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The Americas

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where do scientists believe the first Americans traveled from?

a)

Eastern Asia

b)

Africa

c)

Europe

d)

Western Asia

2.

What are the two theories that explain how the first Americans traveled to the Americas?

a)

Land Bridge to Alaska, Boat

b)

Land Bridge, Swam

c)

Boat, Land Bridge to the Caribbean

d)

Boat, Land Bridge to Central America

3.

How were the Aztec and Inca similar?

a)

Priests sacrificed humans to please the gods

b)

Power of the government was decentralized

c)

A centralized government controlled the empire

d)

Both created a confederacy

4.

Which mountain range did the early Americans mostly settle?

a)

Rocky Mountains

b)

Appalachian Mountains

c)

Andes Mountains

d)

Smoky Mountains

5.

Which early civilization carved terraces in the side of mountains for farming purposes?

a)

Inca

b)

Aztec

c)

Olmec

d)

Maya

6.

Which two civilizations had both a 260-day calendar and a 365-day calendar?

a)

Maya and Inca

b)

Maya and Aztec

c)

Aztec and Inca

d)

Inca and Olmec

7.

What are the four geographical regions of the Americas?

a)

North America, South America, Alaska, and the Caribbean

b)

North America, South America, the Caribbean, and the Artic

c)

South America, the Caribbean, Central America, and the Arctic

d)

South America, North America, Central America, and the Caribbean

8.

A land bridge to Alaska was caused by

a)

Archaeologists

b)

Metal tools

c)

the Last Ice Age

d)

a drought that drained the ocean

9.

Why did the Maya seek captives in war?

a)

to use as household servants

b)

to work the land

c)

to use as slaves to build pyramids

d)

to marry Mayan people

10.

Societies were organized in Mayan culture as large areas called....

a)

continents

b)

states

c)

regimes

d)

city-states

11.

What farming practice did the Incas use to increase agricultural space?

a)

slash-and-burn

b)

chinampas

c)

milpas

d)

coastal flooding

12.

Which of the following resulted in permanent settlements in Mesoamerica?

a)

the invention of a written language

b)

the specialization of labor

c)

the development of agriculture

d)

the invention of pottery

13.

Where did the Olmec establish their civilization?

a)

present-day Peru

b)

South central Mexico

c)

Gulf of Mexico Coast

d)

Yucatan Peninsula