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Lesson #1 Unit 2 Review

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does BCE mean on a timeline?

a)

Bacon Eggs and Cheese

b)

Before Columbus Came

c)

Before Common Error

d)

Before Common Era

2.

What does CE mean on a timeline?

a)

Civil Rights and Equality

b)

Common Era

c)

Common and Erykah Badu

d)

Civil Equality

3.

Which civilization is not a topic we are studying for Unit 2?

a)

Olmec

b)

Maya

c)

Inca

d)

Aztec

4.

What is the purpose of a timeline?

a)

To describe what happens every day in our lives.

b)

To show when the most important explorers were born.

c)

To record periods of history from beginning to end.

d)

To show use picture of civilizations.

5.

What key components did we study from the early civilizations?

a)

Food

Animals

Caves

b)

Space

Solar System

Planetarium

c)

Rocks

Mountains

Volcanoes

d)

Religion

Art and Architecture

Government

6.

What is domesticate?

a)

To hunt wild animals for survival

b)

To save animals from harm

c)

To train animals to live around humans

d)

To sell animals to make a profit

7.

The civilizations that developed long before Columbus's first voyage to the Americas are called?

a)

Pre-Columbian

b)

Post-Columbian

c)

During-Columbian

8.

People learned to irrigate fields.

What does "irrigate" mean?

a)

To cut the grass

b)

To plant

c)

To water

d)

To dig

9.

Mesoamerica has very diverse landscapes, including dry coastal deserts and wet inland rainforests.

What does "diverse" mean?

a)

has many types of animals

b)

made up of different types of land

c)

has many types of food

d)

has many types of bugs

10.

The Inca civilization began in...

a)

Egypt

b)

China

c)

India

d)

Peru

11.

What do archeoligists study?

a)

The daily weather forecast

b)

The remains of past civilizations.

c)

The planets of our solar system

d)

The government that people were ruled under

12.

How do archaeologists study past civilizations?

a)

mowing

planting

watering

b)

traveling

riding buses

flying on airplanes

riding trains

c)

excavating

taking photographs

finding artifacts

using textiles & sieves

d)

fishing

hunting

living in the wild

13.

Which location was home to many Maya?

a)

Yucatan

b)

Belize

c)

Nicaragua

d)

Costa Rica

14.

Why did the Spanish explorers Cortes and Pizarro go on conquests in the Americas?

a)

To share their art and become famous

b)

To get more people to join the conquest

c)

To find all the gold and diamonds to become the richest men in the world

d)

They wanted to establish colonies for the Spanish King.

15.

Who did Cortes and Pizarro conquer?

a)

Pizarro conquered the Maya, and Cortes Conquered the Inca.

b)

Cortés conquered the Aztec, and Pizarro conquered the Inca.

c)

Cortés conquered Maya and Pizarro conquered Aztec

d)

Aztec conquered Pizarro and Inca conquered Cortes