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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Chiefdoms

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Ice Age

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Which of these is NOT a true statement about the Hopewell?


A) Their culture spread from the Ohio Valley to the Illinois River valley.
B) Their religious influence extended to places as far away as New York and Florida.
C) They traded only with local societies and groups.
D) Their centers contained two or three dozen mounds.
E) Elites were buried with sacred substances such as pearls, mica or quartz.

F) B) and E)
G) C) and D)

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Eastern Woodlands

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Which of the following is not true about Native American religious beliefs at the point of the initial European contacts?


A) They prayed to the spirits of the animals that they were about to kill for food.
B) They tried to conciliate the spiritual forces in the world.
C) They depended on medicine men and women to understand the unseen.
D) The believed that all nature was alive, pulsating with a spiritual power.
E) They believed that God had given humanity domination over nature.

F) B) and E)
G) A) and C)

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Mississippian culture

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Maya

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According to archaeologists, when did the first humans likely arrive in America?


A) 41,000 B.C.
B) 13,000 B.C.
C) 2,500 B.C.
D) 6,000 B.C.
E) 75,000 B.C.

F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

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Which of the following generalizations about Native American cultures is true?


A) Almost all the societies were the same in terms of political and social structure, religious beliefs, and basic contributions.
B) No society had much in common with any other society.
C) Because of their relationship to the environment, native Americans had evolved into careful conservationists.
D) Only native cultures in the Eastern Woodlands developed the bow and arrow and used ceramic pottery.
E) Most Native American cultures were characterized by a kinship reciprocity and communal ownership of resources.

F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Teotihuacán

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Which statement concerning warfare in most Native American societies is least accurate?


A) Groups warred for control over scarce resources.
B) Wars enabled Native American groups to seek captives.
C) Native Americans often battled for control of land.
D) Warfare was extensive and constant.
E) Warfare was conducted more as a pastime than as a way of conquering and subduing enemies.

F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

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Prior to European contacts, Native Americans were not exclusively nomadic, nor did they live exclusively in small villages. Many lived in major cities. Describe such cities, using Cahokia as an example.

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Inca Empire

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Which family pattern was most common across North American Indian tribes?


A) Patriarchal family
B) None of these choices
C) Extended family
D) Nuclear family
E) Matriarchal family

F) B) and D)
G) A) and C)

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Which of the following is not one of the theories about how America was originally settled?


A) Europeans sailed across the Atlantic in leather boats during the pre-Christian era.
B) Siberian hunters crossed from Asia to North American during the last ice age.
C) Humans arrived by boat and followed the coast southward from Alaska.
D) Humans arrived in multiple migrations
E) Hunters from Asia dispersed themselves over much of North America.

F) All of the above
G) B) and E)

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Choose three North American cultures flourishing before the arrival of Europeans, and discuss the major contributions and innovations of each.

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1. The Maya Civilization: The Maya civil...

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Norse expansionists

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Monte Verde

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Which of the following statements accurately reflects one aspect of the principle of reciprocity?


A) Based on give-and-take, it helped maintain equilibrium and interdependence between individuals of unequal power and prestige.
B) None of these choices
C) All of these choices
D) To retain control, human beings had to change nature to suit their purposes.
E) All people of an area had to vote before decisions could be made or treaties signed.

F) B) and D)
G) A) and E)

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Maize

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Maize, commonly known in many English-sp...

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