Mesoamerican Civilizations Quiz Practice

people of the Yucatan peninsula who developed the only complete writing system in early America

• Maya
• Olmec
• Aztec
• Inca

earliest civilization in Mexico that flourished from about 1200 b.c. to 400 b.c.

• Olmec
• Maya
• Toltec
• Aztec

civilization in what is now Peru that built multistory buildings, aqueducts, and terraced farming

• Inca
• Maya
• Olmec
• Aztec

pyramid-building people of central Mexico in the AD 800s to 1100s

• Maya
• Toltec
• Olmec
• Aztec

warrior culture that lived in central Mexico when Cortes arrived

• Aztec
• Maya
• Olmec
• Inca

Quetzalcoatl was

• a god worshiped by the Toltec and Aztec civilizations
• the first ruler of the Incan Empire
• the leader of the Aztec when Cortes arrived

This empire was experiencing civil war when the Spanish arrived

• Inca
• Maya
• Olmec
• Aztec

These two civilizations were at their height about the same time (1400s-1500s) but in different parts of Latin America

• Inca and Aztec
• Maya and Olmec
• Toltec and Olmec
• Maya and Inca

They farmed on chinampas, floating fields made with lake mud

• Aztec
• Inca
• Maya
• Olmec

They settled on an island in Lake Texcoco (now Mexico City)

• Aztec
• Inca
• Maya
• Olmec