Chapter 1
What are the two regions Mesoamerica was part of today?
a. Mexico and Northern America
b. Mexico and Central America
c. South America and North America
What is:
b. Mexico and Central America
What did the Maya have to use to figure out their observations on stars?
a. Telescopes
b. Computers
c. Satellites
d. Their own eyes
What is:
d. Their own eyes
Who told the Aztec people to look for “an Eagle with a snake in its beak perched on a cactus,” and to start building a great city?
a. God of the Sun
b. The Mayan Emperor
c. The Aztecs emperor
d. Neighboring States
What is:
a. God of the Sun
What is an alpaca?
a. the way the Inca's packed clothes
b. an animal similar to a llama
c. The Spanish word for llama
What is:
b. an animal similar to a llama
Where did the Inca’s locate in South America?
a. Modern day Peru
b. Eastern Coast
c. Kahnkeestuhdorz
d. Central America
What is:
a. Modern day Peru
What did the Mayans discover and study hundreds of years ago?
a. Mathematical ideas
b. Movements of stars
c. Made a calendar
d. All of the above
What is:
d. All of the above
How many months were the Mayans Solar Calendar?
a. 5-days
b. Eighteen months
c. 12 months
d. 6 months
What is:
b. Eighteen months
The Aztec people named their new home Tenochtitlan, which means…….?
a. The nomadics
b. The Sun God
c. The place of the serpents
d. The place of the prickly pear
What is:
d. The place of the prickly pear
On what Lake was Tenochtitlan on?
a. Lake Titicaca
b. Lake Texas
c. Lake Texcoco
d. Lake Ontario
What is:
C. Lake Texcoco
True or False: The Inca’s became larger than the Aztec Empire?
What is:
True
True or False:
Maya is the first great civilizations of the Americas that flourished between 500 and 600 CE.
What is:
False, 200 to 900 CE
Besides the Solar calendar, what did the Maya astronomers call their other calendar they used?
a. Lunar Calendar
b. Sacred Round
c. Equinoxes
d. Pop and Zip
What is:
b. Sacred Round
The Aztec were proved to be __________ warriors.
a. Nomadic
b. Fearful
c. Fearsome
d. None of the above
What is:
c. fearsome
What were the teachers who taught the boys at school?
a. Priests
b.The Military
c. Women
d. There was no school
What is:
a. Priests
What did the Inca farmers not raise?
a. Pigs
b. Guinea Pigs
c. Alpacas
d. Llamas
What is:
a. pigs
What was the mysterious writing called that the archeologists found in Maya Buildings?
a. Carved symbols
b. Morse Code
c. Hieroglyphs
d. Popol Vuh
What is:
c. Hieroglyphs
Nomadic is:
a. moving around often in search of food; not settled in one place
b. warriors who attack neighboring cities
c. The sun spirit believers
What is:
a. moving around often in search of food; not settled in one place
What is a codex?
a. a code they used like sign language
b. The Aztecs money
c. an ancient book with handwritten pages or parts
What is:
c. an ancient book with handwritten pages or parts
What did the Aztecs use as paper to keep a list of rulers, record payments, and keep track of holidays?
a. Paper
b. Rocks
c. They didn't have a way to keep track
d. Tree bark
What is:
d. Tree bark
Where is Peru located?
a. north america
b. south america
c. central america
d. central mexico
What is:
b. South America
Hieroglyphs are:
a. morse code
b. the mayans version of constellations
c. a picture or symbol representing an idea, an object, a syllable, or a sound
What is:
c. a picture or symbol representing an idea, an object, a syllable, or a sound
What is an Emperor?
a. a conquistador
b. someone who is the ruler of an empire
c. someone who is the leader of a North East Native American tribe
What is:
b. someone who is the ruler of an empire
What group did this book start with?
a. aztecs
b. Mayas
c. Incas
What is:
b. mayas
What is a conquistador?
a. a leader of the Inca's
b. the Spanish word for conqueror
c. the ruler of an empire
What is:
b. the Spanish word for conqueror
What is the Llama's cousin?
a. camel
b. alpaca
c. donkey
What is:
a. camel