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Return to The Past in Perspective: An Introduction to Human Prehistory 8e Student Resources
Chapter 14 Student Quiz
An Explosion of Complexity: North America
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Snaketown covers more than one square mile and had a well-developed _____________; it was the largest village of the _______.
network of roads; Ancestral Puebloan culture
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irrigation network; Hohokam
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sewer system; Mississippians
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system of urban planning; Mogollon
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Documentation of the Natchez tribe during the eighteenth century provides historical analogies in understanding which culture?
Kwakiutl
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Mogollon
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Adena
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Mississippian
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Hohokam villages consisted of multiple sets of separate clusters of 2 to 10 residential structures known as __________________.
neighborhoods
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family farmsteads
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courtyard groups
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kiva clusters
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DNA analysis of skeletal remains found in Room 33 at Pueblo Bonito provides evidence of:
unrelated individuals who were descendants of the Aztec elite.
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an egalitarian kin group buried with few grave goods.
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a ruling family or matrilineage.
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an elite family in which leadership passed from fathers to sons.
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Ancestral Puebloan culture in Chaco Canyon was comprised of:
around a dozen Great Houses.
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more than 500 towns and villages with monumental architecture.
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two Great Houses and at least 30 outlying farmsteads.
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one large Puebloan city with more than 300 outlying villages.
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The cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde in southwestern Colorado are associated with which culture?
Mogollon
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Sinagua
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Ancestral Puebloan
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Hohokam
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The culture sometimes known as the temple mound builders based their subsistence primarily on ________________.
affluent foraging.
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hunting, fishing, and gathering.
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maize and squash agriculture.
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gardens in which they cultivated maize, beans, and potatoes.
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The social and political complexity of the Ancestral Puebloans rapidly increased soon after ________, as seen in the construction of ______________.
1500 BC; stepped pyramids and multi-room pueblos
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A.D. 400; a monumental temples and elite residences
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A.D. 1000; monumental residential structures
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A.D. 1400; earthen platforms and a vast network of roads
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The largest, most populous city in pre-Columbian North America is found at _______.
Mound City
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Grasshopper Pueblo
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Casa Grande
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Cahokia
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Which culture is associated with the Middle Woodland period throughout the North American Midwest?
Adena
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Kwakiutl
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Hopewell
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Mogollon
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Around ________ years ago, Ancestral Puebloans developed a subsistence system based on maize agriculture, as well as traditional foraging.
500
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1,000
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2,000
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4,000
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The earthwork at ___________, known to archaeologists as _____________ contained copper tubes, a large concentration of mica, more than 700 stone projectile points, thousands of shell beads, and the burials of more than 270 people, including the remains of 53 females who had been sacrificed, and an adult male interred on a platform with 20,000 marine shells in the shape of a bird.
Snaketown; Temple of the Serpent
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Pueblo Bonito; Temple 53
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Cahokia; Mound 72
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Moundville; Mound B
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Which of the following people established permanent, sedentary residences in the Southwest?
Adena
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Kwakiutl
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Hopewell
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Mogollon
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Which culture is associated with the Early Woodland period in the Ohio River valley?
Adena
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Kwakiutl
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Hopewell
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Mogollon
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Which of the following means "ancient enemies" in Navajo and has now been replaced with the term "Ancestral Puebloan"?
Adena
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Hohokam
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Anasazi
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Mogollon
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Mississippian platform mounds, such as Monk's mound, served as:
lookout towers for fires and enemies
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meeting grounds for egalitarian tribes
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monuments for communal burial of the dead
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foundations for important buildings
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Which of the following was
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sunflower
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squash
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maize
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knotweed
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Which culture produced evidence for the greatest complexity in terms of wealth, status, and population densities?
Adena
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Mogollon
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Hopewell
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Mississippian
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Evidence from northwest coast societies indicates __________ is ultimately needed for the development of social complexity.
agriculture
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irrigation
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military defense
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surplus food
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Hopewell culture was characterized by:
formal government ruled by royal dynasties
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monumental earthworks
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large urban centers
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all of the above
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The Hohokam appear to have borrowed which practice from Mesoamerica?
the consumption of maize beer
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human sacrifice and
tzompantli
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playing ritual ball games
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the construction of stepped pyramids and temples
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The largest city in pre-Columbian North America had _______ and at its peak, had a population of approximately _________.
120 earthen mounds; 10,000
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107 burial mounds; 500,000
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three central pyramids; 2,000
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a central plaza enclosed by an adobe wall; 250,000
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The largest of the Great Houses in Chaco Canyon is called _______; it consisted of five stories and around ____________ rooms.
Pueblo Bonito; 800
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Mesa Verde; 120
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Casa Grande; 330
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Snaketown; 1,250
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Kivas were ___________ where people ___________.
pit-houses; lived in large family groups
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storage facilities; produced and stored maize beer
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round structures; met and engaged in community rituals
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low platforms; practiced human sacrifice
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Why did the Mogollon leave their homeland?
drought
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military conquest
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epidemic disease
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all of the above
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The expedition of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto encountered the direct descendants of which people?
Mississippian
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Adena
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Ancestral Puebloan
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Mogollon
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The native peoples of the northwest coast of North America can be best described as:
maize agriculturalists.
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simple hunter gatherers.
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affluent foragers.
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Ancestral Puebloans.
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What may have caused the abandonment of Mesa Verde?
environmental degradation
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drought
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shortages of resources
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all of the above
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Native Northwest Coast societies redistributed wealth in a celebration known as a:
potlatch
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kiva feast
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totem gathering
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courtyard ritual
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According to Timothy Pauketat, the evidence for social stratification and political power at Cahokia suggests:
the limitations of fundamentally egalitarian societies.
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a powerful Mississippian chiefdom had developed by A.D. 1300.
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conditions associated with the rise of early states.
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Mississippian culture became more complex based on affluent foraging.
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