Social Studies Summative Assessment – Maya, Aztec, and Inca

Life in the Americas before the arrival of Christopher Columbus was called the

• Pre Columbian Era

• Mesozoic Era

• Jurassic Era

• Ice Age

The native people of a region or their descendants are

• nomads

• archaeologists

• indigenous

• fossils

The Aztec lived in this area, which includes the southern part of Mexico and parts of Northern Central America.

• the Ice Free Corridor

• Beringia

• the Pre Columbian Era

• Mesoamerica

The Maya lived on the Yucatan, a piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides, which is also called

• a country

• an island

• a peninsula

• a city-state

The Aztec adapted to their environment by creating floating gardens called

• surplus

• chinampas

• droughts

• barters

Many territories and people who are controlled by one government is called

• an empire

• a myth

• a city-state

• a caravan

How countries make their money and provide people with goods and services is called their

• glyph

• irrigation

• quechua

• economy

The Inca kept records using a knotted string called a

• mita

• migration

• quechua

• quipu

A city with its own traditions, and its own government and laws is called a

• empire

• monarchy

• city-state

• democracy

The Incan Empire was located in

• the Yucatan Peninsula

• Mesoamerica

• South America

• Africa