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Chapter 05 Self-Assessment
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Which chronological order below is correct?
Olmec city at San Lorenzo; Chavin de Huántar city in Andes; First known American city at Caral-Supé in Peru; Olmec city at La Venta
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Olmec city at San Lorenzo; Chavin de Huántar city in Andes; Olmec city at La Venta; First known American city at Caral-Supé in Peru
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Olmec city at San Lorenzo; First known American city at Caral-Supé in Peru; Chavin de Huántar city in Andes; Olmec city at La Venta
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First known American city at Caral-Supé in Peru; Olmec city at San Lorenzo; Chavin de Huántar city in Andes; Olmec city at La Venta
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The early development of American societies parallels those in Eurasia and Africa, except in respect to:
The development of urban centers for religious and trade activities.
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The use of two-wheel horse-drawn chariots and sophisticated plows.
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Access to agricultural sources of surplus food and means of accumulating stores.
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The ability to design and engineer massive buildings, such as pyramids.
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The most prominent geographical feature of the Americas is:
A contiguous spine of mountain ranges extending along the entire western coast from the Rocky Mountains in the north to the Andes in the south.
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A very even terrain extending from northern Canada to the tip of Chile and Argentina
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Soil conditions and climate conditions conducive to growing similar crops from Canada to Argentina.
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Generally more moderate weather conditions in southern Canada than in northern Chile.
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Mesoamerica and South America are comprised of four distinct geographical regions, including all of the below EXCEPT:
The Central American mainland and the Caribbean islands.
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The Andes Mountain region
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The Guyana Shield and Amazon River basin.
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The Chihuahua rainforest just below the Rio Grande.
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The impact of the tides and flows of the Pacific on the American climate includes all of the following EXCEPT:
The warm waters of the Western Pacific move toward the Aleutian Islands and down the American coast.
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They have a moderating effect on the weather, particularly from southern Alaska to northern California.
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The region from the coast of southern Alaska to northern California contains much of the world's temperate rain forests.
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From California to Chile, the currents are generally warmer than the surrounding Ocean, driving fish and other marine animals away during most of the year.
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One of the ways many scientists track and establish dates for the migration patterns of early Americans is through:
Hunting technology, particularly the design of spears and arrowheads.
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The musical instruments, such as flutes, left at butchering sites.
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Archeological remains showing a strong preference for agriculture over foraging.
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The presence of a specific type of technology, called Clovis points, in both northern Eurasia and North America.
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Early American adaptation to changing conditions included all of the below EXCEPT:
Changing their hunting patterns after the expansion of forests, together with human hunting expertise, diminished the population of large game.
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Beginning to hunt the difficult prey, such as small mammals and reptiles, even though they represented more work for less gain.
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Domesticating large mammals to provide meat and milk products to assure adequate nutrition for their groups.
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Developing new technology or perfecting existing techniques, such as making smaller spears, fishhooks, awls, and needles in order to exploit seafood as well as smaller animals.
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All of the following observations about religious or supernatural beliefs and activities apply EXCEPT:
Foragers began burying their dead in areas that developed into territorial centers.
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Many of the communities' dead were buried with gifts of orange ochre.
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Foraging bands had a very simple culture, with an unsophisticated understanding of the world.
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Leaders of foraging bands were often shamans, people seeming to have spiritual powers.
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The development and cultivation of corn:
Apparently took place in South America, in the vicinity of Brazil.
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Seems to have been the result of cross-breeding more than one species of plant.
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Took more than 12,000 years, according to carbon-dating techniques of teosinte and modern corn.
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Has been proven, by plant geneticist Mary Eubanks, to have taken many generations of experimentation to create a nutritious grain.
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Diffusion of corn as a food for both animals and humans:
Occurred very slowly because there was little trade or contact within the Americas.
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Has permanently altered global agricultural patterns over the past 300 years.
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Has been extensive, but outside the Americas, it is primarily a trade item because it requires very specific soils and climate.
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Is of limited economic value because other, more easily grown substances work as well and are less expensive.
