Chapter 16

Question 0

What is the land bridge that spans from Asia to Alaska called

Answer 0

Beringia

Question 1

What is a quipu

Answer 1

A system of counting with rope knots

Question 2

What is made up of five Native American groups

Answer 2

The confederation called the Iroquois

Question 3

What group lived in the forest of Patun

Answer 3

The Maya

Question 4

Where is Mesoamerica

Answer 4

South of Mexico above South America

Question 5

Who defeated the Inca

Answer 5

Francisco Pizarro

Question 6

Who defeated the Aztecs

Answer 6

Hernando Cortes

Question 7

Where did the Inuit live

Answer 7

Up north. Canada

Question 8

What did emperor Pachacuti accomplish

Answer 8

Creating an empire

Question 9

Why did the Maya want captives from war

Answer 9

For human sacrifice

Question 10

Why did the Iroquios form

Answer 10

To stop fighting among groups

Question 11

Who was the woman you help Cortes defeat the Aztec

Answer 11

Malintzin

Question 12

How did woman and men’s lives differ in Aztec society

Answer 12

Woman we’re praised for childbirths and helped out at the home. Men were soldiers, fighting wars, and did other warlike things

Question 13

How did the Spanish conquered the Aztecs

Answer 13

The Aztecs were weakened by disease, the Spanish had more superior weapons than the Aztecs, and that Aztecs had a lack of action at the right time

Question 14

What effects came after the end of the ice age

Answer 14

Animals became extinct, new opportunities, land bridge disappeared

Question 15

What is a glacier

Answer 15

A huge sheet of ice

Question 16

To expose is to

Answer 16

To reveal or to make visible

Question 17

To estimate is to

Answer 17

To calculate approximately

Question 18

Why is there no longer a land bridge between Asia and America

Answer 18

Ice melted and the water covered it

Question 19

What are the Olmecs accomplishments

Answer 19

Built a trade empire, made knives and jewelry, also made giant heads

Question 20

What are the Maya’s accomplishments

Answer 20

Canoe travel, and traded

Question 21

What are the Toltecs accomplishments

Answer 21

Built Tula, conquered lands, and trade

Question 22

What are the Moche’s accomplishments

Answer 22

Irritated, built pyramids, traded

Question 23

What are the Incas accomplishments

Answer 23

Built the largest empire

Question 24

A monopoly is

Answer 24

Sole right

Question 25

Complex means

Answer 25

Intricated or involved

Question 26

Resource is

Answer 26

An available supply

Question 27

How did the Toltec keep other people from challenging them

Answer 27

They had a monopoly on obsidian

Question 28

Number the following: Hopewell, Edina,hohokam, Mississippians Anasazi

Answer 28

Hohokam, Anasazi, the Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippians

Question 29

A channel is to

Answer 29

Direct it to a specific course

Question 30

To abandon is to

Answer 30

To Leave

Question 31

How was turquoise used by the Anasazi of Chaco Canyon

Answer 31

It was used as money

Question 32

Who were the first people in the Americas and how did they get there

Answer 32

Asians who followed animals across the land bridge

Question 33

What was life like for people in the first American civilizations

Answer 33

Hunters, traders, farmers, gathers, craftsman, built pyramids and mounds, created empires, and all knew about irrigation

Question 34

What was Mayan government like

Answer 34

They had city states, rulers with leadership, and it was organized

Question 35

What was mayan religion like

Answer 35

Human sacrifices to please the gods, gods controlled of everything, priests who ruled the class system, Pyramids and temples, and it was the core of mayan life

Question 36

That was Mayan discoveries like

Answer 36

They made a 365 day calendar, number system based on 20, astronomers, and a written language

Question 37

To require is to

Answer 37

To need or demand

Question 38

To predict is to

Answer 38

Knowing or guessing the future

Question 39

What was the main advantage of living in a tropical rain forest

Answer 39

They had a lot of water

Question 40

What did the Aztec expect of their kings

Answer 40

To be a great warrior

Question 41

Who is worthy of an afterlife and why

Answer 41

Soldiers who died in battle, Those who died in sacrifice, and woman who died in childbirth. They saw death honorable

Question 42

What were boys taught

Answer 42

They were taught to be warriors

Question 43

How could commoners moving to noble classes

Answer 43

Being brave

Question 44

What did Pachacuti create

Answer 44

System of roads, encourage loyalty, common language

Question 45

Is a quipu

Answer 45

A rope with knotted cords of different lengths and colors used for keeping records and doing mathematical calculations

Question 46

To create is to

Answer 46

Make

Question 47

To ensure is to

Answer 47

Guarantee or make certain of

Question 48

How did Pachacuti make sure local leaders would be loyal to him

Answer 48

He took their sons to Cuzco for training

Question 49

What is the climate,food sources, and homes in the far north

Answer 49

Cold, seals ,walrus, and land animals and igloos

Question 50

What is the climate, food sources, homes of the West Coast

Answer 50

Mild, fish,otters, gathered,seals,whales,big wooden houses

Question 51

What is the climate, food sources, homes of the Southwest

Answer 51

Hot and dry, hunted or farmed, apartment like houses made of Adobe

Question 52

An igloo is

Answer 52

Dome shaped home made from blocks of ice and snow

Question 53

What is adobe

Answer 53

Sun-dried mudbrick

Question 54

A confederation is

Answer 54

Governments that link several groups

Question 55

To Adjust is to

Answer 55

To adapt

Question 56

Widespread means

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Scattered over a large area

Question 57

How did geography shape the lives of the people north of present-day Mexico

Answer 57

It affected food choices, homes, and everyday life

Question 58

What was life like in the Mayan, Incan, and Aztec cultures

Answer 58

Human sacrifices, war like people, science and math developments, organized governments, all built large structures

Question 59

What is a conquistador

Answer 59

A soldier explorer

Question 60

Why were the inca so easily defeated by Pizarro

Answer 60

They didn't have weapons, trusted the Spanish, and smallpox

Question 61

What does treason mean

Answer 61

Betraying what you are loyal to

Question 62

How did Pizarro failed to keep his promise to Atahualpa

Answer 62

He had to give him gold and then had him accused for crimes

Question 63

How did Spain conquer Mexico

Answer 63

Cortes conquered the Aztecs

Question 64

What brought an end to the inca empire

Answer 64

Pizarro killed the incans