The best preserved Archaic sites are caves, such as:
A. Santa Isabel Iztapan
B. Guil Naquitz
C. Paso de la Amada
D. Tehuantepec
As an Aztec boy, you would be expected to:
A. attend school to learn how to become a warrior
B. learn how to weave cloth
C. grind maize and make tortillas
D. spin thread from cotton fibers
The apogee of the Lowland Classic Maya was:
A. during the Formative period
B. at the same time as the Aztecs
C. during the latter part of the Classic period
D. in the early part of the Classic period
Teotihuacan’s Pyramid of the Sun:
A. was completed by a labor force from outside the city
B. is estimated to have been built by one million workers
C. could have been built by 7,000 workers in ten years
D. was built in at least ten different phases
During the Middle Postclassic, the highlands of Guatemala:
A. suffered a collapse, similar to that of the lowland Classic Maya
B. drastically declined in population
C. contained hilltop sites for defense
D. enjoyed a time of peace
The Yanomamo people:
A. are a well-known contemporary Mesoamerican culture
B. are classified by anthropologists as an egalitarian agricultural tribe
C. have no leaders at all since they are a non-complex society
D. live in small cities along the Amazon River
Marketplaces in Mesoamerica:
A. had their roots in the Archaic period
B. had developed by the Late Formative
C. did not flourish until the Classic period
D. cannot be detected archaeologically
Naturalistic murals depicting everyday life among the Maya have been recovered at:
A. Calakmul
B. Tikal
C. Palenque
D. Bonampak
The hallucinogenic substance of peyote comes from:
A. maize
B. a toad
C. a cactus
D. maguey
If you were “one-rabbited” in Aztec society, especially during the 1450s, it meant that:
A. you had produced only one offspring
B. your fate was to be a rabbit farmer
C. you suffered from famine
D. rabbits had taken over your fields
The largest Late Formative site along the coastal Chiapas plain was:
A. Izapa
B. Takalik Abaj
C. Monte Alto
D. Sin Cabezas
During the Middle Formative, the largest site in the Valley of Oaxaca was:
A. Fbrica San Jos
B. Huitzo
C. Tierras Largas
D. San Jos Mogote
The main objects produced during the first period of Mesoamerican metallurgy were:
A. swords
B. axes
C. bells
D. necklaces
The culture core is comprised of:
A. the key features of a culture that pertain to subsistence
B. ideology and the organization of ideology
C. those features most directly related to meeting the most important material needs of a
society
D. a center of religious thought that instructs other parts of life
The oldest Mesoamerican Long Count dates and hieroglyphic writing come from the:
A. Maya lowlands
B. Oaxaca Valley
C. Isthmian region
D. Basin of Mexico
During the Late Formative (300 bc”ad 1):
A. chiefdoms everywhere evolved into states
B. the emergence of states began
C. most chiefdoms declined and people were regrouped into egalitarian forms of
sociopolitical organization
D. Mesoamerica achieved stability in all regions
During the early part of the Late Classic, Teotihuacan:
A. was still an important city, with tens of thousands of people living around it
B. increased trade and diplomacy with contemporary centers throughout Mesoamerica
C. morphed into an important pilgrimage site devoid of a resident population
D. competed with the lowland Maya to dominate Mesoamerica
MATCHING 2
1) Huaxtpec
2) Zempoala
3) Culhuacan
4) Cihuatecpan
5) Texcotzingo
A. Site of Nezahualcoyotl’s retreat
B. Location of the New Fire Ceremony
C. Most important Totonac center
D. Site of Motecuzma’s pleasure garden
E. Aztec rural palace
During the Early Formative era, half the population of the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico
was concentrated at:
A. San Jos Mogote
B. Tierras Largas
C. Monte Albn
D. San Lorenzo
The Olmec sites of _____ were abandoned by 400 bc.
A. San Lorenzo and Tres Zapotes
B. La Venta and San Lorenzo
C. La Venta, San Lorenzo, and Tres Zapotes
D. San Jos Mogote and Monte Albn
Around 1450, flooding in the Basin of Mexico:
A. resulted in the construction of a system of dikes
B. destroyed the capital city and set back the Aztecs’ conquest of the region
C. brought fresh water to all the lakes
D. helped to build up the chinampas
In the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, during the Middle/Late Formative, the settlement of
_____ came to be eclipsed by ______.
A. Monte Albn / Kaminaljuy
B. San Jos Mogote / Chalcatzingo
C. Takalik Abaj / Chalchuapa
D. San Jos Mogote / Monte Albn
Cuauhtmoc was:
A. made huetlatoani after the death of Motecuzma II
B. held prisoner in Axaycatl’s palace
C. the son of Cuitlahuac, who became the huetlatoani after his death
D. the son of Ahuitzotl, who was elected huetlatoani after the death of Cuitlahuac
The most important Mesoamerican site of the Middle Formative was:
A. San Lorenzo
B. La Venta
C. Chalchuapa
D. San Jos Mogote
The longest sacbe in Mesoamerica:
A. ran from Cob to Yaxun
B. was almost 500 miles long
C. was constructed during the Postclassic period
D. connected Chichn Itz to Cob
The first permanent European community on the American continent was founded at:
A. Darin
B. Tenochtitlan
C. Jamestown
D. Lima
The exceptional preservation of artifacts at El Manat, near San Lorenzo Tenochtitln, is
due to the:
A. special clays in which the objects were buried
B. extreme dryness of the arid cave sites
C. total submersion of the objects in water
D. durability of the objects themselves
Cantona in eastern Puebla, Mexico, is one of the largest Late Classic sites. This is
surprising because:
A. it is situated in inhospitable lands
B. the Maya had conquered it during the Middle Classic
C. a long drought had ended occupation there a few centuries before this period
D. it lacks natural resources and good agricultural lands
The Mesoamerican sweat bath:
A. dates back to at least the Early Formative
B. was invented by the Aztecs
C. is found only in Guerrero
D. lost its popularity after the decline of the Olmecs
During Period 2 (1200″1521), metalworking in Mesoamerica:
A. was confined to Western Mexico
B. focused on decorative items
C. witnessed a technological revolution
D. saw continuity in materials and methods prevail
MATCHING 2
1) Xalla
2) Tlajinga 33
3) Zacuala compound
4) Street of the Dead complex
5) La Ventilla compound
A. Residence of Teotihuacan’s third tradition of rulers
B. Finely built Teotihuacan apartment compound with murals
C. Palace of the early rulers at Teotihuacan
D. Apartment compound of potters at Teotihuacan
E. Compound where Teotihuacan glyphs were painted in the plaza
MATCHING 1
1) Ching
2) Coastal Chiapas
3) Matacapan
4) Kaminaljuy
5) Tikal
A. Teotihuacan’s supplier of cacao and jaguar pelts
B. Teotihuacan’s source of limestone
C. Maya site where Teotihuacan interfered with politics
D. Gulf Coast center controlled by Teotihuacan
E. Center in the Guatemala highlands that was controlled by Teotihuacan