1. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 1: Mapping America

**Quiz for Document 1.4: Map of Cuauhtinchan (1550)**

Quiz for Document 1.4: Map of Cuauhtinchan (1550)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. What does the map of Cuauhtinchan reveal about the culture who created it?

It contained no trails, roads, or waterways.

It placed a high value on history.

It had only primitive mapmaking skills.

Its people resided primarily in caves.

2. What geographical area does the Cuauhtinchan map represent?

The Puebla valley in present-day Mexico

The Inca territory in present-day Peru

The island Columbus named Hispaniola

The Aztec city of Tenochtitlán

3. According to the map of Cuauhtinchan, what was one of the major features of its society’s past?

The domestication of animals

Its conversion to Catholicism

Ritual mound building

War and violence

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