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Chapter 5 Quiz
Origins Apart: The Americas and Oceania, 16,000–600 BCE
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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 the wheel and 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 six distinct geographical regions, including all of the below
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The Central American mainland and the Caribbean islands.
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The Andes Mountain region
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The Guyana Shield
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The Mountain West
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The impact of the tides and flows of the Pacific on the American climate includes all of the following
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The warm waters of the Western Pacific move northeastward past Japan toward Alaska.
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They have a moderating effect on the weather, particularly along the coasts of Alaska to California.
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The region from the coast of Alaska to California contain important fish and marine mammal habitats
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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:
Lithic finds at about three dozen sites in North and South America
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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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The most probable reason for the disappearance of the Clovis style spear points from North America was:
The eruption of volcanoes along the Pacific coast of California caused climate change and human migration southward
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The arrival of new immigrants, called Natufians, from Alaska and Canada.
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The onset of the Younger Dryas, an 800-year cold spell in the northern hemisphere
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The onset of a five-hundred-year drought which eliminated all large game and the need for spear points
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All of the following observations about religious or supernatural beliefs and activities of sedentary foragers apply
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They began burying their dead in areas that developed into territorial centers.
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Many of the communities' dead were buried with gifts to help them in life after death.
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Shamans-led ceremonies usually took place in the open desert
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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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Occurred around the same time as potatoes, beans, and cotton were domesticated in Peru.
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Took more than 12,000 years, according to carbon-dating techniques of
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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
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Squash
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Potatoes
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Oats
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Avocado
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The only animal in pre-Columbian America that could be reasonably used as a pack animal was the:
Llama
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Alpaca
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Turkey
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Horse
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Between 3000 and 2000 BCE, villages in the lowlands along the Andes coast of Peru did all of the following
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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 urban centers was comprised of:
Farmers
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Merchants
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Artisans
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Priests
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Quipú
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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 ropesfor record-keeping.
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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 wasdependent 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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Like Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China, Olmec agriculture benefitted from:
The flooding of rivers that deposited silt during the rainy season.
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High yielding rice and wheat to sustain larger urban populations
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Large deserts that protected the society as it developed.
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Cattle and horses that could be used for agriculture and transport.
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At San Lorenzo, thousands of laborers were engaged in performing all the tasks below
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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.
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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
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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 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 large funeral mounds dated to around 500 BCE
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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
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They formed agricultural settlements as early as 500 BCE.
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They originated from the Orinoco River region.
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Artisans made ceramics which suggest 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
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It was named for a site on the island of New Caledonia.
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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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The society cultivated root crops which helped in supplying long voyages.
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Using linguistic analysis, the origins of the people who populated Oceania was from:
South America
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Taiwan
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Siberia
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Australia
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All of the following are commonalities shared by societies in the Americas, Oceania, Eurasia, and Africa
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Growth and sophistication of social structures.
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Political centralization and resistance to it.
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The development of cities and monumental structures.
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Development of agriculture and animal domestication.
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According to the figure above, where were most of the animals domesticated before 10,000 years ago?
Africa
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Asia
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North America
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South America
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According to the map above, Taiwan and the Indonesian-Philippine archipelagos were the likely origins of the people of Oceania. How have scholars been able to determine this?
Through the use of linguistic analysis.
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Through the analysis of skeletal remains.
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Through the voyage sagas they wrote down.
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Through the interpretation of archeological sites.
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About when did the people who fashioned the sculptures above arrive on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)?
600 CE
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800 CE
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1200 CE
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700 CE
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