Africa and the Americas

Question 1

Tenochtitlan was a major city of what group?

Answer 1

Aztecs

Question 2

What describes the Mayan religion?

Answer 2

Polytheistic

Question 3

In what region was the Mayan civilization located?

Answer 3

Central American rainforest

Question 4

Be able to locate the Incan Empire on a map

Answer 4

Look at your notes

Question 5

Know what the Mayan calendar looks like

Answer 5

Look at your notes

Question 6

What does the term Pok-a-Tok refer to?

Answer 6

Ball game played by the Mayans and other

Question 7

What did the Aztecs unify - to create an empire?

Answer 7

City-States

Question 8

What explains the demise of the Aztecs?

Answer 8

Hernan Cortes took Montezuma II hostage and attacked the city

Question 9

What is important about the Incan city of Machu Picchu?

Answer 9

Built high up in the mountains

Question 10

What is the oldest established culture in present-day Mexico

Answer 10

The Olmecs

Question 11

What group of people had the temple El Castillo in the city of Chichen Itza?

Answer 11

Mayans

Question 12

At its peak what was the Mayan civilization?

Answer 12

city-States

Question 13

How did most Mayans make their living?

Answer 13

As farmers

Question 14

What were the Mayan huts made from??

Answer 14

Mud and grass

Question 15

How were the Inca people organized?

Answer 15

Clans

Question 16

What Inca creation allowed government officials to travel around the empire?

Answer 16

Roads

Question 17

What did the Inca people NOT have in their civilization?

Answer 17

a Written language

Question 18

What were the Aztec people well-known for?

Answer 18

Being Warriors

Question 19

Be able to identify the Gold-salt trade route

Answer 19

Use your notes

Question 20

What did the people of Axum use to expand sea trade?

Answer 20

Saling ships - dhows

Question 21

What did the people of Axum use to expand sea trade?

Answer 21

Sailing ships called dhows

Question 22

What Mali emperor was described as the richest man who ever lived?

Answer 22

Mansa Musa

Question 23

What is the name of an important trading city within Mali was forbidden to foreigners?

Answer 23

Timbuktu

Question 24

What were the people of West Africa able to develop?

Answer 24

Their own gold mining techniques

Question 25

Describe the civilization of songhai

Answer 25

* conquered by an invading Moraccan army * Had slaves, gold and salt * Reached its height from 1450 - 1600 * Economy built on trade across Africa * Powerful leaders led a large and powerful army (Sonni Ali and Askia Muhammad

Question 26

Be able to describe the ruins of the Great Zimbabwe

Answer 26

Use your notes

Question 27

What observations was the Mayan calendar based on?

Answer 27

the planets, sun and moon

Question 28

Describe the Toltecs

Answer 28

* a Mesoamerican culture * builders of pyramids and temples * warlike people who built an empire through conquest

Question 29

Why did conquered provinces resent the Aztec rule?

Answer 29

The Aztecs used the conquered people for human sacrifice

Question 30

Under what Inca leader did their empire expand quickly?

Answer 30

Pachacuti

Question 31

What were the Mayans able to do using glyphs?

Answer 31

* record historic events * make calendars * pass on stories from generation to generation

Question 32

What is the location of Machu Picchu?

Answer 32

about 250 mile northwest of Lake Titicaca

Question 33

Be able to determine which place is the southern most place on a map

Answer 33

Use your notes

Question 34

What land form funs down the middle of the Incan Empire?

Answer 34

Andes Mountains

Question 35

What group of people's territory included lake Titicaca

Answer 35

Inca

Question 36

What group of people developed math and astronomy to support their religious beliefs?

Answer 36

Mayans

Question 37

How were the Mayans and Aztecs similar?

Answer 37

Used written language

Question 38

What society had both a variety of small tribes and larger complex societies?

Answer 38

early North American peoples

Question 39

What society began to decline before the Europeans arrived in the Americas?

Answer 39

Mayan

Question 40

What group had a social welfare state that cared for all their people?

Answer 40

Incas

Question 41

What group of people practiced human sacrifice for religious offerings, had trade links with other Mesoamerican groups and religion played and important role in their society and rule?

Answer 41

Aztecs