Ch. 1-4 Unit Test Flashcards
People from ___________ and ____________ make up what archaeologist call Mesoamerica.
Mexico and Central America
The ________ were one of the first groups in Mesoamerica to develop large ceremonial complexes.
Olmec
The Moche did/did not have a comparable system of writing to the Maya.
Did not
The Olmec were ancient Americans known as
“_________________________________”
People of the Place of Rubber
Metal workers from the population center of _____ were the first to craft three-dimensional objects from metal.
Chavin
The first great population center was ______________, just outside of the present day city of Oaxaca in southern Mexico.
Monte Alban
The ___________ developed a true system of writing.
Mayans
The __________ excelled in astronomy ahead of that of Europe at the time.
Mayans
The ________ had a recurrent motif in art, a deity that archaeologists call “the Decapitator”.
Moche
The Nazca were best known for their _______.
Geoglyphs
The rulers of the Wari employed administrative tactics later used effectively by the _______.
Incas
THe highest compliment that an Aztec artist could receive was that he or she worked “like a _______”.
Toltec
The Sun was usually a ____.
Male
The Moon was usually a _______.
Female
The ________________ established a network of roads, with rest stops at strategic points along the way, to link its various provincial capitals.
Wari Empire
The ________ symbol for conquest featured a burning temple.
Aztec
The Inca had no system of pictorial writing TRUE/FALSE
True
Human sacrifice not only pleased the gods but it served the Mexicas _____________.
Political agenda
In Aztec society, the peasants and artisans made up the commoner class known as a __________.
Macehualtin
The ________ were a group of people who were called “a people short of everything” by Christopher Columbus.
Tainos
The Pueblos received their first foreign “visitors” when __________ arrived in the early 1540s.
Coronado
__________ was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula.
Hispania
The Muslims crossed the _____________________ to set up kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula.
Strait of Gibraltar
The “Catholic Kings” were ________ and __________.
Ferdinand and Isabella
In the Mexica society, the __________ were known as the “long distance merchants.”
Pochteca
King ________ created what was known as the “Triple Alliance”
Ixcoatl
In the Aztec society, a dozen or more households formed the _________.
Calpuli
The Incas ruled a kingdom called Tawantinsuyu which translates to “______________________.”
Land of the Four Quarters
_____________________________ gathered experts in navigation and geography and sponsored voyages along the coast of Africa and out into the Atlantic, these voyages would launch his nation as a world power.
Prince Henry the Navigator
_______________________ was the lead of the Spanish inquisition.
Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros
Medieval Iberia, at times, enjoyed a measure of coexistence called _____________ , among Christians, Muslims, and Jews.
Convivencia
Who were known as the “Killer of Moors”?
Santiago Matamoros and St. James
In many respects the _______ were more intrusive in the lives of their subjects than the Mexica.
Incas
The population of central Mexico grew substantially during the period of _______ supremacy.
Aztec
In Mexica society, people were not born into slavery. True/False
True
The people of the __________ and __________________ were the first to experience the European invasion.
Caribbean and Coastal Brazil
_________________________ was a Spanish explorer who was looking for a “fountain of youth” when he landed in Florida
Juan Ponce de Leon
Moctezuma was killed by ______________.
His own family
Natives were not allowed to choose which elements of Christianity they adopted and which elements of their old religions they retained. True/False
True
_______________________ is credited with the naming of “America.
Amerigo Vespucci
_______ called Mexico “New Spain”
Cortes
__________________ is credited with the founding of LIma.
Francisco Pizarro
____________ is the city known as the “City of the Kings.”
Lima, Peru
__________ was the practice of distributing Indian workers to individual Spaniards.
Encomienda
____________ were the most powerful colonial officials in the 16th century.
Viceroyalties
