NB Quiz 8-9

Question 1

What century did the Aztecs conquer Mesoamerica?

Answer 1

14th

Question 2

What was their capital?

Answer 2

Tenochtitlan

Question 3

What was their iconic religious ritual?

Answer 3

blood sacrifices

Question 4

What was the name of their unique form of agriculture that farmed from small islands?

Answer 4

chinampas

Question 5

What was the name of the Incan state-run labor system?

Answer 5

mit’a system

Question 6

What was the unique form of agriculture used by the Incans to combat flooding and collect water?

Answer 6

waru waru

Question 7

Which city-state was strategically positioned on the ‘Gateway to the Pacific / China?’

Answer 7

Malaka

Question 8

Which city-state controlled the Mediterranean Sea trade network and functioned as the middlemen for Europe with the Byzantine Empire, caliphates, Mongols, and had an impressive navy to enforce its trade?

Answer 8

Venice

Question 9

Which city-state was located on the outskirts of the Indian coastline?

Answer 9

Calicut

Question 10

Which Southeast Asian Empire, now Cambodia, Malaysia, and Thailand, constructed Angkor Wat?

Answer 10

Khmer Empire

Question 11

This was the sub-Saharan African Empire that remained an independent Christian kingdom until the 20 century.

Answer 11

Solomonic dynasty

Question 12

This was the sub-Saharan African Empire that flourished as the tail end of a large interregional trade network that stretched as far as China.

Answer 12

Great Zimbabwe

Question 13

These were a series of kingdoms in West Africa that benefited from trade between the city states of the empires of Ghana, Mali, and the later Songhai Dynasty.

Answer 13

Hausa Kingdoms