Civilizations of the Americas

Civilizations of the Americas

7th Grade

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Civilizations of the Americas

Civilizations of the Americas

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Social Studies

7th Grade

Easy

Created by

Kerry Huntly

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15 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

What concept did the Maya know about before Europeans?

Number Zero

How to use horses in war

How to build a pyramid

Human sacrifice

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How do we know about Maya society today?

Only from Spanish eye witness accounts

Only from Aztec accounts

From the glyphs they carved on stone and in books

From oral histories passed down

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the disadvantage of slash and burn farming?

It would cause deadly forest fires

It would lead to war

The soil would wear out and farmers would have to move on

When it rained the fields would flood

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was at the center of Maya cities?

Farms

Pyramids, palaces and plazas

canals

military forts

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What factors led to the fall of the Maya?

drought

disease

war with the Aztecs

war with the Portuguese

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Maya believed that their kings and priests could

be worshipped as gods

communicate with the gods

forbid human sacrifice

defeat the Spanish

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Maya build observatories to study the sky in order to

help decide when to use slash and burn farming

decide when it is best to declare war

to build complex calendars

to help decide where to build their temples

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