(1) The "Ice-Free Corridor" through Canada of 14,000 YBP is thought to be the only way humans could have gotten to Virginia. (2) In hunter/gatherer societies, men provided about 80% of the food through hunting, while women provided about 20% of the food through gathering. (3) Dugout canoes were so easy to make that Powhatan tribesmen were casual about how they treated them and weren't bothered when the English began targeting them for destruction.
Answer true or false for each question
(1) The "Ice-Free Corridor" through Canada of 14,000 YBP is thought to be the only way humans could have gotten to Virginia.
(2) In hunter/gatherer societies, men provided about 80% of the food through hunting, while women provided about 20% of the food through gathering.
(3) Dugout canoes were so easy to make that Powhatan tribesmen were casual about how they treated them and weren't bothered when the English began targeting them for destruction.
(4) Jamestown was settled during an unusually cold and dry period in the climatic history of Virginia.
(5) Even though it turned out to be a death trap, the original settlers chose Jamestown Island as the site for their fort because it conformed to the directives given them by the Virginia Company of London.
(6) The vast majority of Africans transported to the New World in the Atlantic slave trade went to Brazil and the Caribbean sugar islands rather than British North America.
(7) We know for a fact that the Africans who were brought to Point Comfort in the White Lion in 1619 were and remained slaves.
(8) Because Africans came into Virginia and the South as slaves, they were incapable of transferring any vestige of African culture to the New World.
(9) Hogsheads of tobacco always remained small so that one person could handle, roll, and load them onto a ship.
(10) Virginia and Maryland have shared the Potomac River equally since the founding of Maryland in 1632.
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