Americas Quizizz

Archaeologists think that this is probably the route that the first people took to discover America

• by boat from Spain to the Carribean

• By boat from Finland to Greenland

• By landbridge from Asia to Alaska

• By plane from China to the US

The claim that all indigenous people in the Americas were hunter-gatherers could be disproven by the

• Sioux

• Inuit

• Comanche

• Mayans

This individual conquered the Aztecs and destroyed Tenochitlan

• Pizzaro

• Charles V

• Cortes

• Moctezuma

This individual conquered the Incas and kidnapped and killed the Sapa Inca

• Pizzaro

• Charles V

• Cortes

• Althualpa

Dona Marina was influential because she

• translated for Cortes and helped him get native allies

• led Incan resistance against Pizzaro

• negotiated peace between Aztecs and Cortes

• Went to Spain as a representative of Native Peoples

Spanish Conquistadors were motivated by

• a desire to make peace with Natives

• a desire to create new, independent nations

• a desire for gold, glory and god

• a desire to learn about native cultures

This civilization was known for creating large geoglyphs in a desert in Peru

• Inca

• Chavin

• Moche

• Nazca

This system enslaved native peoples and forced them to work on plantations and in mines

• Mercantilism

• Encomienda

• Colonization

• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Which of the following is true about people in the Americas?

• they did not domesticate any animals

• they invented writing systems in Mesoamerica

• they did not build cities

• they all lived as Hunter-Gatherers

Quipu is important because

• it is an incan engineering system

• it is an Incan calendar

• it is an Incan writing system

• It is an Incan method of keeping records of numbers and counting