Cities and Lost
Tribes - Chapter
13 + 14 TEST
(SOLVED &
UPDATED)
the inca entity in south america was: - answer an
empire encompassing hundreds of thousands of
people and nearly one million square kilometers of
territory
the inca state expanded through: - answer
military conquest
Charles Hastings and Michael Mosely have
suggested that the symbols they found on some of
, the adobe bricks in the Pyramid of the Sun
represent: - answer a record of the brick
contributions of local groups who helped build the
pyramid
The Inca system of record keeping was: - answer
not a writing system at all but one based on
knotted strings
The Inca practice of capacocha, whose details were
recorded by the Spanish, involved: - answer child
sacrifice
Among the later mound builders of North America,
Cahokia was: - answer by far the largest but not
the only impressive, densely settled, mound-
building community
What characteristics did Cahokia possess that
warrant its inclusion in the ranks of complex
chiefdom and early state societies? - answer
monumental works, elite burials
The purpose for most of the larger mounds—like
Monks Mound—built at places like Cahokia was: -
answer to serve as platforms for temples built at
their summits