Question 1

What does the Bonampak mural, located in southeastern Mexico, portray?

Accepted Answer

A)  the Olmec calendar 
B)  the offering of captives to a Maya lord for sacrifice to the gods 
C)  the god Quetzalcoatl 
D)  the Aztec goddess of fertility 
A)  the Olmec calendar 
B)  the offering of captives to a Maya lord for sacrifice to the gods 
C)  the god Quetzalcoatl 
D)  the Aztec goddess of fertility

Question 2

Which is Mesoamerica's earliest known civilization?

Accepted Answer

A)  Inka 
B)  Maya 
C)  Aztec 
D)  Olmec 
A)  Inka 
B)  Maya 
C)  Aztec 
D)  Olmec

Question 3

What civilization was located in southern Mexico and Guatemala?

Accepted Answer

A)  Aztec 
B)  Maya 
C)  Inka 
D)  Yupik 
A)  Aztec 
B)  Maya 
C)  Inka 
D)  Yupik

Question 4

What area did the Ancestral Puebloans inhabit?

Accepted Answer

A)  Canada 
B)  the U.S. Southwest 
C)  Brazil 
D)  the U.S. Midwest 
A)  Canada 
B)  the U.S. Southwest 
C)  Brazil 
D)  the U.S. Midwest

Question 5

Which of the following deities was worshipped by the people of Teotihuacán, the Maya, and the Aztecs?

Accepted Answer

A)  Chan Muwan 
B)  Itzamná 
C)  Quetzalcoatl 
D)  Popol Vuh 
A)  Chan Muwan 
B)  Itzamná 
C)  Quetzalcoatl 
D)  Popol Vuh

Question 6

Which of the following gives an account of the Aztec perspective of the encounter between the Aztecs and Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés?

Accepted Answer

A)  the Tenochtitlan register 
B)  the Sun Stone 
C)  the Florentine Codex 
D)  "Song of the Flight" 
A)  the Tenochtitlan register 
B)  the Sun Stone 
C)  the Florentine Codex 
D)  "Song of the Flight"

Question 7

A codex is a:

Accepted Answer

A)  document that provides a guide to decoding messages. 
B)  a form of paper used by Mesoamericans. 
C)  a bundle of manuscript pages stitched together. 
D)  a weapon used by European colonizers. 
A)  document that provides a guide to decoding messages. 
B)  a form of paper used by Mesoamericans. 
C)  a bundle of manuscript pages stitched together. 
D)  a weapon used by European colonizers.

Question 8

At its peak, around 600 CE, the population of Teotihuacán is believed to have been about _________, making it one of the world's largest cities at the time.

Accepted Answer

A)  25,000 
B)  200,000 
C)  12,000,000 
D)  20,000,000 
A)  25,000 
B)  200,000 
C)  12,000,000 
D)  20,000,000

Question 9

Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztec civilization, was built in the center of what is now ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  Lima 
B)  Honduras 
C)  Texas 
D)  Mexico City 
A)  Lima 
B)  Honduras 
C)  Texas 
D)  Mexico City

Question 10

Machu Picchu is located in which present-day country?

Accepted Answer

A)  Peru 
B)  Guatemala 
C)  Canada 
D)  Argentina 
A)  Peru 
B)  Guatemala 
C)  Canada 
D)  Argentina

Question 11

Who created earth mounds in what is now the state of Ohio?

Accepted Answer

A)  the Kwakiutl 
B)  the Puebloans 
C)  the Mississippian people 
D)  the Inuit 
A)  the Kwakiutl 
B)  the Puebloans 
C)  the Mississippian people 
D)  the Inuit

Question 12

Which of the following civilizations was NOT destroyed by European conquest?

Accepted Answer

A)  Aztec 
B)  Inka 
C)  Maya 
D)  Moche 
A)  Aztec 
B)  Inka 
C)  Maya 
D)  Moche

Question 13

Which civilization's writing system used logograms and syllabograms?

Accepted Answer

A)  Nazca 
B)  Inka 
C)  Maya 
D)  Olmec 
A)  Nazca 
B)  Inka 
C)  Maya 
D)  Olmec

Question 14

What do scholars believe was the significance and function of the Maya ball game?

Accepted Answer

The mythological origins of the ball gam

Question 15

What is the Popol Vuh?

Accepted Answer

A)  the name of a painting by Diego Rivera 
B)  an Aztec stone effigy 
C)  the Council Book of the Maya people 
D)  a ball game played by the Maya 
A)  the name of a painting by Diego Rivera 
B)  an Aztec stone effigy 
C)  the Council Book of the Maya people 
D)  a ball game played by the Maya

Question 16

Which of the following peoples thrived in the coastal desert of what is now northern Peru?

Accepted Answer

A)  Inuit 
B)  Kwakiutl 
C)  Pueblo 
D)  Moche 
A)  Inuit 
B)  Kwakiutl 
C)  Pueblo 
D)  Moche

Question 17

What is the proper name for the Aztec Calendar (or Sun) Stone?

Accepted Answer

A)  the Jalisco 
B)  the Cuauhxicalli Eagle Bowl 
C)  the Coatlicue 
D)  the Nazca Array 
A)  the Jalisco 
B)  the Cuauhxicalli Eagle Bowl 
C)  the Coatlicue 
D)  the Nazca Array

Question 18

Why did the Aztec people settle in central Mexico?

Accepted Answer

A prophecy had foretold that they would

Question 19

Nahuatl was the language of which civilization?

Accepted Answer

A)  Nazca 
B)  Moche 
C)  Olmec 
D)  Aztec 
A)  Nazca 
B)  Moche 
C)  Olmec 
D)  Aztec

Question 20

Which term refers to a person who communicates with spirits, and who may enter a trance state during religious rituals?

Accepted Answer

A)  shaman 
B)  totem 
C)  moai 
D)  dualist 
A)  shaman 
B)  totem 
C)  moai 
D)  dualist

Exam 16: Cultural Centers of the Americas

What does the Bonampak mural, located in southeastern Mexico, portray?

Which is Mesoamerica's earliest known civilization?

What civilization was located in southern Mexico and Guatemala?

What area did the Ancestral Puebloans inhabit?

Which of the following deities was worshipped by the people of Teotihuacán, the Maya, and the Aztecs?

Which of the following gives an account of the Aztec perspective of the encounter between the Aztecs and Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés?

A codex is a:

At its peak, around 600 CE, the population of Teotihuacán is believed to have been about _________, making it one of the world's largest cities at the time.

Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztec civilization, was built in the center of what is now ________.

Machu Picchu is located in which present-day country?

Who created earth mounds in what is now the state of Ohio?

Which of the following civilizations was NOT destroyed by European conquest?

Which civilization's writing system used logograms and syllabograms?

What do scholars believe was the significance and function of the Maya ball game?

What is the Popol Vuh?

Which of the following peoples thrived in the coastal desert of what is now northern Peru?

What is the proper name for the Aztec Calendar (or Sun) Stone?

Why did the Aztec people settle in central Mexico?

Nahuatl was the language of which civilization?

Which term refers to a person who communicates with spirits, and who may enter a trance state during religious rituals?

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