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WorksheetsArt of the Americas
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What do we call the art or period during pre-Columbian times, wherein the Olmec, Mayan, and Aztec cultures flourished?
Mesopotamian
Mesoamerican
Mesozoan
Mesozoic
Which of these objects belong to, or are identified with Native Americans (North America)?
Which of these objects below belong to, or are identified with Mesoamerican art?
What is this called among Native Americans?
Totem pole
Obelisk
Monolith
Pyramid
Which of these art involves weaving? Check 3 possible answers.
Which people group was found to be producing jade masks in Mesoamerica? Clue: They are considered the mother culture.
Aztecs
Cherokee
Apache
Olmec
The art or practice of designing and constructing buildings
architecture
sculpture
pottery
weaving
Forming cloth by interlacing strands of fiber
architecture
sculpture
pottery
weaving
Almost all Aztec art used what kind of subjects and themes?
plants
religious
ordinary people
the stars
Where did the Mayans live?
Desert of South America
Arctic Circle
Southern Mexico and Central America
Woodlands of North America
Giant stone heads belong to which civilization?
Olmec
Maya
______ are written signs that represent concepts and objects.
slash-and-burn
glyphs
elite
surplus
Which Mesoamerican civilization came first?
Inca
Olmec
Aztec
Maya
What place did textiles hold in Incan culture?
They were limited to the lower classes.
They were considered the highest form of art.
Where did the Inca live?
Yucatan Peninsula
South America, specifically mostly modern Peru
Central Mexico
Totem poles were a beautiful art form, but what important purpose did they have in the tribes?
to tell a clan's history
to tell a clan what to do
to tell if they were going to war or not
Who has been carving totem poles for hundreds of years?
native people who live on many South Pacific islands
hunters who trap beaver and fox in the mountains
people who live along the Pacific coast of Alaska and Canada
people from China who moved to California and Mexico
