Chapter 7 VTP

Question 1

Aztec

Answer 1

Early settlers in the valley of Mexico. They were farmers.

Became a great empire in the 1400s

Question 2

Alloy

Answer 2

Mix or blend one metal with another

Question 3

Chinampas

Answer 3

Artificial islands

made of earth piled on reed mats anchored to a shallow lake

Question 4

The Iroquois league

Answer 4

An alliance of five Iroquois nations

Question 5

Anasazi

Answer 5

“ Cliff dwellers“

The best known society of the southwest; AD 900 and 1300

Question 6

Tribute

Answer 6

Payment that conquered peoples had to make to their conquerors

Question 7

Global warming

Answer 7

Worldwide temperature increase

Question 8

Tikal

Answer 8

The largest Mayan city.

Had large pyramids and palaces

Question 9

Incan empire

Answer 9

An Incan empire founded by Pachacuti in 1438

Very highly ordered society

Question 10

Mayas

Answer 10

Peoples who Flourished in southern Mexico in much of Central America between AD 300 and 900

Question 11

Kiva

Answer 11

large underground chamber used by the Anasazi for religious ceremonies

Question 12

Quipu

Answer 12

Knotted strings used by Incan officials for record keeping

Question 13

Cultural diffusion

Answer 13

The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one of people to another

Question 14

Sapa Inca

Answer 14

Emperor.

Pachacuti proclaimed himself sapa Inca

Question 15

Potlatch

Answer 15

Ceremonial gift giving by wealthy native Americans

Question 16

Olmecs

Answer 16

The earliest American civilization, emerged along the Mexican gulf coast

Question 17

Mound builders

Answer 17

People of a farming culture who left behind giant earthen mounds.

Question 18

Step terraces

Answer 18

Strips of land on steep hillsides held in place by stonewalls.

Kept rains from washing away the soil and made farming possible