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Basic food crops in Mesoamerica and the Andes include all EXCEPT:
Squash
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Potatoes
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Oats
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Avocado
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Animals in the Americas suitable for domestication included all EXCEPT:
Llamas
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Alpacas
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Turkeys
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Horses
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Between 3000 and 2000 BCE, villages in the lowlands along the Andes coast of Peru did all of the following EXCEPT:
Built rafts to allow them to fish farther from shore.
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Increased crop yields through irrigation.
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Began developing a stratified society.
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Started making bronze plows and cooking utensils.
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The largest social class in Andean society was comprised of:
Farmers
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Merchants
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Artisans
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Priests
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Quipú was:
A writing system similar to cuneiform.
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A very short-lived means of record keeping.
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A system of knotted ropes conveying information.
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The most prevalent means of performing human sacrifices in South America.
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Excavations of Chavín, a small city in the Andean highlands, indicate that:
The population of the city consisted primarily of farmers and agricultural workers.
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The population of the city, primarily priests, rulers, and craftspeople, were dependent for food upon farmers and herders in the outlying hamlets.
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Contained underground worship centers, but have no indication of sacrifice, whether human or animal.
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By 400 BCE, the city had surpassed its usefulness and the population began to dwindle.
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All of the following apply to the Olmecs at San Lorenzo EXCEPT:
They built the first important Mesoamerican center around 6000 BCE, before the major centers of Egypt were established.
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In order to provide sufficient food, farmers cleared dense tropical rainforests to create arable fields.
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We are not certain what they called themselves; the name "Olmec," meaning rubber people, was given to them by the Aztecs.
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The fields were near riverbanks, where silt deposited by floods created rich soil, resulting in a high yield, about twice that in the villages of the Mexican valleys.
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At San Lorenzo, thousands of laborers were engaged in performing all the tasks below EXCEPT:
Constructing a plateau and terraced platforms.
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Quarrying huge blocks of basalt from a mountain range 70 miles away.
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Carrying beams from which basalt blocks weighing about 18 tons were hung on slings.
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Constructing wide moats around fields to drain water and discourage invasions.
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All of the statements below are true of the Inuit EXCEPT:
They migrated from Siberia to the northern tundra of North America about 10,000 BCE.
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They were skilled at hunting large sea mammals.
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They lived in pit houses, covered by walrus skin under sod.
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On winter hunts they built temporary snow houses from ice blocks.
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The Marajó, the most closely investigated of the early Amazonian cultures,:
Inhabited a large island in the mouth of the Madera River.
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Reached its height about 3000 BCE
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Built funeral mounds about 30 feet high and 750 feet long.
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Show little sign of an existing social hierarchy.
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All of the following is true about early settlers in the rainforests of the Caribbean islands EXCEPT:
They formed agricultural settlements as early as 500 BCE.
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They built villages and terraces to grow manioc.
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Artisans made ceramics in the shapes of animals, hinting at a shamanic religion
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They generally avoided contact with the mainland, perhaps from fear of invasion.
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All of the following is true of the Lapita cultural complex EXCEPT:
It was a system connecting the inhabitants of thousands of islands from Borneo to Melanesia.
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The most highly demanded trade item in the complex was metal from which weapons and fish hooks could be manufactured.
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The culture developed great sophistication in navigation and the technology involved in watercraft building.
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Members of the culture had settled almost all of the habitable islands of the Pacific by the time they came into contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century.
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We suspect all of the following about the origins of the Polynesians EXCEPT:
All settlers in Polynesia spoke a language belonging to the Austronesian family.
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It appears that the ancestors of the Pacific Islanders originated in northwest China.
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The Polynesians are generally a genetically homogenous group, suggesting no outside influences.
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The ultimate Polynesian origin may have been in inland Taiwan.
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All of the following are commonalities shared by societies in the Americas, Oceania, Eurasia, and Africa EXCEPT:
Growth and sophistication of social structures.
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Political centralization and resistance to it.
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The development of cities, once there was a sufficiently high population.
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Monumental architecture for religious and political purposes.
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