Chapter 1 Key Points Quiz

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Chapter 1 Key Points Quiz 1. The first inhabitants of the Western hemisphere came from? - Siberia 2. When ecosystems in North America changed, early human inhabitants? - Adapted to their new environment 3. By the end of the fifteenth century, which of the following peoples ruled over a vast empire from their capital tenochtitlan? - The Aztec 4. The most impressive achievement of the Ancestral Puebloan peoples was? - Their masonry buildings 5. The hub of the mississippian culture’s trading network was? - At Cahokia 6. The peoples of the Subarctic? - Survived by fishing and hunting 7. According to the map, settlements in North Americas were most prominent in which region of the continents? - South 8. Which of the following early peoples of North America might have more ancestry in common with each other, if the possible migration routes shown on the map are accurate? - Mongolian and Mayan peoples 9. In what key way, based on a reading of the map, did Maya civilization differ from Mississippian or Ancestral Puebloan cultures? - They had more settled sites and a denser population 10. What is unique about the Mississippian sites compared to the sites of other cultures on the map? - A higher percentage were located directly on a river 11. Research that followed Anna Sofaer’s discovery has discovered what about the Anasazi in Chaco Canyon? - Structures throughout the canyon are aligned to solar and lunar event

12. The calendar Anna Sofaer discovered can do all of the following except? - Predict solar eclipses 13. Anna Sofaer’s discovery demonstrated that Ancestral Puebloan peoples were capable of - Predicting the summer and winter equinoxes 14. How does the calendar Anna Sofaer discovered mark the summer solstice? - A single shaft of light bisects the pattern that is carved into the rock 15. Which of the following is an innovation of early inhabitants of the Americas that has proven to be of long-term importance to humans? - The manipulation of certain plants 16. What crop cultivated by Native AMericans is most central to American diets today? - Corns 17. What Native Americans crop is credited with aveying famine in some European countries? - Potatoes 18. How was the north-south orientation of the Americas as a hindrance to the development of the cultures there? - Differences in the environments in which early inhabitants lived meant that people in each individual region had to perfect crops for their environments alone 19. What effect did the lack of domesticated animals have on Native American populations? - They had little or no immunity to major diseases that largely originated from domesticated animals 20. By the 14th century, a crisis in the SOuthwest forced people to move. Archaeological evidence suggests that the? - Transition caused a lot of suffering 21. What was the distinctive feature of the Iroquois and Wendat (Huron) architecture? - The longhouse 22. How did surviving communities respond to the rapid decline of vast civilizations in the Southwest and elsewhere in the centuries leading up to contact with Europeans? - They migrated to new locations and attempted to rebuild trading cities, farms, homes, and defenses

23. Which of the following is not one of the three great southeastern native confederacies? - Cherokee 24. On the eve of contact, what Native American group practiced a matrilineal form of kinship? - Natchez 25. In what regions of North America was agriculture the most common? - Southern and Coastal 26. In which region were the changes in the centuries immediately before European contact most traumatic? - Southwest 27. Northern societies tended not to rely predominantly on which of the following methods of food production? - Agriculture

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