603 Q1

Question 1

Who built a large network of roads?

Answer 1

Maya and Olmecs both

Question 2

The Mayan number system used a place value system, used bars and dots, and

Answer 2

Used a symbol for zero

Question 3

The on grain crop of the Maya was what

Answer 3

Maize

Question 4

Who sacrificed ball-game losers to the gods?

Answer 4

Maya

Question 5

Who used a kind of picture writing?

Answer 5

Maya and Olmecs both

Question 6

The First Americans likely came from where?

Answer 6

Asia

Question 7

What Mayan practice did not seem to be related to their religion?

Answer 7

Their clearing of fields for crops

Question 8

Many Native Americans died from what disease, after the Europeans came?

Answer 8

Smallpox

Question 9

scientists who explore the ruins of ancient cities to study people are called?

Answer 9

Archaeologists

Question 10

Order the events in the Mayan and Olmec Civilization

Answer 10

1. The Olmec Civilization began 2. The Mayan civilization began 3. The Mayan cities died out 4. Columbus arrived in America.

Question 11

Mayan languages today are written using what?

Answer 11

an alphabet, not pictures

Question 12

Some people in Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico still speak what?

Answer 12

Mayan languages

Question 13

Mayans believed that they needed to do what to please their Gods?

Answer 13

offer human blood

Question 14

Man-made objects that help show how the people lived and are often discovered when old ruins are explored.

Answer 14

Milpa

Question 15

The Mayans believed that when they died they would go where?

Answer 15

Descend to a dark, damp region

Question 16

Who used a calendar and a counting system?

Answer 16

Maya and Olmecs both

Question 17

Study the languages of the Olmecs and the Maya

Answer 17

Linguists

Question 18

A group of people that has highly developed knowledge and skills is a what?

Answer 18

civilization

Question 19

Who used slash-and-burn farming?

Answer 19

Maya

Question 20

The Mayan’s religious beliefs made them what?

Answer 20

Fearful and hopeless

Question 21

Many Indians died because of what?

Answer 21

The Europeans

Question 22

Because Olmecs lived in hot, humid climate, they could raise what crops?

Answer 22

Corn, squash, beans

Question 23

The Olmecs developed a way of recording what?

Answer 23

Important events

Question 24

Who lived in the Yucatan region and in what is Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and Nicaragua?

Answer 24

Maya

Question 25

Because Olmecs lived in hot humid climate, they could live in what kind of houses?

Answer 25

pole houses with woven walls

Question 26

Who settled along the Gulf of Mexico coast west of the Yucatán Peninsula.

Answer 26

Olmecs

Question 27

What were the steps of cut-and-burn farming?

Answer 27

cutting down trees, burning dead trees, moving to another area when soil slowed production.

Question 28

Who build pyramids

Answer 28

Maya and Olmecs both

Question 29

Like the ancient Egyptians, the Mayans used picture writing called

Answer 29

Obsidian - to razor edge

Question 30

The Mayan calendar had months of how many days?

Answer 30

20

Question 31

Who was considered the “Mother Civilization” of Middle America?

Answer 31

Olmecs