5 Written Questions

1. one of the greatest cities in the world, it was built by the Aztecs and it served as their capital and center for trade; it was constructed on a swampy island in present-day central Mexico.[means "place of the prickly pear cactus"]
2. Spanish soldier-explorer in the Americas
3. people who lived in the dry coastal desert of what is now Peru; they ruled from about A.D. 100 to A.D. 700; they irrigated their desert homeland with water from the rivers in the Andes mountain ranges
4. Native Americans in the Woodlands who set up a league which included five groups: Onondaga, Seneca, Mohawk, Oneida, and Cayuga; they wanted to end the fighting among themselves
5. the largest Native American city near the Mississippi in what is now southwestern Illinois; they built pyramid-shaped mounds with flat tops; the largest is called Monk's Mound; largest city in Mesoamerica (pop. 30,0000

5 Matching Questions

1. Inca
2. igloo
3. monopoly
4. Maya
5. Mesoamerica

1. a control of all (or almost all) trade or production of a certain good
2. b region which includes lands stretching from the Valley of Mexico to Costa Rica in Central America; farming began 9,000-10,000 years ago in this region
3. c ancient people who built a civilization in the steamy rain forests of the Yucatán Peninsula; they traded throughout Mesoamerica; they mysteriously abandoned their cities by the A.D. 900s
4. d ancient people who lived in the Andes mountain ranges of present-day Peru; they built the biggest empire in the ancient Americas
5. e dome-shaped home built by the Inuit

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. to look for; to attempt to find
   1. seek
   2. Inca
   3. Maya
   4. Olmec
2. civilization that thrived from about A.D. 300 to the mid A.D. 1300s; these people planted corn, cotton, beans, and squash between the Salt and Gila rivers; dug canals to carry water to their fields
   1. Cahokia
   2. Hohokam
   3. igloo
   4. Toltec
3. Spanish explorer who captured the Inca empire in Peru; Pizarro's conquest opened most of South America to Spanish rule; marched with Balboa; not of noble birth
   1. Francisco Pizarro
   2. glacier
   3. cooperation
   4. Cahokia
4. disloyalty to the government
   1. Petén
   2. igloo
   3. Inca
   4. treason
5. A Mayan woman given to Cortés by the Tabascans; she spoke both Mayan and Nahuati, the language of the Aztec; the information she gave Cortés helped him form alliances to defeat Montezuma
   1. Anasazi
   2. Inca
   3. Maya
   4. Malintzin

5 True/False Questions

1. Christopher Columbus → Italian sea captain who convinced Spain's rulers that he could reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean; he landed on an island in the Caribbean in 1492

   True        False

2. Petén → Mayan word for "flat region"; located in present-day Guatemala, these dense forests nearly blocked out the sun; it contained swamps and sinkholes which provided a year-round source of water

   True        False

3. Atahualpa → emperor of the Inca; Pizarro had him tried in a military court; he was sentenced to death in 1533

   True        False

4. Olmec → ancient people who lived near present-day Vera Cruz, Mexico; they built a far-reaching trading empire which began around 1200 B.C. and lasted about 800 years

   True        False

5. glacier → huge sheet of ice

   True        False