Pretest 7.7.2

Question
Mayas
1. Who lead most of the Maya’Äôs small villages?
2. When the head of the office dies or retires who does the office get passed down to?
3. What were the two main groups of social structure?
4. Who was born into powerful families?
5. What were most Maya’Äôs jobs?
6. What were the men’Äôs jobs and what were women’Äôs jobs?
7. What was the basic social unit?
8. What’Äôs extended family?
9. Were do the people go for major ceremonies?
10. For entertainment what did they play?
11. How was there playing field landscape?
12. What was a ballgame to them?
13. How did kings increase their power?
14. What did Maya leaders create instead of true empires?
15. What is a sphere of influence?
16. What did they form to increase on another’Äôs power?
17. What’Äôs an alliance?
18. Because of their orthodox ways did they worship one or many gods?
19. What was their most startling ritual?
20. What did they include in their festivals?

Answers
1. They were led by local chiefs.
2. It was passed down from father to son.
3. Nobles and commoners.
4. Aristocrats.
5. Most of Maya’Äôs were farmers.
6. They worked the fields, hunted, and maintained the village buildings. Women prepared food, tended the gardens and livestock, raised the children, and stayed close to home; they were also creative and made jewelry and pottery.
7. Extended family.
8. A group of several related families that lived together.
9. They flock to the cities.
10. They played ballgame.
11. The court had sloping stone sides.
12. A ball game to them wasn’Äôt just a game, it was a sacred ritual.
13. Through warfare.
14. They created spheres of influence.
15. Sphere of Influence~ an area that is strongly influenced or dominated by particular ruler or government.
16. Alliances
17. Alliance~ is an agreement between people or state to cooperate to achieve a common goal.
18. They worshiped many gods.
19. The blood ritual of Human sacrifice.
20. Elaborate costumes, music, and ritual dancing.


Questions
Incas
1. What did Incas have in common with the Mayas?
2. What were the two larger classes in the Inca society?
3. Each class had its own’Ķ?
4. What was at the top of the three ranks of nobles?
5. What came appointed to the top rank, also state the third rank.
6. What categories were the Inca commoners divided into?
7. What were boys, girl, men, and women’Äôs jobs?
8. What age did girls usually get married at?
9. What were the Inca communities called?
10. How were their houses built?
11. What did the Incas share?
12. What was all Inca land called?
13. The state was divided into three parts which were?
14. Was there a lot of trade in the Inca world?
15. Why was there little trade?
16. What were the two main gods that the Incas worshiped? What was the most important one?
Answers
1. They both had a rigid social structure.
2. Nobles and commoners
3. Hierarchy or a system for ranking members of a group according to their importance.
4. Nobles by birth.
5. Next came appointed nobles, and thirdly ranked local chiefs.
6. They were based on their age and sex.
7. Boys ages 9 and 16 were assigned to herding the llamas and alpacas.
Girls ages 9 to 12 had the task of gathering wild plants for dyes and medicines.
Men including old men did the heavy work. The men’Äôs ages were usually 25 to 50.
8. Around the age 16 unless they were trained tot do state service.
9. Ayllus
10. They lived in a house with one room built out of stone or mud brick.
11. They shared everything together including land, food, animals, work, and recourses.
12. Community property, which is owned and managed by the government for public use.
13. One for government, one for the priests and the religion.
14. No.
15. Because they didn’Äôt use money, the less money they owned the less people would want to make deals with them.
16. Viracocha which was the moon, and stars, and Inti the sun god. The most important one out of both of them is Inti.



Questions
Aztecs

1. What did they have alike with the Mayas and the Incas?
2. Where did commoners and extended families live?
3. What did their diet consist of?
4. Who were at the lowest level of society, and who did they work for?
5. Unlike class differences, life for Aztecs followed what?
6. What did commoners lives revolve around?
7. What were other jobs that commoners had?
8. What did the Aztecs win from going out to war?
9. What was kingship in The Aztec Empire passed down from?
10. Who were four of the people who helped the King run the government?
11. Who was the fifth person who helped the king run the government?
12. Who was below a prime minister?
13. How many gods did the Aztec worship?
14. Who was their strongest god?
15. If Huitzilopochtli didn’Äôt give a human sacrifice what did he Aztecs believe would happen?

Answers
1. They were al agrarian people or their lives were related to farming/
2. Commoners lived humbly, and extended family lived in conjoining house in the central courtyard.
3. Corn, beans, and chili peppers.
4. Slaves were at the bottom who worked for nobles.
5. Similar patterns.
6. Farming or household duties.
7. Some were artisans, making fine craft goods for noble families, and long distant traders.
8. They got tributes, or goods paid as taxes by conquered people.
9. Father to son.
10. Military commanders.
11. The fifth person was the prime minister.
12. Judges, clerks, and tax collectors.
13. Hundreds.
14. Tezcatlipoca or the Smoking Mirror.
15. They believed it would make him weak and the sun would disappear.