Question 1

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
Chaco Canyon

Accepted Answer

Chaco Canyon is a historical site locate

Question 2

Which city was the capital of the Aztec empire?

Accepted Answer

A)  Tenochtitlán 
B)  Huitzilopochtli 
C)  Texcoco 
D)  Mexica 
E)  Zapotec 
A)  Tenochtitlán 
B)  Huitzilopochtli 
C)  Texcoco 
D)  Mexica 
E)  Zapotec

Question 3

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
pulque

Accepted Answer

Pulque is a traditional alcoholic bevera

Question 4

What was true about Teotihuacán?

Accepted Answer

A)  It did not engage in trade because of its infertile lands. 
B)  It produced great industrial structures. 
C)  It met its demise possibly due to drought or overuse of the land. 
D)  It was conquered by the Maya. 
E)  It left no historical records. 
A)  It did not engage in trade because of its infertile lands. 
B)  It produced great industrial structures. 
C)  It met its demise possibly due to drought or overuse of the land. 
D)  It was conquered by the Maya. 
E)  It left no historical records.

Question 5

The Inka king who began the conquests that led to the creation of their empire was

Accepted Answer

A)  Pizarro. 
B)  Huayna Inka. 
C)  Pachakuti. 
D)  Topa Inka. 
E)  Montezuma. 
A)  Pizarro. 
B)  Huayna Inka. 
C)  Pachakuti. 
D)  Topa Inka. 
E)  Montezuma.

Question 6

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
Cuzco and Machu Picchu

Accepted Answer

Cuzco was the capital of the Inca Empire

Question 7

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
Zapotec

Accepted Answer

The Zapotec were an indigenous civilizat

Question 8

The Moche culture

Accepted Answer

A)  was ended by a devastating pandemic of the Black Death. 
B)  was located in a rain forest. 
C)  may have been ended by environmental changes. 
D)  was pacifistic, perhaps the major cause of its long existence. 
E)  was destroyed by the Aztecs. 
A)  was ended by a devastating pandemic of the Black Death. 
B)  was located in a rain forest. 
C)  may have been ended by environmental changes. 
D)  was pacifistic, perhaps the major cause of its long existence. 
E)  was destroyed by the Aztecs.

Question 9

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
the Inka

Accepted Answer

The term "Inka" refers to the rulers of

Question 10

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
Chavin de Huantar

Accepted Answer

Chavín de Huántar is an archaeological s

Question 11

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
Carthaginians, Lost Tribes of Israel, and Atlantis

Accepted Answer

The Carthaginians were an ancient civili

Question 12

An extensive urban community was created at Chaco Canyon by the

Accepted Answer

A)  Apache. 
B)  Arawak. 
C)  Anasazi. 
D)  Navajo. 
E)  Paiute. 
A)  Apache. 
B)  Arawak. 
C)  Anasazi. 
D)  Navajo. 
E)  Paiute.

Question 13

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
cacao

Accepted Answer

Cacao is a term that refers to the plant

Question 14

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
Topa Inka and Huayna Inka

Accepted Answer

Topa Inka and Huayna Inka were both Inca

Question 15

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
Quetzalcoatl and Huitzilopochtli

Accepted Answer

Quetzalcoatl and Huitzilopochtli are bot

Question 16

At Cahokia, near East Saint Louis, archeologists have discovered a burial mount more than 98 feet high with a base larger than Egypt's Great Pyramid.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

During its heyday, how far did the Inka empire extend?

Accepted Answer

A)  From modern-day St.  Louis to the Pacific 
B)  From modern-day Mexico to San Salvador 
C)  From modern-day New Mexico to Chile 
D)  From modern-day Ecuador, central Chile and the Amazon basin 
E)  From the Isthmus of Panama to the Strait of Magellan 
A)  From modern-day St.  Louis to the Pacific 
B)  From modern-day Mexico to San Salvador 
C)  From modern-day New Mexico to Chile 
D)  From modern-day Ecuador, central Chile and the Amazon basin 
E)  From the Isthmus of Panama to the Strait of Magellan

Question 18

What was the purpose of the human sacrifices practiced by the Aztecs?

Accepted Answer

A)  To obtain the atman of the victim 
B)  To appease Huitzilopochtli, and thus delay the ultimate destruction of their world 
C)  To insure an abundant harvest 
D)  To insure long life for the emperor 
E)  To provide victims for the ball court games 
A)  To obtain the atman of the victim 
B)  To appease Huitzilopochtli, and thus delay the ultimate destruction of their world 
C)  To insure an abundant harvest 
D)  To insure long life for the emperor 
E)  To provide victims for the ball court games

Question 19

What were some of the elements that the Western Hemisphere lacked that would have made state building quicker and more complete? Why?

Accepted Answer

Some of the elements that the Western He

Question 20

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
Virgins with red cheeks

Accepted Answer

The term "virgins with red cheeks" refer

Exam 6: The Americas

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. Chaco Canyon

Which city was the capital of the Aztec empire?

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. pulque

What was true about Teotihuacán?

The Inka king who began the conquests that led to the creation of their empire was

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. Cuzco and Machu Picchu

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. Zapotec

The Moche culture

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. the Inka

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. Chavin de Huantar

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. Carthaginians, Lost Tribes of Israel, and Atlantis

An extensive urban community was created at Chaco Canyon by the

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. cacao

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. Topa Inka and Huayna Inka

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. Quetzalcoatl and Huitzilopochtli

At Cahokia, near East Saint Louis, archeologists have discovered a burial mount more than 98 feet high with a base larger than Egypt's Great Pyramid.

During its heyday, how far did the Inka empire extend?

What was the purpose of the human sacrifices practiced by the Aztecs?

What were some of the elements that the Western Hemisphere lacked that would have made state building quicker and more complete? Why?

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. Virgins with red cheeks

Early Humans and the First Civilizations

Ancient India

China in Antiquity

The Civilization of the Greeks

The Roman World Empire

Ferment in the Middle East: the Rise of Islam

Early Civilizations in Africa

The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia

The Flowering of Traditional China

The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam

The Making of Europe

The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in the West

New Encounters: the Creation of a World Market

Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building

The Muslim Empires

The East Asian World

The West on the Eve of a New World Order

The Beginnings of Modernization: Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century

The Americas and Society and Culture in the West

The High Tide of Imperialism

Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America From 1919 to 1939

The Crisis Deepens: World War Ii

East and West in the Grip of the Cold War

Brave New World: Communism on Trial

Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945

Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East

Toward the Pacific Century

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