Challenge 4: The Americas Before/After Columbus

What was Cahokia?

• A pyramid made of packed earth that rose in three major terraces to a height of one hundred feet.

• A mound used to enclose sacred ceremonial spaces in which great crowds would gather.

• A large circle of cedar posts that numbered in multiples of twelve, indicating a recognition of the number of lunar months in a year.

• A city built by American Indians along the Mississippi River almost a thousand years ago.

Which group lived in cliff dwellings, also known as pueblos?

• Inuit

• Maya

• Mound Builders

• Anasazi

Columbus thought that you could reach Asia by sailing ____ across the Atlantic Ocean.

• east

• west

• north

• south

What was the capitol of the Aztec empire?

• Tenochan

• tenochtitlan

• Miamoi

• Mexico city

The Aztec Empire lived in central ___________.

• America

• Mexico

• Panama

• Cuba

What was the primary source of food, clothing, tools, shelter for the Plains Indians?

• Elk

• Deer

• Horses

• Bison

The Inca were located at what letter on the map?
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• A
• B
• C

How did the Inca overcome their geographic challenges?

• They constructed mita in the Andes Mts.

• They constructed roads and used terrace farming.

• They developed terrace farming on the Yucatan Peninsula.

• They constructed chinampas on a lake.

Pacific Northwest Indians made ______________ poles to tell stories and identify families.

• north

• totem

• story

• ancestery

The Northwest Indians lived from the southern tip of Alaska to the northern tip of ________.

• Washington

• Wyoming

• California

• Canada