POP Quiz - Gallery Dash

Poster #1's Environmental section would support which of the following claims?

• Natives had no natural diseases until the arrival of Europeans.

• The majority of illnesses that Mesoamerican experienced were similar to those found in Asia.

• Mesoamericans lived a healthy lifestyle eliminating most forms of disease.

• Mesoamericans experienced many different outbreaks of disease before the arrival of Europeans, including the spread of Pinta.

This important historical figure, identified in poster #2, not only helped to turn Timbuktu into one of the most important trade centers in Africa, but through his enormous wealth, as contributed to the soread of the Islamic faith?

• Ibn Battuta

• Marco Polo

• Mansa Musa

• Zheng He

In addition to their magnificent stone structures, the native people of "Great Zimbabwe" were also responsible for developing an early version of this contraption (Seen in Poster #3)?

• Windmills, which may have been used to crush grains.

• Air-conditioning, used to lower the temperature of a room.

• Razors for shaving and trimming.

• Handheld compasses used for finding one's way when lost.

Use Poster #4 to deduce what was NOT a common use for Quipus?

• To keep account how much a person owes someone else.

• To communicate between delegates of different Inca sects.

• To determine a person's age and their numeric place within their family.

According to Poster #5, the Mexica Economy was based on what?

• slave trade; captured prisoners not worthy of human sacrifice were often traded for goods the Aztec needed.

• raiding and pillaging neighboring tribes to collect valuable goods.

• Agriculture; utilizing chinampas, Aztec Pochtecas traveled throughout the Americas to trade goods.

• Gold and silver which they traded with others to get their seeds and other necessary forms of sustainance.

Poster #6 identifies what key difference between Great Zimbabwe and Medieval Europe Feudal landscape?

• Only Europeans felt the need to build large stone structures for their nobility and upper classes.

• Great Zimbabwe held a centralized government that maintained law and order throughout all surrounding regions.

• Power and wealth in Great Zimbabwe was determined by the amount of cattle one possessed, not the amount of land.

• Only Europeans held their religious beliefs higher than their ruling leadership as the Zimbabwean people believed their pharaohs to be Gods.

According to Poster #7, what was NOT spread during the Bantu Migrations?

• Bantu language and culture.

• Serious epidemic diseases such as Malaria and Small Pox.

• Their knowledge of iron working and metallurgy.

• Foods the Bantu adopted or recieved through trade.

Poster #8 identifies an important cultural trait about Ethiopia that separates it from nearby regions. Which answer reflects this important difference?

• Ethiopia was the only African state invaded by Crusaders.

• Ethiopians practiced the Christian faith in an area that was predominantly islamic.

• Ethiopians maintained their animalistic beliefs despite others adopting abrahamic faiths such as Judaism and Islam.

• Ethiopia was a Hindu kingdom, whose Swami leadership built large stone temples.

What inference can be made comparing the two stone structures glued to poster #9?

• Both of these societies recognized the importance of maintaining their streets and roads with stone bricks.

• It was not uncommon for state-building societies to construct stone temples to support their religious beliefs and legitimize the powers of their leadership.

• Each of these states was a major trade hub and used these stone structures to maintain a strong market system.

• Each had to create structures such as aqueducts to transport water to their semi-arid region.

While developing, Poster #10 identifies a common problem Ethiopia experienced that other many early modern civilizations struggled with including Medieval Europe?

• Sanitation issues as systematic plumbing had yet to be implemented.

• Raiders often had the upper-hand as few fortifications existed.

• The people lacked the necessary immunities to survive even common diseases.

• Many rejected Christian beliefs for their own indigenous beliefs.