Deck 7: Developing Civilizations

Question 1

Identification
the Maya

Answer 1

not answer

Question 2

Identification
Copan

Answer 2

not answer

Question 3

Which of the following statements about the city of Teotihuacán is false?

A)Its name means "Abode of the Gods" in Aztec.
B)By 500 C.E., it had a population of about 500,000 people.
C)It was supplied water by a dozen large, permanent springs.
D)It held a pyramid that was almost six hundred feet square.
E)all of these choices

Answer 3

By 500 C.E., it had a population of about 500,000 people.

Question 4

Identification
Tikal

Question 5

Identification
Quetzalcoatl

Question 6

Identification
Nauhuatl

Question 7

Identification
Tlaloc

Question 8

Identification
Moctezuma

Question 9

The civilization of Teotihuacán was centered in

A)an arid valley about thirty miles northeast of present Mexico City.
B)the Yucatan Peninsula.
C)the Baja Peninsula.
D)the Andean uplands of central Peru.
E)none of these choices

Question 10

The culminating Mesoamerican Amerindian empire was the

A)Mayan.
B)Inka.
C)Olmec.
D)Toltec.
E)none of these choices

Question 11

Identification
Aztecs

Question 12

Identification
Popol Vuh

Question 13

Identification
Toltec

Question 14

Identification
Lake Texcoco

Question 15

Identification
Chichen-Itza

Question 16

Identification
Teotihuacán

Question 17

The Maya creation-story differs from those of other cultures in that

A)it is written in verse.
B)human beings are playthings of the gods.
C)there is no concept of a "fall."
D)all of these choices
E)none of these choices

Question 18

Identification
Yucatan

Question 19

Most people had abandoned the city of Teotihuacán and were settled in the outlying villages by

A)1200 B.C.E.
B)100 C.E.
C)800 C.E.
D)1500 C.E.
E)none of these choices.

Question 20

Identification
Tenochtitlán

Question 21

Identification
Chan Chan

Question 22

Describe the extent and nature of our written evidence for the Maya civilization.

Question 23

All of the following contributed to the final decline of the Maya except

A)plagues.
B)disastrous weather.
C)recurrent warfare.
D)lack of effective central authority.
E)none of these choices

Question 24

What was the rationale for human sacrifice among the Aztecs?

Question 25

Describe the legend the Aztecs told regarding their original choice of an island home.

Question 26

According to the Mayan calendar, the 260 day Mayan year coincided with the 365 day solar calendar once every

A)420,000 days.
B)325 years.
C)778 years.
D)18,980 days
E)none of these choices

Question 27

Teotihuacán religion involved

A)worship of a female divinity who provided the springs of water.
B)worship of a feathered serpent who was a manifestation of Venus.
C)the sacrifice of human prisoners in public ceremonies.
D)all of these choices
E)none of these choices

Question 28

The Maya civilization

A)used a language that has remained undeciphered.
B)left no written records whatever.
C)is better known to us than that of either the Olmec or Teotihuacán.
D)blossomed in the mountainous areas of Guatemala.
E)none of these choices

Question 29

Describe briefly the Maya calendar.

Question 30

In Aztec society,

A)distinction in war brought upward mobility for nobles.
B)it was impossible to rise from low social status to high office.
C)most offices were hereditary.
D)commoners owned only their personal possessions and the land they worked.
E)none of these choices

Question 31

Maya civilization enjoyed a period of revival

A)centered in the Yucatan Peninsula.
B)about 350 C.E.
C)with continual warfare against the Toltec.
D)but no long-distance trade.
E)none of these choices

Question 32

Identification
Inka

Question 33

In religion, the

A)food for the Aztec Sun God was maize.
B)need for human sacrificial victims spurred the Aztecs to make war in order to obtain captives.
C)Aztecs worshiped their own deities, and did not borrow gods from other Mesoamerican cultures.
D)all of these choices
E)none of these choices

Question 34

Identification
Chavin Culture

Question 35

Which of the following statements about the Aztec Empire is false?

A)It was tightly organized politically.
B)It was a means of gathering tribute and of getting victims for sacrificial rites.
C)In its exploitative aspects, it resembled the Roman Empire.
D)The Aztecs generally did not maintain a military occupation of their conquered territories.
E)none of these choices

Question 36

Discuss Maya notions of afterlife.

