Most scholars believe that the first Americans crossed the Bering Strait about 15,000 - 10,000 years ago.

The first crop(s) cultivated in the Americas was

Which was the first civilization to emerge in Mesoamerica?

Which of the following are characteristics of the Olmec civilization?

Which of the following was the most desired product produced by the Olmecs?

Where was the center of the Zapotec civilization?

Which of the following are common to all of the Mesoamerica civilizations

Priests were less important in the Zapotec civilization than in the other Mesoamerica cultures.

There was little or no social stratification in Mesoamerica society.

Which of the following was the first major metropolis in Mesoamerica?

All of the following would have been found in Teotihuacan except

What could you buy at a marketplace in Teotihuacan?

A chinampa is

Human sacrifice was part of the religious practice in Mesoamerica civilizations.

The Mayan civilization was composed of a patchwork of city-states

Which of the following was one of the largest city-states in the Mayan civilization?

Two important natural resources available to the Mayans were

What evidence leads us to believe that the monarchs of the Mayan city-states were very powerful?

Mayan men and women both shared responsibility for homemaking and food preparation.

The Mayan social system consisted of several classes including nobles, priests, and farmers

One similarity between the religious beliefs of the Mayans and early religious beliefs in Asia and the Mediterranean was

One similarity between Mayan deities and those of Ancient Greece and India

The Mesoamerica ball game included which of the following

The Mayan writing system is most similar to that of the

The Mayan calendar

Which class in Mayan society was responsible for compiling official records?

Which of the following demonstrate how important astronomical were to the Mayans

The Mayans were a peaceful people who rarely engaged in conflict with each other

Which urban center continued to prosper after Tikal and Palenque were abandoned to the jungles?

Which group of people took control of Chichen Itza after the decline of the Mayans?

How did the Mexica arrive in the Valley of Mexico

The Mexica are known to the modern world as the

The Aztecs formed alliances with other city-states and eventually brought the region under their dominance

The Aztec capital was at

The Aztec Empire was highly centralized

The patron god of the Aztecs was

Aztec rulers were selected from within the royal family by a small group of royal officials

Rulers of Aztec territories were required to pay tribute in the form of goods or captives

Male children in noble families had which of the following options after they received their education at temple schools

Where did most Aztec slaves work

Slavery was an inherited status in the Aztec civilization

Calpulli were

Farmland within the calpulli was held in common and could not be sold

Aztec men were trained in war and Aztec women worked in the home

Women in Aztec society enjoyed fewer rights than women in other traditional civilizations

Most Aztecs practiced polygyny

Although classes in Aztec society were rigidly stratified, commoners could sometimes move up in the army or priesthood

Aztec cosmology was based on the material and divine worlds.

This feathered serpent god had a more direct impact on the lives of people than the other Aztec gods

The Aztecs believed that the world was destined to end with the destruction of the earth and all that is within it

Why did the Aztecs perform human sacrifice?

Very little Aztec art, architecture, and sculpture had religious significance

The Aztec writing system was limited but could be used for messages and for notes

People of the Eastern Woodlands were often governed by

Cahokia was the largest city in North America until it was surpassed by Philadelphia in the early 19th century

Archeological evidence indicates that Cahokia may have traded with Mesoamerica

The Hopewell culture is marked by the construction of

The Anasazi peoples

Later, the ancient Pueblo peoples moved into

The cities along the coast of modern day Peru appeared more than one thousand years earlier than the earliest known cities in Mesoamerica

Astronomical observation was important to both the Andean and Mesoamerica people

Ancient settlements in the Supe River valley practiced agriculture and traded with

Andean farmers never developed irrigation technology

The Caral societies included

Pyramids are common to Mesoamerica and the Andean civilizations

Who was the Moche creator god?

Which of the following environmental issues impacted the Moche?

The people of the Caral civilizations exploited the ocean for fishing and trade

The Wari culture is thought to have been destroyed by unfavorable environmental conditions

The Chimor built an elaborate system of canals bringing water through hundreds of miles of hilly terrain to the fields near the coast.

The Chimor is believed to have been destroyed by earthquakes and floods.

People of the Andes engaged in seafaring trade as far north as Mexico using

The only draft animal in South America was

The Inca capital was at

The Incan government was organized in a similar way to the Aztec government

The mit'a was a system of

The Inca are famous for their

The Inca used the following for record keeping

Incan men could marry the woman of their choice

Some Inca women served in the temples

This Andean civilization was not destroyed by an environmental event