603 Quiz 2

Question 1

What country has many remains of Aztec heritage?

Answer 1

Mexico (and find on map)

Question 2

What country is home to the Inca Empire?

Answer 2

Peru (and find on map)

Question 3

Where was the Mayan Empire?

Answer 3

Identify on map (Belize/Guatemala, etc)

Question 4

Why did the Incas use knotted memory aides?

Answer 4

they didn’t have a written language

Question 5

Pachacuti said what?

Answer 5

Viracocha was ancient, remote, supreme, and uncreated.

Question 6

How many months did the Aztec calendar have?

Answer 6

18

Question 7

How many days did the Aztec months have?

Answer 7

20

Question 8

How did the Incan relay system work?

Answer 8

1) runner memorizes message and runs to where another runner waits 2) the two runners run together, while the first tells the message to the second 3) the second runner runs on to the where the third runner waits

Question 9

Traveling through the Andes, the Incas traved by what method?

Answer 9

foot

Question 10

What did the Incas use to get up and down the steep mountain sides?

Answer 10

Steps

Question 11

How did the Incas cross gorges?

Answer 11

Swinging bridges

Question 12

Aztec foods were:

Answer 12

tomatoes, squash, chocolate, pineapple, chili peppers, and sweet potatoes

Question 13

What did the Aztecs use for food and money?

Answer 13

Cocao beans

Question 14

The Aztecs believed the world would end after a cycle of how many years?

Answer 14

52 years

Question 15

What did the Aztecs sacrifice to prevent calamity?

Answer 15

Human sacrifices

Question 16

Aztec legend tells that a priest was told to settle where?

Answer 16

Where he found an eagle perched on a cactus, eating a snake.

Question 17

According to the Maya region, those who died went where?

Answer 17

The Place of Fright

Question 18

What is a sacred Incan object?

Answer 18

huaca

Question 19

What means “ruler” or “all the people”

Answer 19

Inca

Question 20

What is the language of the Inca

Answer 20

Quechua

Question 21

What is a floating raft used for crops called?

Answer 21

Chinampa

Question 22

What is the language of the Aztecs

Answer 22

Nahuati

Question 23

What is ruled by one man or group

Answer 23

Empire

Question 24

A knotted string memory aid

Answer 24

Quipu

Question 25

Narrow, steep-sided river valley is called what?

Answer 25

Gorge

Question 26

Steals valuable artifacts

Answer 26

looter

Question 27

Land of the four quarters (name)

Answer 27

Tawantinsuyu

Question 28

Tenochtitlan was their capital city…

Answer 28

Aztecs

Question 29

Their capital city was reclaimed from a lake

Answer 29

Aztecs

Question 30

Their empire was called Tawantinsuyu

Answer 30

Incas

Question 31

Mexico City was built on the ruins of their ancient capital

Answer 31

Aztecs

Question 32

The name “Mexico” comes from a word these people used to describe themselves.

Answer 32

Aztecs

Question 33

These people believed their god, Quetzalcoatl, would come back.

Answer 33

Aztecs

Question 34

Viracocha was their “creator god”

Answer 34

Incas

Question 35

Inti was their sun god

Answer 35

Incas

Question 36

Their most important god was the “hummingbird god”

Answer 36

Aztecs

Question 37

“Haucas” ere an important part of their lives

Answer 37

Incas

Question 38

These people built massive stone buildings, but no pyramids

Answer 38

Incas