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WorksheetsUnit 3 Lesson 1-3: Middle America
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 19mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The shift of living in settled villages and growing plants for food is known as the what?
a)
Technologic Revolution
b)
Agricultural Revolution
c)
American Revolution
d)
Industrial Revolution
2.
The Olmec and Zapotec were peoples that lived where in ancient times?
a)
Mesoamerica
b)
South America
c)
North America
d)
Africa
3.
The Olmec people lived in the what?
a)
antarctica
b)
desert
c)
rain forest
d)
South Pacific
4.
The Zapotec developed what may have been the first system of what around 600 BCE?
a)
reading
b)
talking
c)
writing
d)
music
5.
Most Mayan people did not live in cities, they lived in what?
a)
towns
b)
camps
c)
cities
d)
villages
6.
The three main groups of Mayan society were what?
a)
Nobles, middle class, and commoners
b)
Wealthy, rich, and poor
c)
Powerful, strong, and weak
d)
Obsidian, jade, and feathers
7.
The center of the Mayan economy was the production of what?
a)
furs
b)
food
c)
obsidian
d)
trees
8.
Each Mayan city-state had its own what?
a)
key
b)
oligarchy
c)
sacrifice
d)
king
9.
Mayan kings increased their power by doing what?
a)
taking control of land
b)
taking control of trade routes
c)
going to war
d)
all of the aboive
10.
Most of the Mayan gods represented what?
a)
former kings
b)
the stars in the sky
c)
the four seasons
d)
forces of nature
11.
The Maya believed that their priests and kings could communicate with the gods through what?
a)
farming crops
b)
war dances
c)
religious rituals
d)
creating pottery
12.
Two reasons for the downfall of the Maya were what?
a)
priests and kings
b)
slash and burn agriculture
c)
volcanoes and hurricanes
d)
warfare and drought
13.
The Maya developed an advanced writing system using what?
a)
Pyrotechnics
b)
Erasable ink
c)
Hieroglyphics
d)
Phonics
14.
The Maya calculated the movements of the sun, moon, and planets to develop a complex system of what?
a)
Fighting
b)
Farming
c)
Calendars
d)
Writing
15.
The Maya observed the sun, moon, and other objects in the sky from what?
a)
Observatories
b)
Foxholes
c)
Treetops
d)
Canoes
16.
The center of the Aztec empire was a large lake called what?
a)
Lake Titicaca
b)
Lake Texcoco
c)
Lake Minatare
d)
Lake of the Ozarks
17.
The Aztec built the city-state of _________________ on a small island in Lake Texcoco.
a)
Palenque
b)
Copan
c)
Tikal
d)
Tenochtitlan
18.
The Aztec linked the island city to the shore by building what rising from the lake?
a)
boat docks
b)
bridges
c)
causeways
d)
railroads
19.
The Aztec believed that the god Huitzilopochtli brought success in battle and made the what rise?
a)
tide
b)
moon
c)
sun
d)
mountains
20.
What two classes made up the Aztec society?
a)
Nobles and commoners
b)
Kings and queens
c)
Peninsulares and mestizos
d)
Commoners and slaves
21.
The wealthiest Aztec commoners traveled the empire as what?
a)
Hunters
b)
Artists
c)
Warriors
d)
Traders
22.
In addition to canals and causeways, the Aztec built what?
a)
Schools
b)
Aqueducts
c)
Treehouses
d)
Hospitals
23.
The Aztec did not have a well developed _____________ system.
a)
writing
b)
farming
c)
hunting
d)
school
24.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa became the first European to see what ocean?
a)
Atlantic
b)
Arctic
c)
Pacific
d)
Indian
25.
Hernan Cortes and thousands of native warriors were welcomed to Tenochtitlan by the Aztec leader _______________.
a)
Columbus
b)
Balboa
c)
Huitzilopochtli
d)
Moctezuma
26.
Most of Middle America became the territory of ____________________.
a)
New Orleans
b)
New Mexico
c)
New York
d)
New Spain
27.
The Spanish empire brought what to Middle America because they brought diseases from Europe?
a)
Vaccines and needles
b)
Remedies and nurses
c)
Suffering and death
d)
Pain and suffering
28.
To govern New Spain, the king appointed ______________ to govern in his name.
a)
doctors
b)
viceroys
c)
teachers
d)
conquistadors
29.
The major cities of the Maya included Tikal, Palenque, and Copan.
a)
True
b)
False
30.
The Maya had simple societies.
a)
True
b)
False
31.
The Maya believed that their animals could communicate with the gods through religious rituals.
a)
True
b)
False
32.
Lake Texcoco had no outlet that drained it.
a)
True
b)
False
33.
The Aztec King was part of a double alliance.
a)
True
b)
False
34.
The Aztecs pioneered new writing techniques.
a)
True
b)
False
35.
Spanish explorers known as Conquistadors were in search of Exotic Feathers and Fine Chocolates.
a)
True
b)
False
36.
The Spanish brought their language, laws, and religion to their new empire.
a)
True
b)
False
37.
The exchange of people, plants, animals, diseases, and ideas between the hemispheres was called the Cortesian Exchange.
a)
True
b)
False
38.
The exchange changed the lives of people in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres forever.
a)
True
b)
False
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