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Chapter 9
The Americas
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History
7th Grade
05/02/2008

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What is true about the Beringa land bridge today?
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The land is covered by water from the glacial melt at the end of the Ice Age.
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The Moche people prospered because they
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irrigated crops.
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Why did the Maya choose to settle in the Peten?
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It had a good water supply.
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What had to happen before people in America could begin farming?
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The Ice Age had to end,the climate had to get warmer, and it had to discovered that planted seeds would grow into edible crops.
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Most Spanish conquistadors came from
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the Extremadura.
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How did the Spanish explorers defeat the Aztec?
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With guns, horses, and an epidemic.
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Portuguese explorers were different from Spanish explorers because they focused on
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exploring the coast of Africa.
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What did the Beringia land bridge use to connect?
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Asia to North America
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What were the results of the Mayan religion?
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Human sacrifice, a strict social class system for their society, and the building of huge pyramids were the result of the Mayan religion.
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Why did Montezuma wait to attack the invading Spaniards?
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He thought Cortes was a god.
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 Name one major accomplishment for the Inca leader Pachacuti.
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He built a huge ancient empire.
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Why did Maya seek captives in war?
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To work in the fields and to offer as human sacrifices to gods
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 Which civilization appeared first in the Americas?

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the Olmec
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How did the earliest prehistoric peoples survive in the Americas?
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by hunting and gathering
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How were the farming techniques of the Inca and the Aztec similar?
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They both used irrigation and fertilizers.
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Who was Hernan Cortes?
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Conqueror of the Aztec

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Why did the conquistadors came to the Americas?
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to search for riches
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Desribe the social class in the Aztec Empire.
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It could change with an act of bravery in war and was inherited.
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Where were the Mayan city-states located?
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in the dense forests of the Peten
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Who defeated the Aztec?
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Hernan Cortes
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Who defeated the Inca?
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Francisco Pizarro
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Who held the sole right to trade in obsidian?
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Toltec
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