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WorksheetsLatin America Unit Review
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 18mins
How did the Incas adapt their farming to their mountainous environment?
Circle Farming
Floating Crops
Stone Terrace Farming
They did not farm.
What three early civilizations were once located in Central/Latin America?
Spanish, Portuguese, French
Mexicans, Cubans, Costa Ricans
Mayans, Aztecs, Incas
Americans, Canadians, Europeans
Aqueducts were built by the Incan civilization in order to carry water from a distant source to their crops in the Andes Mountains. This is an example of -
movement
immigration
human environment interaction
location
What animal was an essential part of life in the Incan empire?
Horse
Camel
Llama
Buffalo
Which of the following is the best definition of hieroglyphics?
A form of writing using pictures rather than letters.
Pipes or channels designed to carry water.
Military officers who were very strict.
How goods and services were produced.
Which of the following best describes an aqueduct?
An ancient coin from the Inca people.
A duck that like to drink water.
A plantation owned by Spaniards
Pipes or channels designed to carry water was a distant source.
Which of the following statements refers to Aztec farming?
They forced conquered peoples to do the farming.
They were not very skilled farmers.
Their religion prohibited raising corn as a crop.
They grew crops on small islands that they built in the lake.
What are the three main sources of cultural groups of Latin America and the Caribbean?
Africans, Asians, Catholics
Africans, Europeans, Native Americans
Asians, Native Americans, Europeans
Native Americans, Aborigines, Europeans
I am the shortcut that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Tallahassee Canal
Gibraltar Canal
Panama Canal
Suez Canal
This ocean is located on the western side of Latin America.
Arctic
Indian
Atlantic
Pacific
Which regions make up Latin America.
Mexico, North America, Central America, Caribbean
North America, Central America, South America, Caribbean
South America, Central America, Mexico, Caribbean
South America, Mexico, South America, Caribbean
Where was the Aztec empire located?
Central Mexico
Yucatan Peninsula
Modern day California
Chile and Peru
The Incan civilization developed
along a narrow desert bordering the Pacific Ocean.
in the jungles of the Amazon rainforest.
in the Andes mountains of South America.
on islands off the coast of South America.
Who built the Panama Canal?
France
Spain
Panama
United States
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The ballgame that Mayas watched for entertainment was also
A sacred ritual
A game everyone played
a test of intellect
the way new kings were picked
The Mayan diet consisted mainly of this major crop
Potatoes
Maize
Rice
Cotton
True or False: The Maya were united under a single government ?
True
False
The Maya
had a system of writing like hieroglyphics that represented sounds and also had a system for numbers
spoke Nahuatl
spoke Quechua
built chinampas on Lake Texcoco
The Maya civilization was a group of connected city-states.
True
False
Which proves the Maya were successful mathematicians and astronomers?
They built a pyramid
They played a complicated ball game
They created a 365 day calendar
all of the above
Most Maya scribes recorded their people's history in a folded book made of tree bark called
a glyph
a book
a stelae
a codex
When the Aztec arrived in Central Mexico the area was
dominated by city-states
dominated by the Maya
Empty, ready for them to build a grand empire
a wall of skulls
What's the name of the Aztec Capital?
Texcoco
Chinapa
Templo Mayor
Tenochtitlan
Who was the most powerful person in Aztec culture?
The Emperor
The Priest
The person who made the sacrifices at the temple
The Warrior
The Aztecs
spoke Nahuatl
spoke Spanish
spoke English
spoke Quechua
