Hist 111- Knowledge Check #1

Which of the following places events or developments in correct chronological order, with the earliest on the left and the latest on the right?

Extinction of the wooly mammoth (Mastadon), agricultural revolution, Mayan Empire

The inhabitants of the Mayan Empire were among the first to adopt a hunter-gatherer way of life in order to adapt to the harsh conditions of the Great Ice Age.

False

The terms "New World" and "Old World" refer to the geological age of the mountains and other major landforms in Africa and North America.

False

Which of the following was created by the Olmec Civilization?

Giant sculptures of stone heads

Which of the following were among the most important crops created during the Central American Agricultural Revolution?

Maize (corn), potatoes, squash

The term Clovis refers to

a native American culture that used a distinctive style of spear points about 10,000 years ago

The term "Paleo-Indians" refers to

a. One of the earliest migrations of ancient humans into North America, about 10,000 years ago

"Hunter-gatherer" societies were generally

a. nomadic and consisted of relatively small numbers of people, perhaps as few as 20-30 individuals.

The term "Agricultural Revolution" refers to

a. the development of agriculture in Central America about 3,000 years ago.

By about 5,000 years ago, the earth's climate had

a. warmed up and stabilized at its current level.

Which of the following choices was more likely to have practiced a "sedentary" lifestyle?

b. The Olmec and Maya Civilizations.

The end of the last Ice Age resulted in

b. a wave of extinctions of such animals as the Mastadon and Saber-toothed Tiger.

The following developments can be attributed to the "Agricultural Revolution"

b. sedentism as a way of life and the emergence of civilizations.

According to the academic/scientific version, the first human beings arrived in North America

by travelling from west to east

The term "Beringia" refers to

c. a land bridge that existed between Alaska and Siberia during the last Ice Age (2 million-10,000 years ago)

The Archaic Period was characterized by

d. a prolonged period of global warming between about 10,000 and 5,000 years ago.

The stories told by American Indian Nations about how they first came to live in North American are about the same as the academic/scientific version.

false

The significance of the Monte Verde archaeological excavation in Chile is that

it suggests that ancient Native Americans may have arrived in the Americas much earlier that was previously believed

Which of the following was one consequence of the last Great Ice Age?

ocean levels were much lower than they are today

Archaeologists believe

that there may have been several migrations of ancient human beings to North America