Use the Following to Answer Questions

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Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions :
-Teotihuacan

• A)The term used to designate the area spanning present-day central Mexico to Nicaragua.
• B)An intricate system of knotted and colored strings used by early Andean cultures to store information such as census and tax records.
• C)Boiling maize in a solution of water and mineral lime to break down compounds in the kernels, increasing their nutritional value.
• D)The earliest advanced Mesoamerican civilization.
• E)A Native American culture that thrived along Peru's northern coast between 100 and 800 C.E.
• F)The name of the dynasty of rulers who built the largest and last indigenous empire across the Andes.
• G)The official language of the Incas, it is still spoken by most Peruvians today.
• H)A highly developed Mesoamerican culture centered in the Yucatán peninsula of Mexico. This culture created the most intricate writing system in the Western Hemisphere.
• I)The monumental city-state that dominated trade in classical era Mesoamerica.
• J)The language of the Aztecs, which they inherited from the Toltecs.
• K)The dominant ethnic group of what is now Mexico, who created an empire based on war and religion that reached its height in the fifteenth century.
• L)A large and prosperous Aztec city that was built starting in 1325. The Spanish admired it when they entered in 1519.

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