Ancient Civilizations of the Americas

The first American civilization was established by which of the following?

• Incas

• Olmecs

• Aztecs

• Mayans

The reason we know so much about Aztec culture is because…

• Mr. Herthum is friends with them

• They called on the phone

• Historians guessed about everything

• They wrote books about themselves

Who was prohibited from using the roads of the Incan empire?

• the Sapa Inca

• messengers

• the army

• ordinary people

Who controlled harvests in the Incan empire?

• farmers

• government officials

• priests

• soldiers

Since 300 B.C., farmers have been using the land in present day Arizona. These farms were planted by people called…

• Inuits

• Ancestral Puebloans

• Hohokam or “Vanished Ones”

• Mississippians

Between 1150 A.D. and 1300 A.D., the Ancestral Puebloans built their famous cliff residences in present day…

• Arizona

• New Mexico

• Utah

• Colorado

The greatest Mississippian center, Cahokia, was located in present day…

• Indiana

• Illinois

• Missouri

• Ohio

The Inuits settled in northern Canada around…

• 3000 B.C.

• 2000 B.C.

• 4000 B.C.

• 1000 B.C.

The ceremony known as Potlach is practiced in Canada and NW coast of America to acknowledge the host’s high status within society by…

• organizing military parades

• holding religious rituals

• performing traditional dances

• distributing lavish gifts to a large number of guests

The Iroquois League was an alliance of five groups including all of the following except…

• Seneca

• Onondaga

• Cherokee

• Mohawk