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A) Mexican lowlands B) Honduran coastal regions C) Guatemalan highlands D) Nicaraguan plains
A) Two B) Three C) Four D) Five
A) Three B) Two C) Four D) Five
A) 400,000 B) 90,000 C) 1,000,000 D) 800,000
A) Izabal B) Southern Petén C) Alta Verapaz D) El Quiché
A) 85,000 B) 12,000 C) 9,000 D) 3,000
A) Mayan expansion B) Ancient trade routes C) Recent migrations D) Colonial displacement
A) 49,000 B) 12,000 C) 9,000 D) 3,000
A) Sipacapa B) Quetzaltenango C) Chichicastenango D) Uspantán municipio
A) 15,000 B) 8,000 C) 3,000 D) 6,000
A) Qʼeqchiʼ B) Kʼicheʼ C) Kaqchikel D) Mam
A) 1,000,000 B) 90,000 C) 400,000 D) 800,000
A) Chilam Balam B) Popol Vuh C) Rabinal Achi D) Codex Maya
A) Chichicastenango B) Qʼumarkaj C) Quetzaltenango D) Uspantán
A) San Marcos B) Guatemala City C) Santa Cruz del Quiché D) Lake Atitlán
A) 15,000 B) 85,000 C) 90,000 D) 400,000
A) Chichicastenango and Quetzaltenango B) Aguacatán and Tectitán C) Santa Cruz and Tactic D) Cubulco and Rabinal
A) Huehuetenango B) San Marcos C) Baja Verapaz D) El Quiché
A) The Achi Maya B) Campbell C) Popol Vuh D) Ethnologue
A) Only during ceremonies B) No C) Yes D) Only in urban areas
A) 1,000,000 B) 400,000 C) 90,000 D) 800,000
A) Izabal department B) Cuchumatán mountains C) Northern shore of Lake Atitlán D) Southern Petén
A) 15,000 B) 49,000 C) 8,000 D) 90,000
A) Tectitán B) Guatemala City C) Vicinity of Lake Atitlán D) Sipacapa
A) 8,000 B) 20,000 C) 15,000 D) 6,000
A) 6,000 B) 3,000 C) 8,000 D) 15,000
A) Tectitán B) Sipacapa C) Uspantán D) Aguacatán
A) Huehuetenango B) San Marcos C) Alta Verapaz D) El Quiché
A) Ixil B) Tektitek C) Awakatek D) Mam
A) 400,000 B) 800,000 C) 70,000 D) 478,000
A) Izabal and Guatemala B) San Marcos and Huehuetenango C) El Quiché and Baja Verapaz D) Alta Verapaz and Petén
A) 20,000 B) 6,000 C) 70,000 D) 15,000
A) Uspantán B) Tectitán C) Aguacatán D) Sipacapa
A) Alta Verapaz B) Huehuetenango C) El Quiché D) San Marcos
A) 70,000 B) 85,000 C) 90,000 D) 49,000
A) Ixil Triangle B) Cuchumatán mountains C) Southern Petén D) Lake Atitlán
A) Teko B) Quiché C) Awakatek D) Kekchi
A) Over 70,000 B) Over 1,000 C) Over 20,000 D) Over 6,000
A) Tectitán B) Purulhá C) Aguacatán D) Sipacapa
A) 12,000 B) 9,000 C) 3,000 D) 1,000
A) It is declining B) It is growing C) It is becoming extinct D) It is staying the same
A) Uspantek node B) Mamean sub-branch C) Quichean–Mamean node D) Poqom-Kʼichean sub-branch
A) Rabinal B) Cubulco C) Purulhá D) Uspantán
A) Cobán B) Purulhá C) Rabinal D) San Cristóbal Verapaz
A) 8,000 B) 49,000 C) 15,000 D) 90,000
A) Several small pockets B) A single continuous territory C) Solely around Lake Atitlán D) Only in Guatemala City
A) Forty B) Twenty C) Fifty D) Thirty
A) Mixtec B) Yucatecan C) Nahuatl D) Zapotec
A) Tarascan B) Huastecan C) Otomian D) Totonacan
A) Belize B) Guatemala C) Honduras D) Mexico
A) 70%–90% B) 40%–60% C) 10%–20% D) 5%–15%
A) Some scholars B) Only Belizean researchers C) All linguists D) No scholars
A) Mamean branch B) Yucatecan branch C) Huastecan branch D) Kʼichean branch
A) Chʼol B) Chʼortiʼ C) Chontal Maya D) Chʼoltiʼ
A) Chʼortiʼ B) Chontal C) Chʼoltiʼ D) Chʼol
A) Chʼoltiʼ B) Akatek C) Chʼol D) Tojolabʼal
A) Qʼanjobʼalan languages B) Tzeltalan languages C) Huastecan languages D) Chʼolan languages
A) Modern era B) Classic-era C) Pre-classic era D) Post-classic era
