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Survey Final Exam 2025/2026 – 100 Questions with Verified Answers | Architecture, Ritual Practices, Ancient Civilizations

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This comprehensive study document for the Survey Final Exam 2025/2026 provides 100 expertly answered questions with the most recent updates. It covers major topics such as Mesoamerican and North American architecture, ritual and burial practices, calendar systems, and sacred paths in ancient civilizations like the Maya, Aztec, Inca, Hopewell, Mississippian, and Ancient Puebloan cultures. Also included are African historical and religious architectural practices across the Kingdom of Aksum, Great Zimbabwe, and the Sahel region, alongside Christian Ethiopian structures like the Church of Saint George and Lalibela. This document is especially valuable for students of Art History, Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture, Religious Studies, and World History. It suits university students across undergraduate and postgraduate levels, particularly those preparing for architecture surveys, cultural heritage exams, and civilization studies. Keywords: Mesoamerican architecture Mayan calendar Hopewell culture Mississippian mounds Teotihuacan Aztec rituals Chaco Canyon Cahokia Ancient Puebloans African ancestral shrines Kingdom of Aksum Great Mosque of Djenne Lalibela churches Inca empire Machu Picchu Temple of the Sun Cultural landscapes Human sacrifice Ball courts Ceremonial centers

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Mesoamerica - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- agriculture (corn based)


- domestication of animals (turkeys, dogs, local wild animals)

- cultural area

- people share religious ideas

- spiritual animal being (half human, half jaguar)

- deity feathered serpent

- Zippytotech (two hands, wears the skin of sacrifice victims)

,- developed writing systems and numeral systems (Mayan writing system

and glyphs)

- discovered the concept of zero


Mesoamerica and North America architectural concepts - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-

ceremonial center or ceremonial core to settlement

- orientation to the celestial bodies

- ritual paths, causeways or alignments which connect/organize the

ceremonial center

- open plaza bounded by pyramid temple platforms

- pyramid temple structures; superimposition of multiple construction levels

- ball courts


260 Day Ritual Calendar - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- calendar wheel


- 20 day names paired with 13 day numbers

- ritual cycle in relation to the sun

- every 52 years you'll have the same day, same number, and same long

day designation

- cyclical time (repetitive)

,- ran out on August 11, 2012 (people thought the world was going to end)


Human Sacrifice - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- chanting


- blood coming from hands

- "replenish the earth"

- needed to keep the cycles of the seasons going and fertility going

- Aztecs would launch wars specifically to capture and kill people


I - Shaped Ball Courts - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- several ways to play this game


- heavy latex ball (latex comes from the jungle)

- central field

- steps (smooth plaster)

- two teams on either side

- people could spectate

- ball players are elaborately dressed

- moving the ball had to do with moving the celestial bodies


Olmec - La Venta - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- oldest settlement


- not a lot of living spaces

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, - ritual platforms

- aligned together (connected to the ritual calendar)

- open spaces for gathering

- one big platform structure made out of mudbrick

- 100 ft tall man made mountain (would've been a multi step structure

leading to a temple at the top)

- along the path were altars used for ritual activity (face of a jaguar)

- burials along the axis (jaquar masks)

- cluster of sculptures (purposefully deformed people's heads)


Teotihuacan - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- urban center


- 125,000 people lived here

- 80%-90% lived in urban center

- Mexico city today

- apartment complexes

- ritual structures (center of the city)

- planned city

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