Indigenous Peoples of America

The first peoples to journey to the Americas were from

• Alaska

• South America

• Europe

• Asia

It is advanced that the first peoples crossed from the old world into the new world using a land bridge called

• Siberia

• Canada

• Beringia

• India

The first peoples who arrived in the new world, journeyed across it in what can be described generally as a ................ direction.

• easterly

• westerly

• southerly

• northerly

The Maya occupied land in which of these modern day countries?

• Belize

• Texas

• Venezuela

• Peru

The Mayas were not

• an advanced people

• a heterogenous people

• a mixture of people

• a homogenous people

How many periods of major developments did the Maya people have?

• 1

• 5

• None

• 2

Choose the general region in which the Mayan empire was located.

• Belize

• Guatemala

• Yucatan Peninsula

• Chile

The Mayan empire was made up of several

• chiefdoms

• city states

• towns

• big villages

At the very top of Mayan society was the

• high priest

• ahaw

• halach uinic

• batabobs

The halach uinic was assisted by a council called a

• batabob

• chultune

• milpa

• ah cuch cabob