A) Tzeltal B) Chʼol C) Chuj D) Tzotzil
A) 30,000 B) 100,000 C) 77,700 D) 55,000
A) Volcanic eruptions B) Genocidal policies during the Civil War C) A major earthquake D) An economic depression
A) Akatek B) Tojolabʼal C) Poptiʼ D) Chuj
A) La Trinitaria, Chiapas B) Huehuetenango C) San Miguel Acatán D) Tabasco
A) In Belize B) In eastern Chiapas C) In El Salvador D) In Tabasco
A) Texas B) California C) Ohio D) Florida
A) New York B) Chicago C) Los Angeles D) Houston
A) Spanish B) Latin C) Portuguese D) English
A) The 18th century B) The 21st century C) The 20th century D) The 19th century
A) A completely unified single language B) A shared ethnic identity as Maya C) A desire to migrate exclusively to Europe D) A new writing system based on Spanish
A) Palenque B) Mayapan C) Tikal D) Chichen Itza
A) Religious affiliation with colonial institutions B) Citizenship in a single modern nation-state C) Linguistic relationships, ethnic, or cultural traits D) Exclusively political boundaries established by Spain
A) Crops B) Language C) Currency D) Architecture
A) It is an ancient Spanish word with no indigenous roots B) It refers only to people living outside the Yucatán Peninsula C) Maya peoples do not constitute a homogeneous identity D) It is no longer used by any modern scholars
A) Five B) Twenty-one C) Ten D) Fifty
A) A classification based on writing systems B) A distinction based purely on the number of speakers C) A scientifically accurate and neutral linguistic distinction D) A spurious distinction with racialist overtones
A) 1500 B) 2025 C) 1986 D) 1996
A) United States immigration judges B) European archaeologists C) Maya organisations D) The Spanish colonial government
A) The Spanish colonization of Central America B) The 1996 peace accords C) The invention of the postclassical city of Mayapan D) The founding of the San Francisco East Bay
A) Proto-Yucatecan B) Eastern Chʼolan C) Proto-Chʼolan D) Classic Chʼoltiʼan
A) South America B) Europe C) North America D) Mesoamerica
A) Olmec B) Classic Maya C) Proto-Mayan D) Mixe-Zoque
A) The comparative method B) The structural derivation method C) The historical transcription method D) The phonetic method
A) Suffixes B) Prepositions C) Relational nouns D) Auxiliary verbs
A) Ergativity B) Nominative-accusative alignment C) Tonal inflection D) Noun incorporation
A) Clitics B) Demonstratives C) Locatives D) Positionals
A) Pre-Columbian era B) Archaic period C) Colonial era D) Post-Conquest era
A) Karl Sapper B) Terrence Kaufman C) Lyle Campbell D) John Justeson
A) Around 2200 BC B) Around 3000 BC C) Around 1000 BC D) Around 500 AD
A) Zapotec B) Aztec C) Olmec D) Toltec
A) Latin script B) Cyrillic script C) Greek script D) Maya script
A) Lyle Campbell B) Joseph Greenberg C) David Mora-Marin D) Noam Chomsky
A) The Siouan hypothesis B) The Macro-Mayan hypothesis C) The Penutian hypothesis D) The Hokan hypothesis
A) Joseph Greenberg B) An anonymous Mesoamerican scholar C) Lyle Campbell D) David Mora-Marin
A) Belize B) Guatemala C) Honduras D) Mexico
A) Itzaʼ B) Wastek C) Lakantum D) Chicomuceltec
A) Mopan B) Wastek C) Itzaʼ D) Yucatec Maya
A) Chicomuceltec B) Uspantek C) Jakaltek D) Lakantum
A) CCV B) CVC C) CVCC D) VCV
A) Across syllable boundaries B) At the beginning of words only C) At the ends of words only D) Anywhere within a syllable
A) Disyllabic B) Monosyllabic C) Trisyllabic D) Polysyllabic |