Ch. 1-4 Unit Test

Question 1

People from ___________ and ____________ make up what archaeologist call Mesoamerica.

Answer 1

Mexico and Central America

Question 2

The ________ were one of the first groups in Mesoamerica to develop large ceremonial complexes.

Answer 2

Olmec

Question 3

The Moche did/did not have a comparable system of writing to the Maya.

Answer 3

Did not

Question 4

The Olmec were ancient Americans known as

“_________________________________”

Answer 4

People of the Place of Rubber

Question 5

Metal workers from the population center of _____ were the first to craft three-dimensional objects from metal.

Answer 5

Chavin

Question 6

The first great population center was ______________, just outside of the present day city of Oaxaca in southern Mexico.

Answer 6

Monte Alban

Question 7

The ___________ developed a true system of writing.

Answer 7

Mayans

Question 8

The __________ excelled in astronomy ahead of that of Europe at the time.

Answer 8

Mayans

Question 9

The ________ had a recurrent motif in art, a deity that archaeologists call “the Decapitator”.

Answer 9

Moche

Question 10

The Nazca were best known for their _______.

Answer 10

Geoglyphs

Question 11

The rulers of the Wari employed administrative tactics later used effectively by the _______.

Answer 11

Incas

Question 12

THe highest compliment that an Aztec artist could receive was that he or she worked “like a _______”.

Answer 12

Toltec

Question 13

The Sun was usually a ____.

Answer 13

Male

Question 14

The Moon was usually a _______.

Answer 14

Female

Question 15

The ________________ established a network of roads, with rest stops at strategic points along the way, to link its various provincial capitals.

Answer 15

Wari Empire

Question 16

The ________ symbol for conquest featured a burning temple.

Answer 16

Aztec

Question 17

The Inca had no system of pictorial writing TRUE/FALSE

Answer 17

True

Question 18

Human sacrifice not only pleased the gods but it served the Mexicas _____________.

Answer 18

Political agenda

Question 19

In Aztec society, the peasants and artisans made up the commoner class known as a __________.

Answer 19

Macehualtin

Question 20

The ________ were a group of people who were called “a people short of everything” by Christopher Columbus.

Answer 20

Tainos

Question 21

The Pueblos received their first foreign “visitors” when __________ arrived in the early 1540s.

Answer 21

Coronado

Question 22

__________ was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula.

Answer 22

Hispania

Question 23

The Muslims crossed the _____________________ to set up kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula.

Answer 23

Strait of Gibraltar

Question 24

The “Catholic Kings” were ________ and __________.

Answer 24

Ferdinand and Isabella

Question 25

In the Mexica society, the __________ were known as the “long distance merchants.”

Answer 25

Pochteca

Question 26

King ________ created what was known as the “Triple Alliance”

Answer 26

Ixcoatl

Question 27

In the Aztec society, a dozen or more households formed the _________.

Answer 27

Calpuli

Question 28

The Incas ruled a kingdom called Tawantinsuyu which translates to “______________________.”

Answer 28

Land of the Four Quarters

Question 29

_____________________________ 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.

Answer 29

Prince Henry the Navigator

Question 30

_______________________ was the lead of the Spanish inquisition.

Answer 30

Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros

Question 31

Medieval Iberia, at times, enjoyed a measure of coexistence called _____________ , among Christians, Muslims, and Jews.

Answer 31

Convivencia

Question 32

Who were known as the “Killer of Moors”?

Answer 32

Santiago Matamoros and St. James

Question 33

In many respects the _______ were more intrusive in the lives of their subjects than the Mexica.

Answer 33

Incas

Question 34

The population of central Mexico grew substantially during the period of _______ supremacy.

Answer 34

Aztec

Question 35

In Mexica society, people were not born into slavery. True/False

Answer 35

True

Question 36

The people of the __________ and __________________ were the first to experience the European invasion.

Answer 36

Caribbean and Coastal Brazil

Question 37

_________________________ was a Spanish explorer who was looking for a “fountain of youth” when he landed in Florida

Answer 37

Juan Ponce de Leon

Question 38

Moctezuma was killed by ______________.

Answer 38

His own family

Question 39

Natives were not allowed to choose which elements of Christianity they adopted and which elements of their old religions they retained. True/False

Answer 39

True

Question 40

_______________________ is credited with the naming of “America.

Answer 40

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 41

_______ called Mexico “New Spain”

Answer 41

Cortes

Question 42

__________________ is credited with the founding of LIma.

Answer 42

Francisco Pizarro

Question 43

____________ is the city known as the “City of the Kings.”

Answer 43

Lima, Peru

Question 44

__________ was the practice of distributing Indian workers to individual Spaniards.

Answer 44

Encomienda

Question 45

____________ were the most powerful colonial officials in the 16th century.

Answer 45

Viceroyalties