Module 18 Test Review

Geography and Early Cultures

100

This was the lifestyle of the first people in the Americas.

Hunter-Gatherer (Nomadic)

200

This is the name for parts of southern Mexico and the countries that border South America.

Mesoamerica

300

This groups towns were religious and government centers.

Olmec

400

This new innovation enabled groups to grow their own food rather than hunting and gathering.

Farming crops

500

These three mountain ranges are found on the American continents.

Andes, Appalachians, Rockys

Mayas

100

Scholars, governors, and military commanders were roles that were a part of this group in Maya society.

Upper class

200

Maya found out this by studying astronomy. (Hint: 365)

Length of a year

300

Destructive, lots of prisoners, and between cities are used to describe this.

Maya warfare

400

Blood and human sacrifices were done to prevent what things?

Disasters or the End of the World

500

This was the reason for the rebellion and mass emigration from the Maya civilization.

Kings forced people to work.

Aztecs

100

War, trade, and what else were ways the Aztecs became rich and powerful?

Tribute

200

These buildings were all over the city of Tenochtitlan.

Temples

300

Tenochtitlan was in the middle of this lake in Mexico.

Texcoco

400

The reason the Aztecs gave many gifts to the Spanish when they heard of their arrival.

They thought Cortes was a god.

500

These four factors played a key role in the Aztec defeat by the Spaniards.

Alliances, Weapons, Geography, Disease

Incas

100

This place is said to be the beginning place of the Incas.

the Andes Mountains

200

A series of knots and colors used to keep records.

Quipus

300

People pay with physical labor in this system of taxes.

Mita

400

This was the reason for the Spanish attack on the Inca.

Their leader refused to become a Christian.

500

Inca roads were only open to people of these occupations.

Military and Government

North American Cultures

100

Anasazi were located in this region of North America.

Southwest

200

The clan was the family foundation for native tribes from this region of North America.

Northeastern (Eastern Woodlands)

300

Great Plains tribes differed from other tribes in North America because they lived this kind of life.

Nomadic

400

There were five different regions in North America. List 2 of them.

Any combination of: Far North, Far West, Great Plains, Eastern Woodlands, or Desert West

500

The Hopi and Pueblo are descendants from this group.

Anasazi