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Mesoamerica #1

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

These were used to transport drinking water into the cities. What were they called?

a)

Quipu

b)

Causeways

c)

Stone Aqueducts

d)

Macuahuitl

2.

The messengers (or runners) of the Inca empire.

a)

Hunter-gatherers

b)

Chasqui

c)

Mother Culture

d)

Calpulli

3.

A cord with smaller different colored cords knotted and used for calculating and recording records.

a)

Calpulli

b)

Quipu

c)

Slash and Burn

d)

Codex

4.

These were the first people to arrive in the Americas

a)

Maize

b)

Mother Culture

c)

Chinampa

d)

Hunter-gatherers

5.

A clan constituting the fundamental unit of Aztec society

a)

Chasqui

b)

Cacao

c)

Calpulli

d)

Codex

6.

These could be used for currency in Mesoamerica.

a)

Cacao beans

b)

Maize

c)

Chinampa

d)

Macuahuitl

7.

Used in battle.

a)

Fork

b)

chinampas

c)

macuahuitl

d)

causeways

8.

Floatings Gardens

a)

Cool Beans

b)

maizemacs

c)

chinampas

d)

codex

9.

book or pages held together used by early Mesoamerican civilizatios to record historical events

a)

glyphs

b)

calpulli

c)

pagerama

d)

codex

10.

This was a popular sport played in Mesoamerican civilizations.

a)
b)
c)
d)
11.

THe Olmec were considered this because they influenced later cultures.

a)

Hunter-gatherers

b)

mother culture

c)

pro culture

d)

maize gods

12.

Name 3 resources found in Mesoamerica.

a)

maize

b)

chocolate

c)

cocoa beans

d)

obsidian

13.

Name 3 Olmec traditions that influenced later civilizations.

a)

maize cultivating

b)

calendar

c)

chasqui

d)

Ball Game

14.

Quipu

a)
b)
c)
d)