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Benchmark 4 Review

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of these civilizations built mounds for their dead?

a)

Aztec and Inca

b)

Anasazi and Pueblo

c)

Adena and Hopewell

d)

Maya and Egyptian

2.

Which civilization was near woodlands in the southeast near a long river and large cities?

a)

Mississippian

b)

Maya

c)

Adena

d)

Pueblo

3.

Which of all of these Indian tribes are considered part of the Eastern Woodlands Indians?

a)

Adena, Hopewell, Anasazi

b)

Adena, Hopewell, Mississippian

c)

Maya, Anasazi, Aztec

d)

Mississippian, Pueblo, Anasazi

4.

What group of Indians captured water from the run off of mesas into canyons and used irrigation?

a)

Adena

b)

Hopewell

c)

Anasazi (Pueblo)

d)

Mississippian

5.

Where would you find the Serpent Mound?

a)

Yucatan Peninsula

b)

Along the Mississippi River

c)

Near Colorado

d)

In the Ohio Valley

6.

What was true about all of the civilizations in North America and Mesoamerica?

a)

Each one had monotheistic religious practices.

b)

Each had writing and number systems.

c)

Each adapted to their environment.

d)

Each had elaborate governmental systems.

7.

Because of the dry arid conditions faced by the Anasazi civilization, what forms of irrigation did they use. Choose two.

a)

sink holes

b)

floating gardens

c)

ditches

d)

canals

8.

Inca terrace farming and Aztec floating gardens are examples of what?

a)

slash and burn

b)

adaptation to geography

c)

religious practices

d)

forms of art

9.

How did the Aztec civilization become successful?

a)

by building an extensive road system

b)

by developing a unique calendar system

c)

by conducting human sacrifice to honor the gods

d)

by expanding agriculture through terrace farming and chinampas

10.

What was the result of Spanish conquistador, Hernan Cortes conquest of Tenochtitlan n 15221.

a)

new trade routes to Asia

b)

capture of Machu Picchu

c)

the Aztec empire fall

d)

Columbus discovered America.

11.

What was the cause for the decline of the Inca Empire?

a)

Dias killed the last emperor

b)

Pizarro killed the last emperor

c)

there was a food storage

d)

leaders were so cruel that the people left

12.

What were the bridges called that connected the island of Tenochtitlan to the mainland?

a)

trails

b)

moats

c)

causeways

d)

suspension

13.

What bizarre practice did the religious of the Aztecs do to honor their gods?

a)

give blood offerings

b)

Human sacrifice

c)

festivals

d)

praying to the one true God.

14.

Which of these did the Maya achieve? (3)

a)

magnetic compass

b)

calendar for farming and religion

c)

step pyramids and ball courts

d)

hieroglyphics and numbers

15.

What was the basic reason for European Exploration?

a)

the desire to get a new labor force

b)

design world maps

c)

build wealth through new trade

d)

destroy other peoples

16.

Which European powers saw the Age of Exploration as a chance to spread Christianity? (3)

a)

France

b)

England

c)

Portugal

d)

Spain

17.

What was the original reason that European countries started exploring?

a)

To find trade routes to Americas

b)

find trade routes to Greenland

c)

to find water routes to India and China

d)

to find water routes to Antarctica.

18.

Which explorer had the Americas named for him?

a)

John Cabot

b)

Amerigo Vespucci

c)

Vasco De Gama

d)

Samuel Champlain

19.

Where did Columbus land?

a)

Bahamas

b)

North America

c)

South America

d)

Asia

20.

What ways did the European explorers impact the "New World"?

a)

Colonies were developed

b)

Native American civilizations were destroyed

c)

Islam spread to the Americas

d)

Monasteries grew.

21.

What is the New World?

a)

Asia

b)

Africa

c)

Americas

d)

Europe

22.

Why did Europeans want off of the Silk Road and have a water route?

a)

Muslims controlled the land routes and made it dangerous.

b)

the Protestant Reformation demanded it.

c)

The Trans Saharan routes ended.

d)

No one wanted Asian good any longer.

23.

How did the Columbian Exchange change the modern world?

a)

language and art

b)

trade and culture

c)

roads and dams

d)

behavior and religion

24.

What was the Columbian Exchange?

a)

exchange of ideas

b)

exchange of plants, animals, and ideas between the New World and the Old World.

c)

exchange of animals for plants

d)

exchange of books and weapons.

25.

What is the Old World?

a)

Africa and India

b)

South America and North America

c)

Europe and Asia

d)

Asia and Africa

26.

Which disease killed millions of New World Native Americans?

a)

measles

b)

smallpox

c)

bubonic plague

d)

Flu

27.

What was the main European interest in Africa?

a)

to sell farm products

b)

supply slave labor to the Americas

c)

recruit Africans to fight in wars

d)

set up new colonies

28.

What were the advantages of the Columbian Exchange?

a)

new and improved diet and health

b)

employment opportunities

c)

end of violence

d)

improved medicinal techniques to end the plague.