WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY TEST
PAPER COMPLETE SOLUTIONS AND
ACCURATE RESPONSES
●● Incas
Answer: Who were expert road and bridge builders, colonizers, and
administrators?
●● Treaty of Tordesillas
Answer: During what did the pope split South American into East/West
divisions at a 46 degree longitude?
●● Middle America
Answer: What is considered the region from South American to the
islands?
●● Ancient cultural hearth
Answer: What is an ancient center of cultural innovations from which
ideas diffused?
●● Yucatan Peninsula/Guatamala and Honduras
Answer: What is the Mayan civilizations geographic location?
,●● Mayan civilization
Answer: Which civilization has a physical environment of tropical rain
forests, and low elevation?
●● 5000 up to 1200 years ago
Answer: When did the Mayan civilization peek?
●● Mayan civilization
Answer: Which civilization peeked anywhere from 5000 up to 1200
years ago?
●● Mayan civilization
Answer: Which civilization was said to have died out due to
overgrowing people, food production declined, and disease connected to
malnutrition?
●● Slash/burn
Answer: The Mayan's practiced what kind of cultivation?
●● Swidden
Answer: When the Mayan's picked a spot to slash/burn, what was the
spot called?
, ●● Slash/burn
Answer: What is the action of cutting and burning down trees to release
the nutrients back into the soil called?
●● Plant
Answer: What do the Mayans do with the swidden that is now ash filled
from the burnt down trees?
●● Shifting
Answer: The act of leaving one swidden untouched for a few years and
moving on to the next is called what?
●● Central Mexico
Answer: What was the location of the Aztec civilization?
●● Gold
Answer: What was the driving force of the Spanish coming to the
Americas?
●● Aztec civilization
Answer: Which civilization was established 15 - 25 million years ago
when the Spanish Cortez arrived?
PAPER COMPLETE SOLUTIONS AND
ACCURATE RESPONSES
●● Incas
Answer: Who were expert road and bridge builders, colonizers, and
administrators?
●● Treaty of Tordesillas
Answer: During what did the pope split South American into East/West
divisions at a 46 degree longitude?
●● Middle America
Answer: What is considered the region from South American to the
islands?
●● Ancient cultural hearth
Answer: What is an ancient center of cultural innovations from which
ideas diffused?
●● Yucatan Peninsula/Guatamala and Honduras
Answer: What is the Mayan civilizations geographic location?
,●● Mayan civilization
Answer: Which civilization has a physical environment of tropical rain
forests, and low elevation?
●● 5000 up to 1200 years ago
Answer: When did the Mayan civilization peek?
●● Mayan civilization
Answer: Which civilization peeked anywhere from 5000 up to 1200
years ago?
●● Mayan civilization
Answer: Which civilization was said to have died out due to
overgrowing people, food production declined, and disease connected to
malnutrition?
●● Slash/burn
Answer: The Mayan's practiced what kind of cultivation?
●● Swidden
Answer: When the Mayan's picked a spot to slash/burn, what was the
spot called?
, ●● Slash/burn
Answer: What is the action of cutting and burning down trees to release
the nutrients back into the soil called?
●● Plant
Answer: What do the Mayans do with the swidden that is now ash filled
from the burnt down trees?
●● Shifting
Answer: The act of leaving one swidden untouched for a few years and
moving on to the next is called what?
●● Central Mexico
Answer: What was the location of the Aztec civilization?
●● Gold
Answer: What was the driving force of the Spanish coming to the
Americas?
●● Aztec civilization
Answer: Which civilization was established 15 - 25 million years ago
when the Spanish Cortez arrived?
