Adean
In which of the following early civilizations was large-scale irrigation not important?
- Mesopotamia
- Mesoamerica
- Egypt
- Mesoamerica
Which city was the capital of the Aztec Empire and is now buried beneath the streets of Mexico City?
- Tenochtitlán
Which of the following traits was shared by both Sumerian and Mesoamerican civilizations?
a. large-scale irrigation
b. monumental architecture
c. domestication of wheat
d. domesticated pack animals
This animal was domesticated in the New World.
- goat
- sheep
- pig
- turkey
____was greatly influenced by Marxism and saw prehistoric peoples as going through “revolutionary” transformations including the Neolithic and Urban Revolutions.
V. Goldon Childe
Lord 18-Rabbit was the ruler of which Maya city?
- Copan
What does the creation myth as presented in the Mixtec codices describe?
a. the epic of Gilgamesh
b. a covenant between people and deities
c. the dynastic history of Copán
Which of the following describe autosacrifice by Mesoamerican nobles?
- autosacrifice allowed for contact with ancestors
- it involved drawing one’s own blood
- an offering of noble blood was considered a more potent way to contact divinities than the blood of common people
- autosacrifice could involve piercing of one’s tongue
- all of the bove
The Aztec empire was defeated by a group of only 250 Spanish Conquistadors.
False
- The Aztec Empire was not defeated by just 250 Spanish conquistadors. While Hernán Cortés initially led a small group of about 250-500 Spanish soldiers when he entered the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán in 1519, the fall of the empire involved: Allied Indigenous groups, disease, advance war tech
What was the largest Early Formative period Olmec site, known for its civic-ceremonial center that included monumental platforms and colossal heads?
- San Lorenso
Imagery from more than 300 carved stone slabs set into the facades of Building L-sub at Monte Albán indicate that political authority was both____
- based on violence and gifting
Which of the following was characteristic of the histories of all of the early civilizations we looked at in class?
a. cities arose before the state
b. sedentism occurred before domestication
c. social inequality developed before cities
d. egalitarian social organization arose with the state
As societies became more complex, factors such as differential access to resources, labor specialization, and control over surplus food led to hierarchical social structures. This process often began in large villages or sedentary communities, laying the groundwork for the later development of cities and states.
Which of the following was not an Andean empire?
- Aztec
- Tiwanaku
- Inca
- Aztec
- The Aztec Empire was located in Mesoamerica (primarily in the Basin of Mexico), not in the Andean region.
The Street of the Dead was found at which site?
- Teotihuacan
The social hierarchy of which of the following Classic-Period Mesoamerican cities most closely resembles that of Harappa in the Indus Valley?
a. Cuzco
b. Teotihuacan
c. Tikal
d. Palenque
Which of the following is a mountaintop city in the southern Mexican Highlands.
- Cuzco
- Monte Albán
- Memphis
- Teotihuacan
__is a mountaintop city located in the southern Mexican Highlands, specifically in the Valley of Oaxaca. It was the political and ceremonial center of the Zapotec civilization during the Classic period of Mesoamerican history.
Machu Picchu was the capital city of the Inca Empire.
False
- Machu Picchu was not the capital city of the Inca Empire. The capital of the Inca Empire was Cuzco (also spelled Cusco), located in modern-day Peru.
Machu Picchu was a royal estate built for the Inca emperor Pachacuti in the 15th century. It is an important archaeological site, but it was never the political or administrative center of the empire.
What early Andean city and state capital on the north coast of Peru dates to 200 B.C. - A.D. 600?
- Moche
Which of the following was not an aspect of Inca state religion?
- written histories of ruling families
- Inca rulers descended from the Sun God Intí
- ancestor worship
- the Inca mummy cult
- written histories of ruling families
Which of the following is not an important part of Kent Flannery's "Seasonal Scheduling" theory of agricultural origins in Mesoamerica?
- population growth
- irrigation agriculture
- subsistence technology
- seasonal movements of hunter-gatherers
- irrigation agriculture