Chapter 1 Test

1. Between 1500 B.C. and 300 B.C, the _____ people farmed and built stone houses, monuments, and drainage systems.

• Maya
• Olmec
• Inca
• Aztec

2. Which of the following goods and/or foods were traded by the Mayan civilization?

• Fish
• Jewelery
• Beef
• Maize
• Jade statues

3. Early settlers hunted what kinds of animals with long spears?

• Elk
• Deer
• Mammoths
• Caribou

4. What civilization built their capitol city on Lake Texcoco after they saw an eagle with a snake in it's mouth land on a cactus?

• Olmec
• Maya
• Aztec
• Inca

5. Which method of getting food changed the nomadic way of life?

• Hunting
• Gathering
• Fishing
• Farming

6. A person who moves from place to place is known as a ________.

• Nomad
• Traveler
• Migrant
• Priest

7. A scientific method of determining the age of an artifact.

• Estimate
• Carbon dating
• Artifact
• Causeway

8. The Hohokam people built hundreds of miles of channels to _____ their crops in the hot desert of present-day Arizona.

• Trade
• Plant
• Irrigate
• Harvest

9. The strip of land that connected Russia to Alaska was called _________.

• Bering Strait
• Bering Sea
• Beringia
• Siberia

10. The Ancient Puebloans built great stone dwellings that Spanish explorers later called _______.

• Terraces
• Mounds
• Hohokam
• Pueblos