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Why did some paleothical hunters and gathers migrate to americas?

They were following big mammals, like the wooly mammoth

They were trying to escape the encroaching glaciers

They were seeking fertile grasslands for big grazzing mammals

They sought better materials for their tools and weapons

What two factors most signicicantly altered the lives of the Paleo Indians?

Geographical isolation and the descovery of maize

The disappearence of big mammals and the closing of the route from Berigina to the americas

Lack of a written language and the use of manufactored tools

The absence of big mammals and the dicovery of maize.

What evidence revealed to historians that a lack of protein was to blame for stagnant population growth after the demise of the big mammals?

Palolithic art

Skeletons of big mammals

Migratory patterns

Remains in garbage pits

What have historians deduced about the people of poverty point by studying their dwellings?

Their dwellings were organized by gender

Their diets were insufficient in protein and fat

They didnt have a heirarchical social structure

They were proficient at acquiring food

Why did cultiviation of corn generally become women's work?

It required far less effort

It was veiwed as communalrather than indiavidual work

It was a task women could do with young children

Men to preferred the thrill of hunting to the repetitive task of farming

Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between hunters and corn cultivators?

They had a successful trading relationship in which hunters acquired stores

They were constantly at war over previously shared territory

They were often able to coexist but when conflicts arose the corn cultivators generally prevealed

They were generally able to forge a peacful coexist

What evidence convinces archaeologists that the Cahokia had enemies?

The pallisade that surrounded the city

Artistic renderings on pottery remnants

The remains of sacrificed humans

The arrows burried with the chieflains

What was the first true urban center in america

Teotihuacan

Cahokia

Hopewell

Pueblo Bonitto

Which of the following could be considered a conswquence of the collapse of large urban communities?

Greater efforts to ally with other indgenouse people

Strict social stratification

Groups and tribes becoming smaller

Greater adherence to religiouse practice

What was one benifical side effect of the diseases that Eurasian peoples acquired from domesticated animals?

Religious tolerence increased

Human survivors developed biological resistance

Sanitation practices improved

Animal husbandry develped

Which of the following was a consequence of improving military technology in Europe?

Technology became more sophisticated and weapons more devestatingly effective

Wars declined because of the capacity for killing became to great

Wars declined because they became more expensive to undertake

Warfare increased as weaponry became more widely available

What caused the closing of the land route from Asia to North America

Earthquake

New iceage

Volcanic eruption

Rising sea levels

Clovis Blades, which originated from New Mexico have been found as far away as ________.

Europe

Africa

Asia

South America

In 1500, how did the Islamic world differ from that dominated by China?

The islamic world refused to trade with the west

The islamic world was divided into many many different empires

China had embraced Christianity

China traded far more widely than the islamic world

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