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What American culture had a cosmic calendar that ended in the year 2012 A.D. because they believed that was when the Earth would end?
The Mayans
The Incas
The Aztecs
The Inuits
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Manco Capac, a divine being who was raised by the gods out of Lake Titicaca, was believed to be the mythological founder of what American culture?
The Mayan Empire
The Aztec Empire
The Iroquois Confederacy
The Incan Empire
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Tezcatlipoca, the Smoking Mirror God, was a devious Aztec deity of what concept?
Conflict
Rain
Cornbread
Stairs
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What nation found on the island of Hispaniola is the origin place of many voodoo traditions including the concept of zombies?
The Bahamas
St. Lucia
Cuba
Haiti
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Mayan folktales relate the story of a legendary hero named after a certain vegetable who outwitted gods and slayed monsters. What vegetable was this hero name for?
Spinach
Beets
Squash
Corn
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What Incan word refers to religious artifacts that are important to their faith?
Parka
Wak'a
Chichen Itza
Inti
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The Mayans believed that a pair of divine beings fashioned humankind. What types of animals were these beings who forged humans?
Howler monkeys
White-tailed deer
Duck-billed platypuses
Giraffes
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What was the name of the Incan sun god?
Tezuko
Huaculpa
Inti
Calasmos
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The Inuits believed that the souls of the dead formed what natural phenomenon in the northern skies?
The annual lengthening of night
Lunar eclipses
Aurora borealis
Cirrus clouds
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The Cherokee believed that what bug formed the continents by bringing mud up from the ocean floor?
An earthworm
A ladybug
A water beetle
A diving bell spider
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What unorthodox practice did the Aztecs perform to keep the sun moving through the sky?
Human sacrifice
Creating bead pictures of baby cows
Nonstop dancing by priests around a bonfire
Eating leeches every morning and evening
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The Fort Ancient Native Americans constructed a massive burial mound in Ohio that depicts what animal eating an egg in the hope that such a shape would defend the bodies interred within its soil?
A horse
A rat
An owl
A snake
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Multiple Native American tribes in North America believed in the existence of what giant skunk monster who would kill people by spraying noxious gas on them?
Odot
Aniwye
Persha
Wendigo
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What was the name of the ancient capital of the Incas that was shaped like a puma in an attempt to invoke the animal's ferocious spirit?
Cusco
Ho
El Dorado
Parsal
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What Haitian voodoo god of death is often depicted as a man wearing a top hat with cotton plugs in his nostrils?
Baron Samedi
Duke of Earl
Prince Rain
King Nothing
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What American culture has a founding myth claiming that they built their capital of Tenochtitlan on a spot where they found an eagle eating a snake atop a cactus?
The Comanche
The Aztecs
The Incas
The Mayans
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What Polynesian demigod who wielded a giant hook was killed by being crushed between a goddess's thighs?
Gideon
Ose
Pele
Maui
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Many Native American tribes from North America believed in what supreme religious being who ruled over creation and all other divine forces in the world?
Chronos
Moon
The Great Spirit
Wovoka
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What was the name of the Mayan bat god of death?
Ose
Huktapul
Dagon
Camazotz
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Viracocha was the supreme creator deity of what American culture?
The Mayan Empire
The Incan Empire
The Aztec Empire
The Iroquois Confederacy
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Multiple Black Hills Native American tribes shared a legend called The Great Race where human beings defeated what species of animal in a contest of speed to become the world's dominant species?
Bald eagles
Bumblebees
Badgers
Buffalo
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What was the name of the Hawaiian lava goddess who threw lava on her fiancée because he kissed another woman?
Savarin
Mishti
Pele
Laekolana
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Hunahpu and Xbalanque were a pair of Mayan heroes who fought monsters together. How were these two mythological heroes related to each other?
They were twins
They were alternate personalities of the same man.
They were father and son.
They were uncle and nephew.
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What hunter deity was the god of bears in the Inuit culture?
Nanuk
Nabbit
Gothor
Howe
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The Mayans believed that the entire world had been destroyed by what animals in a previous age?
Hummingbirds
Rats
Jaguars
Mosquitoes
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Tying in with the Mayan fear of jaguars, what was the name of their jaguar god who oversaw the underworld?
Bastet
Keighoh
Baalham
Minuraus
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What famous winged serpent deity of Aztec mythology was considered the god of wisdom and the sky?
Quetzalcoatl
Suzebanji
Tutugavarr
Pitinukul
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Lakota myth tells of what monstrous serpent woman who terrorized the Great Plains until a brave hero cut her open from the inside and freed all of her victims?
Hua Po
Unchegila
Verdon
Biollante
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What is the name of this famous Mayan pyramid that was believed to have been used for ceremonial purposes?
Firan
Peloponnese
Tez Takal
Chichen Itza
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Many Native American cultures revered what canine creature as a trickster spirit that was capable of deceiving all sorts of people with its cunning?
Coyote
Dingo
Wolf
Beast
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