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Week 14 - Ancient Civilizations

Total questions: 33

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are some ways that we learn about the native people of the Americas?

a)

by studying ancient artifacts such as tools, weapons, artwork, and skeletons

b)

by studying areas of land such as campsites and ancient ruins

c)

by studying early accounts/written documentation left by Spanish explorers

d)

by talking to the chiefs and emperors of the time

2.

Which civilization is colored yellow?

a)

Aztec

b)

Inca

c)

Maya

d)

Mississippian

3.

Which civilization is colored red?

a)

Aztec

b)

Inca

c)

Maya

d)

Mississippian

4.

Which civilization is colored pink?

a)

Aztec

b)

Inca

c)

Maya

d)

Mississippian

5.

Which civilization is colored purple?

a)

Aztec

b)

Inca

c)

Maya

d)

Mississippian

6.

In the Mayan society, what is level 1?

a)

war captives and enslaved people

b)

farmers, merchants, and laborers

c)

ruler

d)

artists and architects

e)

governors

7.

In the Mayan society, what is level 2?

a)

war captives and enslaved people

b)

farmers, merchants, and laborers

c)

ruler

d)

artists and architects

e)

governors

8.

In the Mayan society, what is level 3?

a)

war captives and enslaved people

b)

farmers, merchants, and laborers

c)

ruler

d)

artists and architects

e)

governors

9.

In the Mayan society, what is level 4?

a)

war captives and enslaved people

b)

farmers, merchants, and laborers

c)

ruler

d)

artists and architects

e)

governors

10.

In the Mayan society, what is level 5?

a)

war captives and enslaved people

b)

farmers, merchants, and laborers

c)

ruler

d)

artists and architects

e)

governors

11.

Which civilization is this image associated with?

a)

Aztec

b)

Inca

c)

Maya

d)

Mississippian

12.

Which civilization is this image associated with?

a)

Aztec

b)

Inca

c)

Maya

d)

Mississippian

13.

Early Civilizations in the Western Hemisphere had very little technology.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

The Aztec used ____________ as their primary currency.

a)

cacao beans

b)

shell beads

c)

gold dust

d)

silver coins

15.

It takes the moon 29.53059 days for the moon to orbit the Earth. The Maya measured the moon’s orbit to 29.5308 days. What does this show?

a)

The Maya worshipped the moon.

b)

The Maya were excellent architects.

c)

The Maya had a strong legal system.

d)

The Maya had advanced mathematics.

16.

Why have archaeologists found Mississippian artifacts far away from their villages?

a)

Mississippians migrated often.

b)

Other groups conquered them.

c)

Mississippians often traded with other groups.

d)

They sent groups to settle new areas.

17.

Cause: The Inca lived in mountains with steep sides. 

Effect: _______________________

a)

They used crop rotation.

b)

They used terraced farming.

c)

They planted crops on floodplains

d)

They created chinampas for farming.

18.

Historians, scientists, and archaeologists agree about how people first came to the Americas.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

Ancient people native to Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras from 1800 B.C.E to 900 C.E.

a)

Aztec

b)

Maya

c)

Mississippian

d)

Inca

20.

Ancient people who lived in central Mexico around 1200 CE.  They had a social hierarchy of nobles, commoners, serfs, and enslaved people.

a)

Aztec

b)

Maya

c)

Mississippian

d)

Inca

21.

Ancient people of South America before the Spanish conquest (1400 C.E. - 1533 C.E.) with living descendants in the central Andes Region.

a)

Aztec

b)

Maya

c)

Mississippian

d)

Inca

22.

Ancient people who settled in places all over the eastern half of the United States from 100 to 1700 C.E.  Also known as “Mound Builders”.

a)

Aztec

b)

Maya

c)

Mississippian

d)

Inca

23.

Ruler of an ancient civilization, empire or monarch. The Aztec empire had one 

a)

emperor

b)

quipas

c)

census

d)

crops

24.

a government count of people

a)

emperor

b)

quipas

c)

census

d)

crops

25.

system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.

a)

hierarchy

b)

quipas

c)

census

d)

civilization

26.

a plant that can be grown and harvested for profit

a)

hierarchy

b)

quipas

c)

crops

d)

civilization

27.

Aztec’s capital city.  It is now known as Mexico City.

a)

Tahuantinsuyu

b)

Cahokia

c)

Mesoamerica

d)

Technochtitlan

28.

large Mississippian settlement in Illinois

a)

Tahuantinsuyu

b)

Cahokia

c)

Mesoamerica

d)

Tenochtitlan

29.

name for Incan empire which translates to “four quarters''

a)

Tahuantinsuyu

b)

Cahokia

c)

Mesoamerica

d)

Tenochtitlan

30.

the area located in central Mexico down though Central America including the countries that are now Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador

a)

Tahuantinsuyu

b)

Cahokia

c)

Mesoamerica

d)

Tenochtitlan

31.

Supreme ruler of Inca Empire

a)

Tahuantinsuyu

b)

Sapa Inca

c)

civilization

d)

quipas

32.

a form of record keeping using knotted strings tied together

a)

Tahuantinsuyu

b)

Sapa Inca

c)

civilization

d)

quipas

33.

a group of people with their own languages, government, and way of life

a)

Tahuantinsuyu

b)

hierarchy

c)

civilization

d)

quipas