Lesson 1-3: Middle America

The shift of living in settled villages and growing plants for food is known as the what?

• Technologic Revolution
• Agricultural Revolution
• American Revolution
• Industrial Revolution

The Olmec and Zapotec were peoples that lived where in ancient times?

• Mesoamerica
• South America
• North America
• Africa

The Olmec people lived in the what?

• antarctica
• desert
• rain forest
• South Pacific

The Zapotec developed what may have been the first system of what around 600 BCE?

• reading
• talking
• writing
• music

Most Mayan people did not live in cities, they lived in what?

• towns
• camps
• cities
• villages

The three main groups of Mayan society were what?

• Nobles, middle class, and commoners
• Wealthy, rich, and poor
• Powerful, strong, and weak
• Obsidian, jade, and feathers

The center of the Mayan economy was the production of what?

• furs
• food
• obsidian
• trees

Each Mayan city-state had its own what?

• key
• oligarchy
• sacrifice
• king

Mayan kings increased their power by doing what?

• taking control of land
• taking control of trade routes
• going to war
• all of the aboive

Most of the Mayan gods represented what?

• former kings
• the stars in the sky
• the four seasons
• forces of nature