the Incas.