History Skills
A type of history exam where you use documents to answer a question.
What is a DBQ?
The system by which the government forces its citizens to join the army to fight in a war.
What is the draft?
The part of the body that was raised up to the sky and offered to the gods during human sacrifice.
What is the heart?
The area that includes modern day Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras.
What is Mesoamerica?
This is the location of the Strait of Magellan, named such because Magellan was the first person to navigate around the southern tip of this continent.
What is South America?
It is important to do this when looking at a document to tell if it is primary or secondary and whether there is any bias present.
What is analyzing your source?
This is what happens when you take away or restrict somebody's right to vote in a democracy.
What is disenfranchised?
This group of people wrote most of the surviving primary sources about the Aztec people.
Who are the Spanish?
The Mayans had three of these which they used to keep track of rituals, eras, and seasons. They could even use them to predict eclipses.
What are calendars?
Many times when sailors were lost at sea without food, they had to resort to this practice, the eating of human flesh.
What is cannibalism?
Underlining difficult words, circling main ideas, and writing notes in the margins are all examples of this.
What is marking the text?
Citizens that live in a democracy get to do this in order to express their desires about laws or leaders.
What is vote?
A type of writing that involves picture instead of characters in the writing system.
What are hieroglyphs?
The Mayans would walk and carry goods to many other cities and villages as part of this major accomplishment?
What is a trade system?
Magellan was the first to sail around the entire Earth, this word means the same thing.
What is circumnavigate?
This writing structure is used when doing any kind of writing that is focused on proving a point or persuading a reader.
This is what happens to the Emperor of Rome when someone did not like the way that they were leading.
What is assassination?
The type of floating-island irrigation system that the Aztecs used to quadruple their yearly corn output.
What are chinampas?
Name one Mayan city.
What are Chichen Itza, Tikal, Tulum, El Mirador, etc. ?
What is Catholicism?
Name two styles of organizing your thoughts and ideas when writing them down before writing an essay.
What are an outline and a spider web organizer?
These two groups of people invaded the Roman Empire and helped to cause its collapse.
Who are the Huns and the Goths?
The Aztec empire expanded quickly over the course of about 200 years. What years were the approximate beginning and end of the Aztec empire?
What is 1300 - 1521? (Within 100 years of each)
Name the three characters that are used to represent 0,1, and 5 in the Mayan numbering system.
This location was the reason why Magellan went on his voyage in the first place. It was home to cinnamon, cloves, and other tasty plants.
What are the Spice Islands?