Aztecs and Mayans
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| 532687724 | Why is the term Indian derived from a mistake? | Columbus thought they had reached the Indies | 0 | |
| 532687725 | What term is used to describe Central Mexico? | Mesoamerica | 1 | |
| 532687726 | What nomadic group built a large empire in central America before the Aztecs? | Toltecs | 2 | |
| 532687727 | Identify Toltec culture | a strong militaristic ethic | 3 | |
| 532687728 | Identify Topiltzin | a Toltec leader and a priest dedicated to the god Quetzalact | 4 | |
| 532687729 | identify Quetzalcoatl | feathered serpant | 5 | |
| 532687730 | What most likely caused the collapse of the Toltec Empire around 1150? | destroyed by nomadic invaders | 6 | |
| 532687731 | What group migrated to the shores of Lake Texcoco around 1325? | The Aztecs | 7 | |
| 532687732 | What city was founded about 1325? | Tenochtitlan | 8 | |
| 532687733 | What central role did the military class play? | helped stabelize Aztec empire | 9 | |
| 532687734 | What were some of the traditional deities of Mesoamerica? | rain, fire, water, corn, the sky, the sun | 10 | |
| 532687735 | What were the three major divisions of gods in Aztec religion? | Fertility and agriculture cycle, creators, warfare and sacrificew | 11 | |
| 532687736 | Identify Tlaloc | god of rain | 12 | |
| 532687737 | Identify Huitzilopochtli | Aztec tribal patron | 13 | |
| 532687738 | Identify Nezhualcoyotl | King of Texcoco | 14 | |
| 532687739 | What was there Aztecs cyclical view of history? | the world has been destroyed 4 times and will be destroyed again | 15 | |
| 532687740 | What was calpulli and what did they control? | clans that controlled their own regions | 16 | |
| 532687741 | What present-day city rose on the site of the former Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan? | Mexico City | 17 | |
| 532687742 | What were chinampas? | Beds of aquatic weeds, mud, and earth that had been placed in frames made of cane and rooted to the lake floor | 18 | |
| 532687743 | What were some examples of tribute payments? | food slaves, and sacrificial victims | 19 | |
| 532687744 | What were some important functions of the calpulli? | marriages and military achevements | 20 | |
| 532687745 | What groups controlled the military and priesthood? | nobles | 21 | |
| 532687746 | What two-types of death ensured eternal life? | flowery death or fighting till the end | 22 | |
| 532687747 | Why was Indian civilization unable to free women from the 30 to 40 hours a week that went into preparing basic food? | the needed to spend time for family to surivie | 23 | |
| 532687748 | The total Aztec population may have reached more than _____ million. | 25 | 24 | |
| 532687749 | Who ruled each of the Aztec city-states? | the great speaker Tenochtitlan | 25 | |
| 532687750 | Why was the empire never integrated? | local rulers stayed to collect tributes | 26 | |
| 532687751 | Why was the Aztec a success? | long-existing | 27 | |
| 532687752 | What contributed to the Aztec Empire's collapse? | unknown-social stress | 28 | |
| 532687753 | Where was the Inca Empire located? | Andean high lands | 29 | |
| 532687754 | What does "inca" mean? | ruler | 30 | |
| 532687755 | Identify Pachacuti | ruler of Inca empire | 31 | |
| 532687756 | Identify split inheritance | political power and titles to split to sucessors | 32 | |
| 532687757 | Identify Temple of the Sun | magnificent temple in Cuzco | 33 | |
| 532687758 | Identify huacas | holy shrines | 34 | |
| 532687759 | The Inca, considered virtually a _____, ruled the empire from Cuzco. | god | 35 | |
| 532687760 | Like the Mesoamerican peoples, the Incas made no practical use of the _____, but unlike them they had no system of _____ | land; writing | 36 | |
| 532687761 | What were some similiarities between the Incas and Aztecs? | culture based on long development of civilizations, represented the success of imperial and military organizations, based on intensive agriculture, older kinship-based institutions | 37 | |
| 532687762 | What were some differences between the Incas and the Aztecs? | trade more developed in Aztec empire, writing style, social definition of hierarchy | 38 | |
| 532687763 | Using the table on p253, what area was approximately the same population as the Americas? | Europe (except Russia) | 39 | |
| 533050779 | Agriculture was spread widely throughout the Americas by what year? | 1500 CE | 40 |