Question 37

The Maya civilization

A)featured a strong central authority that governed all the Maya cities.
B)possessed neither the pyramids nor the walled ball courts of the Teotihuacán civilization.
C)made extensive use of the wheel and domesticated animals for transportation.
D)possessed a network of good roads.
E)none of these choices

Question 38

By 1500, the Aztec Empire dominated

A)2.8 million people.
B)12.8 million people.
C)22.8 million people.
D)28 million people.
E)208 million people.

Question 39

Identification
Cuzco

Question 40

Briefly describe the main physical features of the city of Teotihuacán.

Question 41

The Moche society dominated coastal Peru and the neighboring hill country between

A)3000 and 2000 B.C.E.
B)700 and 100 B.C.E.
C)700 B.C.E. and 100 C.E.
D)100 and 700 C.E.
E)700 and 1100 C.E.

Question 42

Inka religion

A)had public worship of the Sun God as its primary focus.
B)was exclusively anthropomorphic.
C)had no concept of sin.
D)held that the soul was extinguished at death.
E)was obsessed with lucky and unlucky days.

Question 43

Describe the Inka method of controlling the territory it acquired through conquest.

Question 44

Briefly describe the city of Chan Chan.

Question 45

Which of the following statements about the Inka is false?

A)Their social and governmental system was intensely hierarchic.
B)They lacked writing.
C)They developed an extensive road system.
D)Their economic system was essentially state socialism.
E)They required conquered peoples to worship only Inka gods.

Question 46

Identification
Pachacutec

Question 47

Which of the following statements about Moche civilization is false?

A)It followed the Chavin.
B)Its climate was like that of Mesopotamia.
C)The diet of its people was more nutritious than that of others in South America.
D)Its royal tombs held artifacts demonstrating advanced skills in the working of precious materials.
E)it was a literate culture

Question 48

Identification
Lake Titicaca

Question 49

Identification
Qhapaq

Question 50

What do we know about Moche religion in general?

Question 51

Identify three problems that beset the Inka Empire just before the Spanish conquest.

Question 52

Which of the following statements about the Moche culture is false?

A)Socially, it featured a rigid hierarchy.
B)Its tombs have yielded only few and poor grave goods to date.
C)It depended on an elaborate irrigation system.
D)It lacked a written language.
E)all of these choices

Question 53

Identification
Quecha

Question 54

Identification
Wayna

Question 55

Identification
Moche

Question 56

Identification
Tawantinsuyu

Question 57

Garcilaso de la Vega

A)wrote a book titled Royal Commentaries of the Inkas.
B)believed in the essential justice of Inka rule in Peru.
C)was related to the last two Inka rulers.
D)all of these choices
E)none of these choices

Question 58

Moche jewelers and artists

A)worked with gold, silver, and platinum.
B)were familiar with the lost-wax method of casting.
C)created necklaces, ear and nose plugs, and ritual masks.
D)all of these choices
E)none of these choices

Question 59

Identification
Thupa Yupanki

Question 60

The Inka Empire

A)preceded the Moche.
B)started its rise to power from the city of Chanchan.
C)experienced explosive expansion shortly after 800 C.E.
D)included twelve million people in a domain stretching 3000 miles from north to south.
E)was more populous than the Aztec Empire.

Question 61

Identification
Idris ibn Ali

Question 62

Identification
Axum

Question 63

Identify at least three ways in which the Inka government regulated the personal lives of its subjects.

Question 64

Identification
Ashanti

Question 65

Identification
Ghana

Question 66

Identification
Akan

Question 67

Identification
Muhammad the Great

Question 68

Identification
Berbers

Question 69

Identification
Kongo kingdom

Question 70

Identification
Mali

Question 71

Identification
Kikuyu

Question 72

Identification
Ge'ez

Question 73

Identification
Morocco

Question 74

Identification
Coptic

Question 75

Identification
King Ezana

Question 76

Identification
Bantu

Question 77

Identification
Mansa Kankan Musa

Question 78

Identification
Benin

Question 79

Identification
Lalibela

Question 80

Identification
Afonso I