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Pre-Columbian Americas

Total questions: 41

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Great Serpent Mound was found in what state?

a)

Alabama

b)

Illinois

c)

New Mexico

d)

Ohio

2.

The mounds of Cahokia was found in what state?

a)

Alabama

b)

Illinois

c)

New Mexico

d)

Ohio

3.

The Anasazi villages of Chaco Canyon was found in what state?

a)

Alabama

b)

Illinois

c)

New Mexico

d)

Ohio

4.

The Mound Builders lived between what two bodies of water?

a)

Atlantic Ocean and Mississippi River

b)

Atlantic Ocean and Hudson River

c)

Great Lakes and Ohio River

d)

Pacific Ocean and Mississippi River

5.

Which of the Mound Builders groups was the oldest?

a)

Adena

b)

Hopewell

c)

Mississippians

6.

Which of the Mound Builders groups was the youngest?

a)

Adena

b)

Hopewell

c)

Mississippians

7.

What two foods did the mound builders mainly grew?

a)

Beans and Maize

b)

Beans and Squash

c)

Maize and Watermelon

d)

Maize and Corn

8.

The name Anasazi translates to what?

a)

Alien Ones

b)

Ancient Ones

c)

Eldest Ones

d)

Young Ones

9.

What was the name of Anasazi homes?

a)

Mandan

b)

Mounds

c)

Pueblos

d)

Tipis

10.

These were round rooms used for special religious ceremonies.

a)

Kivas

b)

Mounds

c)

Pueblos

d)

Tipis

11.

This was how the Pueblo people irrigated their crops.

a)

Buckets

b)

Canals

c)

Hoses

d)

Rivers

12.

Spirits of the Pueblo people believe in that control nature

a)

ItzamNa

b)

Jaguar God

c)

Kachina

d)

Zeus

13.

Which two of these people where descendants of the Pueblo People?

a)

Hopi

b)

Iroquois

c)

Mandan

d)

Zuni

14.

Which Great Plains tribe lived along the Missouri River in lodges

a)

Hopi

b)

Iroquois

c)

Mandan

d)

Zuni

15.

Dwellings used by Plains Indians that could be taken from place to place.

a)

Kivas

b)

Mounds

c)

Pueblos

d)

Tipis

16.

Large grassland area west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains.

a)

Great Plains

b)

Mammoth Steppe

c)

Sahara

d)

Savanna

17.

Which of these was not a nation that made up the Iroquois League?

a)

Cayuga

b)

Inca

c)

Mohawk

d)

Oneida

e)

Onondaga

18.

Middle America located between United States and South America

a)

Chihuahua

b)

Mesoamerica

c)

West Indies

d)

Yucatan Peninsula

19.

It divides the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico

a)

Chihuahua

b)

Mesoamerica

c)

West Indies

d)

Yucatan Peninsula

20.

Most of Mesoamerica is located where?

a)

Belize

b)

Guatemala

c)

Mexico

d)

Nicaragua

21.

The height of land above sea level

a)

Elevation

b)

Mountains

c)

Sea Level

d)

Volcanoes

22.

A type of farming in which patches of land are prepared for planting by cutting down and burning the natural vegetation

a)

Ashfall agriculture

b)

Firestorm agriculture

c)

Ocean agriculture

d)

Slash-and-burn agriculture

23.

A tropical American tree whose seeds are used to produce chocolate

a)

Beans

b)

Cacao

c)

Maize

d)

Squash

24.

Olmec lived in what modern country?

a)

Belize

b)

Guatemala

c)

Mexico

d)

Nicaragua

25.

A very rich and fertile soil deposited by flowing water

a)

Alluvial Soil

b)

Great Soil

c)

Lemuria Soil

d)

Perfect Soil

26.

Pick the two most important cities in Olmec civilization.

a)

Cahokia

b)

La Venta

c)

San Lorenzo

d)

Tenochtitlan

27.

Who was the main god of the Mayans?

a)

ItzamNa

b)

Jaguar God

c)

Kachina

d)

Zeus

28.

Who was the chief god of the Olmec?

a)

ItzamNa

b)

Jaguar God

c)

Kachina

d)

Zeus

29.

The Olmec made their giant heads out of what?

a)

Basalt

b)

Concrete

c)

Granite

d)

Obsidian

30.

A culture that shapes and influences the customs and ideas of later cultures?

a)

Brother Culture

b)

Father Culture

c)

Mother Culture

d)

Third Cousin Twice Removed Culture

31.

The Mayans were located in all, but which of these countries?

a)

Belize

b)

Guatemala

c)

Mexico

d)

NIcaragua

32.

What was the highest ranking of the classes in Mayan culture?

a)

Nobility

b)

Peasant

c)

Ruling

d)

Slaves

33.

What was the lowest ranking of the classes in Mayan culture?

a)

Nobility

b)

Peasant

c)

Ruling

d)

Slaves

34.

Who ruled each Mayan city?

a)

Duke

b)

Emir

c)

King

d)

Sultan

35.

What number was discovered independently by the Mayans?

a)

Zero

b)

One

c)

Eighty-Nine

d)

Three hundred and sixty-two

36.

Pick the two astronomical events the Mayans predicted accurately.

a)

Eclipses of the Sun

b)

End of the World

c)

Orbit of Venus

d)

Orbit of Utapau

37.

Match the sculpture/building to the civilization that made it.

a)

Anasazi

b)

Mayans

c)

Mississippians

d)

Northwest Indians

e)

Olmec

38.

Match the sculpture/building to the civilization that made it.

a)

Anasazi

b)

Mayans

c)

Mississippians

d)

Northwest Indians

e)

Olmec

39.

Match the sculpture/building to the civilization that made it.

a)

Anasazi

b)

Mayans

c)

Mississippians

d)

Northwest Indians

e)

Olmec

40.

Match the sculpture/building to the civilization that made it.

a)

Anasazi

b)

Mayans

c)

Mississippians

d)

Northwest Indians

e)

Olmec

41.

Match the sculpture/building to the civilization that made it.

a)

Anasazi

b)

Mayans

c)

Mississippians

d)

Northwest Indians

e)

Olmec