Chapter 16

Question 1

moved constantly in search of food

Answer 1

hunter-gatherers

Question 2

a rope with knotted cords that served as a calculator

Answer 2

quipu

Question 3

farming culture that thrived from about A.D. 300 to 1300

Answer 3

Hohokam

Question 4

landed on island of Hispaniola in 1492

Answer 4

Christopher Columbus

Question 5

a Spanish soldier who defeated the Aztec

Answer 5

Hernan Cortes

Question 6

a Spanish soldier who defeated the Inca

Answer 6

Francisco Pizarro

Question 7

developed a trading empire that flourished between 1200 and 300 B.C.

Answer 7

Olmec

Question 8

a land bridge connecting Asia & Alaska during the Ice Age

Answer 8

Beringia

Question 9

sun-dried mud bricks used to build homes in the desert Southwest

Answer 9

adobe

Question 10

located in the dense forests of Peten

Answer 10

Mayan city-states

Question 11

why the Moche people prospered

Answer 11

irrigation for crops

Question 12

how the Mayan civilization ended

Answer 12

mysteriously

Question 13

what the Incan leader Pachacuti was able to do

Answer 13

build a huge empire

Question 14

what allowed early peoples in North America to build complex cultures

Answer 14

learned farming

Question 15

Anasazi homes

Answer 15

apartments in cliffs

Question 16

where Inuit lived

Answer 16

present-day Alaska & Canada

Question 17

why Montezuma didn’t attack invading Spaniards right away

Answer 17

thought Cortes might be a god

Question 18

who were the Mound Builders

Answer 18

hunter-gatherers who built mounds

Question 19

what allowed Spaniards to defeat the Aztec

Answer 19

guns, horses, epidemic (disease)

Question 20

why Iroquois League was formed

Answer 20

to end fighting among the groups