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What was an achievement of the Maya?
a) developed calendar and improved medicine
b) improved medicine and studied stars
c) studied stars and developed calendar
d) developed calendar and alphabet

The fastest-growing industrial centers in Mexico lie where?
a) Central America border
b) U.S. border
c) Mexican Plateau
d) Gulf of Mexico

Priests taught Indians Spanish and Catholicism at church outposts known as....
a) missions
b) camps
c) websites
d) training

Where did the Olmec live?
a) Northern plain of Mexico
b) Southern coast Gulf of Mexico
c) Northern coast Gulf of Mexico
d) Southern plain of Mexico

Who conquered the Aztecs?
a) Miguel Hidalgo
b) Vicente Fox
c) Hernan Cortes
d) Benito Juarez

What is the vegetation like in northern Mexico?
a) desert plants and wet highlands
b) wet highlands and snowcapped volcanoes
c) dry grasslands and desert plants
d) dry grasslands and wet highlands

What part of Mexico are Indian languages and traditional ways of life most common?
a) northern
b) eastern
c) western
d) southern

Mexico's coastal resorts and Aztec and Maya monuments attract many.....
a) tourists
b) insects
c) criminals
d) terrorists

Most Mexicans speak Spanish because of.....
a) heritage
b) Spanish influence in colonial times
c) culture
d) Aztec influence in colonial times

What is the climate like in Mexico's mountain valleys?
a) hot
b) humid
c) dry
d) mild

Where is the Mexican Plateau located?
a) southern part
b) between two mountain ranges
c) between two lakes
d) near Central America

Whom did the Spanish monarch grant haciendas?
a) mestizos
b) maquiladoras
c) people of Spanish Ancestry
d) people of German Ancestry

When did the Maya civilization collapse?
a) Before 400
b) Before 600
c) After 300
d) After 900

In 1521 Hernan Cortes claimed the land in Mexico for:
a) Turkey
b) Puerto Rico
c) Jamaica
d) Spain

What are two examples of southern Mexico's cash crops that grown in a warm, humid-climate?
a) cotton and sugar cane
b) coffee and cotton
c) sugar cane and coffee
d) cotton and pulp

What do farmers in Mexico use to clear land for planting?
a) cultivating
b) plowing
c) slash and burn agriculture
d) irrigation

What was the most valuable resources before oil was discovered?
a) forests
b) minerals
c) coffee
d) coal

What makes the smog worse in Mexico City?
a) Mountains
b) Plateaus
c) Valleys
d) Ocean

What are the two Mexico Peninsula's
a) Baja California and Bay of Campeche
b) Yucatan Peninsula and Bay of Campeche
c) Yucatan Peninsula and Baja California
d) Rio Grande and Bay of Campeche

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