Question 1

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 MayaE) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 2

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"E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 3

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 fertilityE) C) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 4

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)   MocheE) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 5

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 InuitE) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 6

Which is Mesoamerica's earliest known civilization?

Accepted Answer

A)   Inka
B)   Maya
C)   Aztec
D)   OlmecE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 7

Nahuatl was the language of which civilization?

Accepted Answer

A)   Nazca
B)   Moche
C)   Olmec
D)   AztecE) None of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 8

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.E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 9

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)   dualistE) None of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 10

What area did the Ancestral Puebloans inhabit?

Accepted Answer

A)   Canada
B)   the U.S. Southwest
C)   Brazil
D)   the U.S. MidwestE) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 11

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 CityE) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

Question 12

Which civilization's writing system used logograms and syllabograms?

Accepted Answer

A)   Nazca
B)   Inka
C)   Maya
D)   OlmecE) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 13

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 ArrayE) None of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 14

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)   20,000,000E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 15

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

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Question 16

Why did the Aztec people settle in central Mexico?

Accepted Answer

A prophecy had foretold that they would ...

Question 17

Machu Picchu is located in which present-day country?

Accepted Answer

A)   Peru
B)   Guatemala
C)   Canada
D)   ArgentinaE) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

Question 18

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 VuhE) B) and C)
F) All of the above

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

A)   Aztec
B)   Inka
C)   Maya
D)   MocheE) A) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 20

What civilization was located in southern Mexico and Guatemala?

Accepted Answer

A)   Aztec
B)   Maya
C)   Inka
D)   YupikE) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Exam 16: Cultural Centers of the Americas

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

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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.

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

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Machu Picchu is located in which present-day country?

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

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What area did the Ancestral Puebloans inhabit?

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What civilization was located in southern Mexico and Guatemala?

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What is the Popol Vuh?

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Nahuatl was the language of which civilization?

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

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

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

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Which is Mesoamerica's earliest known civilization?

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Which civilization's writing system used logograms and syllabograms?

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Why did the Aztec people settle in central Mexico?

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

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

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A codex is a:

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

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

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