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bảng tínhAztec, Maya, Inca (Americas)
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What was the capital city of the Aztecs?
Tikal
Tenochtitlán
Texcoco
Tlacopan
Tenochtitlán was located in what present day city?
Baja
Guadalajara
Cancún
Mexico City
The Aztecs built floating gardens in the city of Tenochtitlán to help grow farming within the city. What were these floating gardens called?
Chinampas
Bayou Bridges
Causeways
Canals
Who was the most important person/people in Aztec society?
Nobles
Warriors
Emperor
Priests
How many human sacrifices did the Aztecs have in a year?
1,000
10,000
20,000
50,000
______ was the leader of the Spanish Conquistadors, and held ______ captive who was the emperor of the Aztecs.
Hernan Cortes
Christopher Columbus
Montezuma
Tenochtitlán
Quetzalcoatl
What disease lead to thousands of Aztec people to loose their lives?
COVID-19
Small Pox
Chicken Pox
Influenza
Where were the Aztecs located?
Plains of Mexico
Yucatan Peninsula
Andes Mountains
Panama Canal
What type of religion did the Aztecs follow?
Monotheistic
Polytheistic
They did not have an organized religion
They believed in no god
How did the Aztecs please their many gods?
Elaborate songs
Painting their bodies
Human and animal sacrifices
Piercings on their bodies
What are tributes?
Small streams
Taxes
Farmers
Weapons
What was used to create Aztec weapons?
Gemstones
Obsidian glass
Cacao beans
Steel
Which of these could be used as tribute?
Slaves
Cacao beans
Gemstones
All of them
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
In which of the following territories was the Mayan civilization located?
Guatemala, Honduras, Yucatan Peninsula
Honduras, Panama and Guatemala
Yucatan Peninsula, Panama and Guatemala
Panama, Columbia and Yucatan Peninsula
In what part of the world was Mayan civilization located?
The Andes Mountains
The Amazon Basin
The Yucatan Peninsula
The Atacama Desert
The pictures and symbols used in Mayan writing are called
glyphs
letters
numbers
pictographs
possible warfare
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
The Maya used glyphs to
farm swamp land
fight back against the conquistadors
represent words, syllables, and sounds as part of a complex system of writing
help build up hip muscle so they would be really good at the ball game
For the Maya, what determined where they lived and how they dressed?
How close they lived to a temple
Their place in the class system
How good the harvest was
All of the above
What is a city-state?
an artificial field of mud and vegetation used to produce crops
the building where a bureaucrat works
the great pyramid that stood at the center of the city
a city with its surrounding territory that forms an independent state
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
Why use the slash-and-burn technique?
Because they were bored
it helped with human sacrafices
It helped avoid a drought
it fertilized the soil
Why is so little known about the early history of the Incas?
Aztecs took their books
There was a bad fire
They didn't have a system of writing
Their history books were hidden in Machu Picchu
What system of farming did the Inca develop in order to farm in the mountains?
Chinampas
Irrigation
Aqueducts
Terrace Farming
Their bridges built of wood, stone, and thick rope, as well as their extensive network and roads, plus their entire cities built out of stone show us that the Inca were
lazy
gifted engineers and builders
using a lot of help from the Maya
skilled readers and writers
The people of the Inca empire
all spoke ONLY 1 language
were all very similar
were diverse and spoke over 20 languages
were diverse but spoke ONLY one language
What helped rulers maintain tight control of the large empire?
the hierarchy of Inca society
Pachacuti
terraced farming
Machu Picchu
The Inca has ______ for meat and wool and for transporting goods and people across the mountains.
horses
llamas
alpaca and llamas
sheep
How did the Inca get water to their cities and farms?
aquaducts
magic
terraces
chinampas
How did the Inca make travel through the mountains more efficient?
the world's first flying carts
ancient zip lines between mountain peaks
the aliens helped them
25,000 miles of roads and suspension bridges
Which factors contributed to the weakening of the Inca Empire before the Spanish conquest?
smallpox and civil war
famine and smallpox
civil war and famine
What did Cortes want from the Aztecs? (Choose all that Apply)
Their Riches (Gold)
Their Monuments
Their Clothes
To Buy Them Shoes
How were Cortes and his men treated when they reached Tenochtitlan?
Kindly
Like Enemies
With Indifference
Who is Cortes?
What city did Cortes rename to Mexico City?
Santo Domingo
Cholula
Tenochtitlan
Hispaniola
Took advantage of the Aztec people of Mexico by allowing them to think he was the returning God, Quetzalcoatl.
Vitus Bering
Captain James Cook
Juan Cabrillo
Hernan Cortez
Who conquered the Incas?
Hernando de Soto
Francisco Pizarro
Hernan Cortez
Christopher Columbus
He conquered Peru and the Inca Empire for Spain
Hernan Cortes
Ferdinand Magellan
Ponce de Leon
Francisco Pizarro
Who were the Spanish soldiers who explored and conquered lands around the world?
Aztecs
Conquistadors
Incas
Mayans
Who did Francisco Pizarro capture and defeat in the Inca Empire?
Moctezuma II
Atahualpa
Quetzalcoatl
Charles V
Where were Christopher Columbus, Hernando Cortez, Francisco Pizarro, and Ferdinand Magellan from?
Portugal
England
Spain
France
