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The Mogollon culture was marked by its
pit houses.
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15 The Iroquoian tribes of Pennsylvania and upstate New York lived in
permanent settlements.
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Unlike the inland and northern tribes such as the Abenaki, Penobscot, and Chippewa the Algonquian tribes who lived along the Atlantic coast
grew crops.
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Beginning around AD 1000, the Anasazi moved from pit houses on mesa tops to
multistory cliff dwellings.
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Where did permanent agricultural settlements first emerge in North America?
The Southwest
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What major crisis did Paleo-Indians confront approximately 11,000 years ago? altered almost every aspect of their day-to-day existence
Big-game animals became extinct
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The Athapascan tribes of the Southwest were known for
preying on Pueblo Indians.
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What caused the disappearance of the Anasazi culture?
Drought
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The migrations of Siberian hunters across Beringia and into the Western Hemisphere
did not dramatically change the Siberians lifestyle.
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The introduction of corn encouraged Southwestern hunter-gatherers to
restrict their migratory habits.
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The empire of the Mexica had its origins in c. AD 1325, when Mexicans settled near Lake Texcoco and
worked as mercenaries for other tribes.
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What was the Native American population of North America around the time of Columbus s arrival?
4 million
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Most archaeologists believe that Paleo-Indians migrated into North America by traveling along
the eastern side of the Canadian Rockies.
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What did the Mexica do to prove their bravery as warriors?
Capture prisoners
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What was the weakness of the Mexica empire?
Discontent among subject peoples
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Archaic peoples differed from their Paleo Indian ancestors in that they
used stone tools to prepare food from plants.
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Which factor limits historians work on ancient America?
A lack of written records
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Where was the empire of the Mexica located?
Central Mexico
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Homo sapiens evolved in and migrated out of which continent?
Africa
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The land bridge connecting Siberia to Alaska was exposed from around 80,000 years ago to about 10,000 years ago as a result of
a global cold spell.
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Historians base their interpretation of the past largely on
written records.
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The term Archaic is used by archaeologists to describe
the cultures that descended from Paleo Indians
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The central values of the Mexica revolved around
war.
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The Muskogean peoples descended from which culture?
Mississippian
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In their study of the past, Archaeologists focus on
. physical artifacts.
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What was the most densely settled area in all of ancient North America?
California
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The Americans who inhabited North America in 1492 possessed
many forms of symbolic representation.
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What caused the movement of many of the tribes on the Great Plains between AD 1300 and AD 1500?
Iroquoian and Algonquian tribes forced them westward.
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Which of the following describes the Folsom hunters of the Great Plains?
The hunters lived as nomads.
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Iroquoian societies were unusual in that they were
matrilineal.
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What prevented human beings from living in the Western Hemisphere until long after they had evolved?
Humans couldn t travel to North and South America after the Americas detached from the supercontinent called Pangaea.
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What allowed the Chumash people of California to establish relatively permanent villages?
. Plentiful food resources
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About 5,000 years ago, peoples in the Pacific Northwest began to develop
sophisticated woodworking skills.
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Around 4000 BP, Woodland cultures were changed by the introduction of pottery and
agriculture.
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By 1492, the indigenous population of the New World was about the same as the population of
Europe.
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Why did Southwestern peoples develop systems of agriculture?
The availability of wild plants was unreliable.
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Approximately when did the development of writing occur?
8,000 years ago
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What allowed humans to reside permanently in cold regions?
Learning how to sew animal skins into warm clothing
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Ancient Americans and their descendants created societies that
were diverse and complex.
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What do the burial mounds constructed by Woodland cultures suggest?
The existence of a social and political hierarchy
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