Ch 16 People and Empires in the Americas

The potlatch ceremony was used by the peoples of the Northwest as a way to

• cure illness

• prepare for war

• appease the gods

• display personal wealth

By the AD 900s, the Anasazi were living in

• tepees

• tents

• pueblos

• huts

The purpose of the Iroquois League was to

• wage war on non-Iroquois tribes

• establish trade routes to Mesoamerica

• promote joint defense and cooperation among tribes

• build a city that would be a trade and military center

The Maya based their calendar on careful observations of

• the planet, sun, and moon

• the change in the seasons

• yearly precipitation patterns

• the migration of birds

The Maya wrote on a bark-paper book known as a

• glyph

• mita

• quipu

• codex

The Toltecs were all of the following EXCEPT

• a Mesoamerican culture

• the ancestors of the Aztec

• builders of pyramids and temples

• a warlike people who built an empire through conquest

In 1428, the Aztecs joined with two other city-states--Texcoco and Tlacopan--form

• the Triple Alliance

• Teotihuacan

• the orejones

• the Incan Empire

The main demand that the Incan state placed on its subjects was the mita, which was a tribute of

• labor

• gold

• war captives

• agricultural products

Conquered provinces resented Aztec rule because the Aztecs

• forced conquered people to migrate

• used conquered people as soldiers

• used conquered people for human sacrifice

• forced conquered people to change their agricultural methods

The Inca expanded quickly under the leadership of

• Montezuma

• Huascar

• Atahualpa

• Pachacuti