Where did the Mayans live?

• Desert of South America

• Arctic Circle

• Southern Mexico and Central America

• Woodlands of North America

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What was the Mayan religion like?

• They believed in one god

• They believed in many gods (polytheistic)

• They didn't believe in any gods

• They didn't believe in animal or human sacrifices

How did the Mayan civilization end?

• A neighboring tribe conquered them

• They were captured by Portuguese sailors

• Cortes conquered them

• They abandoned their cities and disappeared

How did the first Americans possibly get to America?

• They crossed a land bridge from Asia to America

• They swam across the Bering Strait

• They rode wooly mammoths over the ice

• They built a bridge across the water

What led to the invention of agriculture?

• People got tired of always eating wooly mammoths

• Ice melted and animals died so there was little food

• Other people taught them how to plant seeds

• They accidentally started growing crops

How did the Mayan people communicate?

• They used hieroglyphics

• They used sign language

• They only used oral language and story telling

• Each city-state spoke its own language

What were chinampas?

• the name for Aztec city-states

• people who lived in Tenochtitlan

• floating gardens used as irrigation by the Aztecs

• walls of skulls at temples

The Aztec civilization had a class structure

• True

• False

What's the name of the Aztec Capital?

• Texcoco

• Chinapa

• Templo Mayor

• Tenochtitlan

A city with its surrounding territory forms an independent state is

• a city state

• a chinapas

• a temple

• a city capital