Ancient Americas Vocabulary Quiz
- 1. Payment or sacrifice made in return for protection
A) tax
B) tribute
C) coin
D) burden
- 2. Ancient carved stone markers that call attention to important dates or events, used by the Mayas
A) pok a tok
B) stelaes
C) civil war
D) quipu
- 3. Type of agriculture in which land is prepared for planting by cutting down and burning natural vegetation
A) slash and burn agriculture
B) causeways
C) fertile
D) crop rotation
- 4. Secret messages carried in the form of knots and colored string by the Incas
A) isthmus
B) tribute
C) quipu
D) codex
- 5. A Mayan game that was a mix of soccer, basketball, and kickball where the use of hands was not allowed
A) cricket
B) pok a tok
C) rugby
D) quipu
- 6. Earliest Mesoamerican culture, flourished from 1200-1400 BC
A) Inca
B) Maya
C) Olmec
D) Aztecs
- 7. A culture that shapes and influences the customs and ideas of later cultures
A) fallow
B) mother culture
C) cultural diffusion
D) stelaes
- 8. Last Aztec emperor who ruled from 1502-1520 AD and was overthrown by the Spanish conquistadors
A) Panchacuti
B) Huitzilopochtil
C) Ahuitzohl
D) Montezuma
- 9. Region that includes the central and southern parts of Mexico and much of Central America
A) Southeastern Americas
B) Mesoamerica
C) Latin America
D) Isthmus
- 10. Mesoamerican civilization of the Yucatan peninsula that reached its height between 250-900 AD
A) Olmec
B) Inca
C) Aztec
D) Maya
- 11. A narrow strip of land that connects two larger masses
A) chinampas
B) strait
C) peninsula
D) Isthmus
- 12. An empire of South American Indian people living in the Andes, in modern day Peru, before the Spanish conquest
A) Olmec
B) Aztec
C) Maya
D) Inca
- 13. Narrow strips of land about 300 feet long and 25 feet wide used to grow crops, they were almost completely surrounded by water
A) codex
B) isthmus
C) chasquis
D) chinampas
- 14. Native Americans who ruled Mexico and are before the Spaniards conquered the region, built an empire around Tenochtitlan
A) Maya
B) Olmec
C) Inca
D) Aztecs
- 15. a conqueror, especially Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th Century
A) conquistadors
B) quipu
C) stelaes
D) chinampas
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