WorksheetsUnit 4.2 South America & Mesoamerican Review
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
What was the most important crop in the Americas?
Rice
Beets
Beans
Corn
Where did farming begin in the Americas?
Mesoamerica
South America
Modern Day Mexico
Modern Day Puerto Rico
What did most of the Mesoamerican civilizations have in common?
Stone temples and pyramids
Large statues of Buddha
They were all located on the Yucatan peninsula
They all spoke Spanish
What is one thing that the early cultures of North America had in common? (Hohokam, Anasazi, Hopewell, and Mississippians)
They all spoke English
They were all hunter-gatherers
Their main crop was Yams
The were all located in what is now the United States
What is NOT a geographical area of the Americas?
Central America
The West Indies
The Caribbean
South America
What is the longest river in South America?
The Mississippi River
The Yellow River
The Brahmaputra River
The Amazon River
Hieroglyphics are associated with Egypt and Sumer but were used in other civilizations as well. Which of the following Mesoamerican and South American cultures did NOT develop hieroglyphic writing?
Aztec
Inca
Maya
Olmec
One thing that the Olmec and Zapotec civilizations had in common was a stable food supply. How does a stable food supply encourage the growth of a civilization?
It minimizes fighting amongst the wealthy.
It fosters trade and helps development outside of agriculture.
It forces the poor to learn to share with one another.
It allows one culture to gain dominance over others.
What kind of social structure was common to the four early river valley civilizations and also to pre Columbian Mesoamerican and South American civilizations?
anarchy
democracy
egalitarianism
hierarchy
Which characteristic is common to the way in which Sumerian, Mesoamerican, and Yellow River civilizations developed?
They were each the most developed civilization in their area when they flourished
They all used writing to spread their civilizations.
They were each conquered by a larger power which caused them to unite.
They all rejected human sacrifice.
The Olmec civilization is best known for which of the following achievements?
temples designed to withstand seasonal floods
stone sculptures, such as colossal heads
pyramids similar to those in Egypt
extensive road systems
Where did the Olmec establish their civilization?
Gulf of Mexico coast
present-day Peru
South central Mexico
Yucatan Peninsula
The Maya civilization...
came to a mysterious end
developed in South America
hit its peak about 750 BC
lasted about 1,000 years
According to some scientists, how did the ancient people cross from Asia to North America?
across a large glacier
by Viking ship
using a land bridge
using a primitive raft
The first people of the Americas were
explorers
farmers
hunter-gatherers
metalworkers
Metalworking was introduced to Mesoamerica by which group?
Olmec
Zapotec
Toltec
Aztec
The Olmec traded with inland people to obtain
animal skin for clothing
corn and beans for survival
obsidian for making knives
salt for preserving food
What religion do all the Mesoamericans have in common?
Monotheism
Polytheism
Agnostic
Atheist
The Aztec capital, ____, was built on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco.
Mexico City
Chichen Itza
Tenolitichaun
Peru
At the top of Aztec society was the __________.
head priest
commander of the army
emperor
council of nobles
Terrace farming was an important development for the Inca because __________.
invading armies could not reach these fields
they wanted to grow rice
roads connected the fields to the cities
it provided more land that could be farmed
A notable and unique achievement of the Iroquois League was ____.
creating a constitution for their government
inventing the mud-dried bricks called adobe
developing farming based on corns, beans, and squash
forming a union of Native American groups
Aztec boys were taught to be ___________ from an early age.
warriors
priests
kings
farmers
What kind of writing system do most of the Mesoamericans have that is the same as the river valley civilization of Egypt?
Cuneiform
Alphabet
Hieroglyphs
Ideographs and Pictographs
The Maya used which numeral in their number system, just like the people of the Indus valley?
Zero
Ten
Sixty
One Hundred
