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Study Guide Answers
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1.
What is the climate like in the part of Mexico that is below 3,000 feet?
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tropical - always hot |
2.
Where, in Mexico, is the climate temperate?
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on the sides of mountain slopes |
3.
Where, in Mexico, is the weather always cool?
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on the forested slopes and high plateaus between 7,000 and 10,000 feet above sea level |
4.
What is the tallest of Mexico's volcanoes? How high is it?
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Mount Orizaba/ 18,700 feet |
5.
According to legend, what is an Indian prince, transformed into a mountain?
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Popocatepetl |
6.
The ancient prophets of Mexico described ____________________________ great periods of time.
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five |
7.
How does each of these periods (referred to in #6) end?
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in disaster |
8.
Who were Mexico's earliest inhabitants?
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Stone Age hunters |
9.
How did the people (named in #8) get to the Americas?
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During the last Ice Age, they crossed a land bridge between what is now Siberia and Alaska. |
10.
How long ago did primitive people arrive in Mexico?
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about 20,000 years ago |
11.
When did Mexico's climate become hotter and drier?
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about 9,000 years ago |
12.
People learned to weave plant fiber into ________________________, _______________________,and ___________________________________.
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baskets, rope, clothing |
13.
During what period did native Mexicans begin to experiment with the cultivation of plants?
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the Archaïc Period |
14.
Dogs served what purpose during the period of time named in #13 (above)?
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They were food. |
15.
By when were many Mexicans living in small farming villages?
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by about 1500 BC |
16.
The "Formative Period" is marked by evidence of what two things?
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increased use of pottery and numerous villages |
17.
What was the most important food crop of "The Formative Period"?
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maize, or corn |
18.
What developed to explain the origins of the vital food source named in #17 (above)?
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legends |
19.
Maize is descended from a wild ___________________________________.
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grass |
20.
Flat corn cakes are called "______________________________."
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tortillas |
21.
What other crops were cultivated?
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beans, squash, chiles |
22.
Chiles provided vitamin __________________.
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C |
23.
In what regions were maguey thorns used as needles?
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in dry, highland regions |
24.
For what was the juice of the maguey used?
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to make a nutritious, but intoxicating beverage |
25.
What was an important source of meat?
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wild game ( also domesticated dogs, turkeys, and perhaps, ducks) |
26.
Small pottery figures of ____________________________ were often buried with villagers.
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women |
27.
When was Mexico's oldest complex civilization created?
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between 1200 and 900 BC |
28.
What was the civilization referred to in #27 (above)?
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the Olmec civilization |
29.
Where did the people of this civilization live and thrive?
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in the humid Gulf Coast Region |
30.
What animal served as an important religious symbol for the people of this civilization?
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the jaguar |
31.
Where have three important ceremonial centers of this civilization been found?
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La Venta, San Lorenzo, Tres Zapotes |
32.
Where was stone quarried for this civilization's elaborately carved monuments?
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in the Tuxtla Mountains |
33.
Physical features of the Olmecs appear to be similar to the physical features of what other people?
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Africans |
34.
What place may have been an Olmec frontier outpost?
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Chalcatzingo, Morelas |
35.
How is this region different from the Olmec homeland?
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It is much drier. |
36.
In addition to mathematics, the Olmecs appear to have developed the New World's first _________________________________ and __________________________ writing.
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calendar/ hieroglyphic |
37.
Olmec-influenced settlements grew in the Valley of ______________________________.
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Oaxaca |
38.
Where was ancient Mexico's first true city? When did it come into existence?
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at Monte Alban/ about 500 BC |
39.
The people of today's Oaxaca Valley are ____________________________________.
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Zapotecs |
40.
The people of Monte Alban had a(n) _______________________-year calendar cycle.
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fifty-two |
41.
For what was "Building J" probably used?
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an observatory |
42.
Rulers of Monte Alban were in contact with residents of what other city-state?
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Teotihuacán |
43.
In what region of Mexico was this other city-state?
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in the central highlands |
44.
Teotihuacán achieved dominance over the Valley of _________________________.
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Mexico |
45.
Teotihuacán is the location of the famous Pyramid of the ________________________.
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Sun |
46.
Teotihuacán was at an intersection of ancient _________________________________________.
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trade routes |
47.
What were the artificial islands used for farming, which were built in lakes?
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chinampas |
48.
What was found in a cave that's covered by the Pyramid of the Sun?
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religious offerings that predate the founding of Teotihuacán |
49.
When was Teotihuacán destroyed?
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circa 600 AD |
50.
When did the Spanish conquerors arrive in Mexico?
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in 1519 |
51.
What indigenous civilization was in power at the time of the Spanish conquest?
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the Aztec civilization |
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