Ancestral America 3.0 - all 5

The ball used in the Mesoamerican ball game was made of ...

• rubber

• copper

• aluminum

• leather

The prefix "meso" as in Mesoamerica, means ...

• Table

• Latin

• well-cooked

• Middle

What color is Jade?

• green

• copper colored

• transparent purple

• irridescent purple

Olmec civilization was ...

• the biggest civilization in Africa

• the earliest known civilization in Mesoamerica.

• isolated and had no effect on its neighbors

• peaceful and never attacked their neighbors

The Mayans borrowed many ideas from the Olmecs, like writing, the calendar and the ball game. This is part of a process called ​ (a)   ​ (b)   .​

• cultural
• diffusion
• expansion
• change

Mayan cities collapsed due to ______________ and _____________.

• constant warfare

• soft limestone bedrock

• overuse by pilgrims

• ecological destruction

The Mayans adopted the calendar, the writing system and ___________ from the Olmec.

• the structure of government

• highways

• the Ball Game

• clothing styles

Of all the pre-Columbian societies we have studied, only one had a writing system: that was the ____________

• Inca

• Haudenosaunee

• Ancestral Puebloans

• Mayans

By 950 CE, the Mayan population...​ (a)  

• adopted pacifism and renounced blood sacrifice
• continued to expand
• was taken up in flying saucers by aliens
• had crashed, 90% of the Maya perished

As a result of the Maya being constantly at war ... (Choose all the correct answers)

• the city leaders became masters of strategy

• the people were crowded inside defensive walls

• the Mayans got very good at war

• 
  the best and brightest were killed