America Before Columbus Trivia Quiz
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This ancient civilization built the famous cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde in present-day Colorado.
Difficulty: Easy- Ancestral Puebloans
- Aztecs
- Incas
- Olmecs
This large pueblo complex in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, contained over 600 rooms and was a major ceremonial center for the Ancestral Puebloans.
Difficulty: Medium- Cliff Palace
- Pueblo Bonito
- Aztec Ruins
- Bandelier
This Maya astronomical table in the Dresden Codex tracks the 584-day synodic cycle of a celestial body associated with warfare and sacrifice.
Difficulty: Hard- Mars table
- Eclipse table
- Venus table
- Moon table
This crop, domesticated in Mesoamerica around 9,000 years ago, became the staple food for most indigenous American civilizations.
Difficulty: Easy- Wheat
- Maize (corn)
- Rice
- Barley
This Mayan city-state, located in present-day Guatemala, was one of the largest and most powerful Maya centers during the Classic period.
Difficulty: Medium- Copán
- Palenque
- Uxmal
- Tikal
This Inca practice involved relocating entire populations to newly conquered territories to ensure loyalty and spread Quechua language and customs.
Difficulty: Hard- Yanakuna
- Curaca system
- Ceque system
- Mitimaes
This massive earthen mound near present-day St. Louis was the center of the largest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico.
Difficulty: Easy- Serpent Mound
- Poverty Point
- Cahokia Mounds
- Etowah Mounds
This Inca ruler dramatically expanded the empire, transforming it from a regional kingdom into the largest state in pre-Columbian America.
Difficulty: Medium- Huayna Capac
- Pachacuti
- Atahualpa
- Tupac Inca Yupanqui
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