WH - Chapter 16 - People and Empires in the Americas (500-1500)

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 A.D. 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 planets, 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 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 - to

form?

• a 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 soliders.

• 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