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| 249879956 | It is generally believed that human beings were living in the Americas at least how many years ago? | 15,000 years ago | 0 | |
| 249879957 | The first sign of civilization in Mesoamerica appeared at the end of the | second millennium BCE | 1 | |
| 249879958 | What was mesoamerica's first metropolis | Teotihuacan | 2 | |
| 249879959 | Where was Teotihuacan located? | the Valley of Mexico | 3 | |
| 249879960 | The decline of Mayan civilization includes what possibilities? | internal revolt, overuse of the land, constant warfare, and over population | 4 | |
| 249879961 | Mayan hieroglyphics were | ideographic and phonetic, becoming more phonetic over time | 5 | |
| 249879962 | Who were the people ruling norther Yucatan for sever centuries beginning in the 1000s C.E? | The Toltecs | 6 | |
| 249879963 | What was the capital of the Aztec empire? | Tenochtitlan | 7 | |
| 249879964 | Who was the patron god of the Aztecs and the unifying focus for the Aztec kingdom? | Huitzilopochtli | 8 | |
| 249879965 | What did the Aztecs do in order to postpone the final day of reckoning? | they practiced human sacrifice | 9 | |
| 249879966 | How many years has South America been inhabited for? | more than 12,000 years | 10 | |
| 249879967 | By 2500 BCE, where had urban settlements appeared? | in the costal regions and river valleys of Peru and Ecudor | 11 | |
| 249879968 | What civilization emerged during the first millennium CE in northern Peru? | Moche | 12 | |
| 249879969 | Moche civilization? | it was located in a very arid region, possibly the effects of El Nino led to the silting up of its agricultural lands, it had a sophisticated irrigation system, its Pyramid of the Moon covered fifteen acres | 13 | |
| 249879970 | Inka civilization arose from the areas around | Cuzco | 14 | |
| 249879971 | When was the Inka civilization established? | 1400s C.E | 15 | |
| 249879972 | Inka civilization? | it depended upon forced labor, it was highly centralized, there was a 25,000 mile road system to tie the empire together, the Inka state was built on war | 16 | |
| 249879973 | In North America, when did the change from hunter gathers to farmers occur? | the third millennium BCE | 17 | |
| 249879974 | Cahokia | The largest city in North America until Philadelphia in the early nineteenth century, and with a population of 20,000 in the 1200s | 18 | |
| 249879975 | Arawak | East of the Andes, the South American culture that emerged in modern Venezuela and made the transition to agriculture | 19 | |
| 249879976 | What was the first mesoamerica civilization? | the Olmec | 20 | |
| 249879977 | Where was the Mesoamerica's Pyramid the Sun located? | Teotihuacan | 21 | |
| 249879978 | Aztec commoners were members of large kinship groups called? | calpullis | 22 | |
| 249879979 | The Inka kept records using a system of knotted strings called | quipu | 23 | |
| 249879980 | The North American Amerindian society known as the "Ancient Ones" was the | Anasazi | 24 |
