APWH
Coach Mattox
Chapter 11
Terms, People, Events
The Americas on the Eve of European Expansion
1. Why is using the term ”Indian” to describe Native American peoples
problematic?
2. List the two civilizations that emerged after the fall of the people of Teotihuacan.
3. What led to the fall of the Toltec’s around 1150?
4. By what other name are the Aztecs know?
5. What sign did the Aztecs believe signaled the end of their wandering?
6. What was the relationship of the Aztecs to the Toltecs?
7. What was the political organization of the Aztecs?
8. What was a “flower war?”
9. Discuss Aztec religion.
10. What other major world belief system does Aztec religion resemble?
11. What were the three main classifications of Aztec gods? Who was the chief god
of each cult?
12. What practice was most notable about Aztec religion?
13. What modern city exists on the site of the former Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan?
14. What was the economic organization of the Aztec empire?
15. Describe the chinampas.
16. What was the social organization of the Aztec Empire?
17. Discuss the role of the calpulli.
18. Discuss the role of women in Aztec society.
19. What main technological constraint kept women busy primarily preparing food?
20. What are the estimates as to how many people the Aztecs ruled over?
21. Discuss a tribute empire?
22. What are the estimates as to how many people the Incas ruled over?
23. Discuss the concept of split inheritance and how it affected the expansion of the
Inca Empire.
24. What are the basic components of Inca religion?
25. What was the political organization of the Inca Empire?
26. What the primary linguistic connection of the Inca Empire?
27. Discuss Inca Socialism.
28. What was the economic organization of the Inca Empire?
29. What was the social organization of the Inca Empire?
30. What was the Quipu?
31. List some technological achievements of the Inca’s.
32. How did the other Indian groups of the Americas differ from the imperial
cultures?
33. How many Native American’s lived in the western hemisphere prior to the arrival
of the Europeans in 1492?
34. How were American societies different from European society?