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Question 1

Type of religion practiced by most “Indians” in the Americas

Answer 1

animism

Question 2

Festive gathering where tribes bring gifts to exchange with each other

Answer 2

potlach

Question 3

The Pueblo Indians are descendants of this tribe

Answer 3

anasazi

Question 4

Underground chamber where Pueblo religious leaders conducted ceremonies

Answer 4

kivas

Question 5

Southwestern tribe in Northern America who raided other tribes for food

Answer 5

apache

Question 6

Made plowing soil difficult in the Great Plains region

Answer 6

sod

Question 7

Formed a confederation of five North Eastern Indian tribes

Answer 7

Iroquois

Question 8

Earliest “Indian” group in the Central American Region

Answer 8

olmec

Question 9

Culture which peaked between 300 and 900 A.D. in the Yucatan peninsula

Answer 9

mayan

Question 10

Southwestern tribe in Northern America who were hunter/gathers and sheep herders

Answer 10

navajo

Question 11

There is new evidence of humans coming to the American continent how many years ago?

Answer 11

40,000

Question 12

The process of a general group of people becoming various distinct groups of people.

Answer 12

Differentiation

Question 13

Where was the entrance to the Mayan underworld?

Answer 13

caves

Question 14

“Indians” in northern America especially worshiped the spirits of plants and animals used for what?

Answer 14

food

Question 15

The Anasazi natives used what material to build their houses?

Answer 15

mud bricks

Question 16

Great Plains natives followed herds of what kind of animal and used them as a food source?

Answer 16

bison

Question 17

Name given to early Central American cultures.

Answer 17

mesoamerican

Question 18

40-ton stone heads, carved by which “Indian” group, were discovered by farmers in the 1930’s?

Answer 18

olmec

Question 19

What (who) was the Pok-a-Tok?

Answer 19

ceremonial game

Question 20

The Teotihuacanos were known for their trade of what material?

Answer 20

obsidian

Question 21

Mexica capital that was founded on an island on Lake Texcoco (present day Mexico City).

Answer 21

Tenochtitlan

Question 22

Which group set up a complex system of roads and runners along its territory in the Andes Mountains?

Answer 22

incas

Question 23

Which group made alliances with its close neighbors but conquered distant rivals which later caused those rivals to ally with the Spanish?

Answer 23

mexica

Question 24

Which of the following developed a hieroglyphic writing system?

Answer 24

maya and the aztec

Question 25

Which of the following civilization(s) used both a solar calendar and a ritual calendar?

Answer 25

both the maya and aztec

Question 26

Which answer best describes the land that the Inca people used to farm?

Answer 26

Strips of flat land carved from steep hillsides

Question 27

What was the largest native city in North America?

Answer 27

cahokia

Question 28

Wooden club with several embedded obsidian blades used by the Mexica

Answer 28

Macuahuitl

Question 29

The Indians known as the _______ Builders lived along the _______ and Mississippi River valleys.

Answer 29

mound, ohio

Question 30

Tribal groups used special _______ in their art and technology in order to identify themselves.

Answer 30

patterns

Question 31

It’s believed that ______ brought the downfall of the Mayan culture.

Answer 31

drought

Question 32

_______ were floating farms made out of long rafts with dirt piled on them and used by the Mexicas.

Answer 32

chinampas

Question 33

The ______ lines in modern Peru are believed to have been used during vision quests to communicate with the gods/spirits.

Answer 33

nazca

Question 34

Spanish warriors called ______ overthrew the Mexica and Incan governments.

Answer 34

conquistadors

Question 35

Mayan’s carved writing on stone, jade, bone, and shells, but their books were made out of ______< and only four have ever been found.

Answer 35

bark and plaster

Question 36

The ______ did not have a written language and instead used rope with knotted cords of different length and color called, ______.

Answer 36

incas, quipo

Question 37

Map question:

Answer 37

1. Inca; Modern-day Peru
2. Hispaniola; Islands
3. Aztec; Southwest corner of Mexico
4. Maya; Southeast corner of Mexico.