Pre-Columbian Americas Quiz

The Mayans created 

• a map system
• a water system
• an accurate calendar
• clothing

Which of these describes the Mayan Government?

• Merchants controlled the government

• A High Priest was the Emperor

• City-states with governors

• Scholar-Bureaucrats

A Quipu is...

• knotted strings to record numbers

• the clan that took power in the Incan state

• a labor force of slaves in South American empires

• a priest of the Incas that became powerful

What system of farming did the Inca develop in order to farm in the mountains? 

• Chinampas
• Irrigation
• Aqueducts
• Terrace Farming

The religion of the Aztecs can be best described as:

• Monotheistic & Christian

• Polytheistic & Sacrificial

• Monotheistic & Judaism

• Polytheistic & Peacful

Capital of the Aztec empire, built in the middle of a lake.

• Polytheism

• Andes Mountains

• Pachacuti

• Tenochtitlan

What did the Incas create to hold their empire together?

• a network of roads

• a central market

• a school for sons of commoners

• a flock of trained pigeons

The Aztec Empire used what system to control their empire?

• reciprocal

• mita

• tributary

• ayllu

For Farming, Aztecs built _____________ ______________ called chinampas.

• Terrace, lands

• Tree, breakers

• Floating, Gardens

• water, aqueduct

In the Inca Empire, commoners

• carved terraces and planted crops

• farmed communal lands and worked on state-owned farms

• served in the army and on building projects

• all of the above