Author Question: One god in the Aztec pantheon was Quetzalcoatl, who played an important role in the survival of this ... (Read 90 times)

sheilaspns · **on:** Jun 23, 2018

One god in the Aztec pantheon was Quetzalcoatl, who played an important role in the survival of this culture by:

A. building the city of Teotihuacn.
B. communicating to leaders through animal spirits.
C. facilitating the domestication of animals.
D. bringing rain and water through windstorms.
E. protecting the Aztec people from other, less-friendly gods.

Question 2

The term pre-Columbian is currently questioned as a description of cultures in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus because:

A. recent historical discoveries indicate that Columbus was never in the new world.
B. some of the cultures referred to by this term continued after Columbus's arrival.
C. the cultures did not think of themselves as coming before anything.
D. the actual time of the arrival of Columbus is disputed.
E. other descendants of the cultures prefer to be identified by the names of other conquerors.

jomama · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

D
Rain, water, and the wind that brought them were essential to the agricultural societies of Mesoamerica.

Answer to Question 2

C
The term acknowledges that the arrival of Europeans changed everything, and that the
civilizations of the Americas were interrupted as decisively as if a meteor had hit them.