Americas Quiz #1 Practice

Feathers are a...

• natural resource

• nonrenewable resource

What is Meso-America?

• region from Northern Mexico to Central America where Native american societies grew.

• Region from North America to South America.

• Region from South America to Antarctica.

• Region from Europe to Africa.

This piece of land sticks out into the Gulf of mexico and the Caribbean Ocean and was home to important Meso-American civilizations

• Belize

• Yucatan Peninsula

• Cape Horn

• Tierra del Fuego

What is likely the way ideas were spread from one civilization to another in Pre-Columbian Meso-America?

• Trade between people of different areas who had access to different goods.

• A written language was used to share ideas with other people.

• The ideas didn't spread until after Columbus arrived.

• There is no way to guess how the ideas were shared.

Meso-American civilizations raised these crops..

• Maize

• Beans

• Cacao

• All of the above

Meso-American civilizations include..

• Olmec

• Aztec

• Maya

• All of the above

In Meso-America, agriculture (farming) lead to..

• Money

• Festivals

• Settled villages

• Work

How did the oldest civilization in Meso-America get its name?

• The Aztecs wrote about them and called them the Rubber People.

• The name was found in the written glyphs.

• Historians came up with the name after discovering one of their cities.

• Their name means first inhabitants.

The Yucatan Peninsula is in present-day..

• Honduras

• Mexico

• Costa Rica

• Peru

Which civilization settled in the Yucatan Peninsula?

• Maya

• Aztec

• Inca