Pre-Columbian Americas

Teotihuacan was

• the greatest Toltec king.

• the largest early Mesoamerican city.

• the Aztec god of the dead.

• the Inca goddess of fertility.

The influence of the Maya on the Toltecs can be seen in the similarities between Tula and the Maya city of

• Tenochtitlan.

• Teotihuacan.

• Cahokia.

• Chichén Itzá.

The Toltec state collapsed by around 1175 because

• they were conquered by a powerful Aztec army.

• of a combination of civil conflict and nomadic invasion.

• of the spread of smallpox.

• of the resurgence of Maya power.

Mexica

• was the name of the lake where the Aztecs established their capital.

• were the people who were later called Aztecs.

• was the principal god of the early Aztecs.

• was the leading pre-Inca society in South America.

The capital of the Aztec empire was

• Tenochtitlan.

• Cuzco.

• Teotihuacan.

• Tula.

The "chinampa system" refers to the

• process by which the Aztecs determined victims for ritualistic sacrifice.

• Aztec practice of dredging fertile muck from the lake's bottom.

• core of the Inca imperial administrative structure.

• Inca system for memorizing facts without the use of a written language.

In the Aztec social hierarchy, most of the honors and rewards went to the

• priests.

• farmers.

• military elite.

• bureaucrats.

Women in Aztec society

• played a much more important role than in Inca society.

• played almost no political role.

• were significant because of the nature of matrilineal society.

• determined the identity of the emperor.

The Aztecs viewed human sacrifice as a(n)

• means of mass entertainment.

• necessary evil to maintain their alliance with the wealthy Inca.

• essential ritual to ensure the world's survival.

• form of state terrorism to terrify their enemies into submission.

Most Aztec human sacrifices were in honor of

• Huitzilopochtli.

• Quetzalcóatl.

• Itzcóatl.

• Viracocha.