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Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who were the Aztecs

a)

A civilization that thrived from 1438 to 1532 on the western coast of South America, including most of modern-day Peru and parts of Columbia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.

b)

 a group of peoples who have inhabited a region that includes parts of present-day Mexico and Central America from thousands of years ago to the present.

c)

A civilization that thrived in present-day central Mexico from 1325 to 1521 CE.

d)

A group of families

2.

Who were the Inca?

a)

A civilization that thrived from 1438 to 1532 on the western coast of South America, including most of modern-day Peru and parts of Columbia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.

b)

 a group of peoples who have inhabited a region that includes parts of present-day Mexico and Central America from thousands of years ago to the present.

c)

A civilization that thrived in present-day central Mexico from 1325 to 1521 CE.

d)

A group of families

3.

What is a clan?

a)

A group of families

b)

People who move from place to place

c)

People who live far apart from each other

d)

People who live alone

4.

Who was Moctezuma II?

a)

The Sapa Inca

b)

The emperor of the Mayans

c)

The Emperor of the Aztecs

d)

The President of the United States

5.

Who was the Sapa Inca?

a)

The ruler of the Aztecs

b)

The ruler of the Inca

c)

The ruler of the Maya

d)

The President of the United States

6.

What is smallpox?

a)

The name of the Ruler of the Mayas

b)

Has a religious purpose.

c)

A group of families.

d)

A serious disease that spreads from person to person and causes fever and rash.

7.

What does sacred mean?

a)

Has a religious purpose

b)

Has a non-religious purpose

c)

Has no purpose

d)

A deadly disease

8.

Who were Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizzaro?

a)

They were explorers

b)

They were conquistadors

c)

Spanish men

d)

Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro were both explorers and conquistadors who took over the Aztecs and the Incas

9.

What is a priest?

a)

A person who has the training and authority to carry out religious ceremonies or rituals.

b)

studies of stars, planets and other features of outer space.

c)

Somebody that writes down information.

d)

  All the destandance of a common ancestor.

10.

What is astronomy?

a)

The study of the stars

b)

The study of the planets

c)

studies of stars, planets and other features of outer space.

 

 

d)

Study of outer space

11.

What is a scribe?

a)

Has a religious purpose

b)

A person whose job is copying written information

c)

Someone that moves from place to place

d)

All the descendants of a common ancestor

12.

What is a market?

a)

A regular gathering of people for the purchase and sale of food, animals, and other goods/items.

b)

All the descendants of a common ancestor

c)

The study of the stars

d)

A place to buy and sell things

13.

What is a Family?

a)

People who move from place to place

b)

People you live far away from

c)

People you live with

d)

All the descendants of a common ancestor

14.

What is Mesoamerica?

a)

 a historical region that includes what are today the central and southern parts of Mexico and the northern parts of central America.

b)

A region in North America

c)

A region in Africa

d)

A region in South America

15.

What type of calendar did the Maya create?

4 lines
16.

What is one theory as to what happened to the Maya?

4 lines
17.

What did the Aztecs do when they went to the market?

4 lines
18.

What were llamas used for in the Inca Empire?

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19.

How were priests and soldiers important to the Aztec way of life?

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20.

Who were the Maya?

a)

A civilization that thrived from 1438 to 1532 on the western coast of South America, including most of modern-day Peru and parts of Columbia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.

b)

a group of peoples who have inhabited a region that includes parts of present-day Mexico and Central America from thousands of years ago to the present.

c)

 A civilization that thrived in present-day central Mexico from 1325 to 1521 CE.

d)

A group of families.