A) There was a common ethnicity among the population.
B) All villages sent representatives to the capital to engage in sporting activities.
C) They had an advanced system of roads that held the empire together.
D) Scholars translated local texts into Quechua, making all people feel like part of the empire.
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A) The region stretching from present-day central Mexico to Nicaragua
B) Central and South America
C) The region stretching from the Great Lakes of North America to South America
D) Present-day Central America
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A) Maize
B) Squash
C) Potatoes
D) Beans
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A) Stone
B) Strings
C) Animal bones
D) Obsidian
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A) The term used to designate the area spanning present-day central Mexico to Nicaragua.
B) An intricate system of knotted and colored strings used by early Andean cultures to store information such as census and tax records.
C) Boiling maize in a solution of water and mineral lime to break down compounds in the kernels, increasing their nutritional value.
D) The earliest advanced Mesoamerican civilization.
E) A Native American culture that thrived along Peru's northern coast between 100 and 800 C.E.
F) The name of the dynasty of rulers who built the largest and last indigenous empire across the Andes.
G) The official language of the Incas, it is still spoken by most Peruvians today.
H) A highly developed Mesoamerican culture centered in the Yucatán peninsula of Mexico. This culture created the most intricate writing system in the Western Hemisphere.
I) The monumental city-state that dominated trade in classical era Mesoamerica.
J) The language of the Aztecs, which they inherited from the Toltecs.
K) The dominant ethnic group of what is now Mexico, who created an empire based on war and religion that reached its height in the fifteenth century.
L) A large and prosperous Aztec city that was built starting in 1325. The Spanish admired it when they entered in 1519.
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A) They used hand-held farming implements.
B) They farmed in small, rectangular plots divided by canals.
C) Crops were planted in a systematic fashion.
D) Irrigation was an important part of the planting process.
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A) It appears that no other mounds were built nearby.
B) It was located near the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
C) It has a multitiered design.
D) It is enormous in size with a large, flat top tier.
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A) A floating garden where maize is grown
B) A ceremony in which war captives are sacrificed
C) A stone pillar monument on which Maya recorded important information
D) The ball used in an Aztec ballgame
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A) Their worship of the god of war, Huitzilopochtli
B) Their promotion of a strong agricultural and commercial economy
C) Superior military technology
D) An alliance system based on trade and tribute, backed by the use of force
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A) The Ohio River
B) The Mississippi River
C) The Missouri River
D) The Rio Grande
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A) Wealth
B) Intelligence
C) Military performance
D) Religious devotion
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A) They used irrigation canals.
B) They dug deep wells.
C) They hauled water from the coast.
D) They found water in deep natural wells.
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A) Build magnificent pyramids for their gods
B) Sacrifice human beings
C) Sacrifice livestock, particularly cattle
D) Destroy all competing societies
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A) The term used to designate the area spanning present-day central Mexico to Nicaragua.
B) An intricate system of knotted and colored strings used by early Andean cultures to store information such as census and tax records.
C) Boiling maize in a solution of water and mineral lime to break down compounds in the kernels, increasing their nutritional value.
D) The earliest advanced Mesoamerican civilization.
E) A Native American culture that thrived along Peru's northern coast between 100 and 800 C.E.
F) The name of the dynasty of rulers who built the largest and last indigenous empire across the Andes.
G) The official language of the Incas, it is still spoken by most Peruvians today.
H) A highly developed Mesoamerican culture centered in the Yucatán peninsula of Mexico. This culture created the most intricate writing system in the Western Hemisphere.
I) The monumental city-state that dominated trade in classical era Mesoamerica.
J) The language of the Aztecs, which they inherited from the Toltecs.
K) The dominant ethnic group of what is now Mexico, who created an empire based on war and religion that reached its height in the fifteenth century.
L) A large and prosperous Aztec city that was built starting in 1325. The Spanish admired it when they entered in 1519.
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A) religion.
B) mathematics.
C) war.
D) politics.
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