Chapter 1

Question 1

The first Americans arrived on the North American continent
approximately\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
a. 1-2 million years ago
b. 400 – 800 thousand years ago
c. 12-20 thousand years ago
d. 3-9 thousand years ago

Answer 1

c. 12-20 thousand years ago

Question 2

Agriculture arose in North America (and western hemisphere more generally)

a. 3,000 years later than in Asia/eastern hemisphere
b. 10,000 years later than in Asia/eastern hemisphere
c. Nearly simultaneously as in Asia/eastern hemisphere
d. 3,000 years earlier than in Asia/eastern hemisphere

Answer 2

c. Nearly simultaneously as in Asia/eastern hemisphere

Question 3

The crops most commonly grown by Native Americans, also called the “Three Sisters,”
include all of the following except
a. Maize (corn)
b. Squash
c. Beans
d. Wheat

Answer 3

d. Wheat

Question 4

What is the best term to describe Native American ancestry/descent?

a. Patrilineal
b. Matrilineal
c. Bilineal
d. Antilineal

Answer 4

b. Matrilineal

Question 5

What was the name of the largest city in the Mississippian Empire?

a. Cahokia
b. Cuzco
c. Pueblo Bonito
d. Natchez

Answer 5

a. Cahokia

Question 6

What is the name of the Native American group who lived in Chaco Canyon?

a. Apache
b. Pueblo
c. Comanche
d. Olmec

Answer 6

b. Pueblo

Question 7

Most Native Americans understood property rights as primarily relating to which of the
following concepts?
a. Inheritance
b. Warfare
c. Active use
d. Native Americans did not believe in property

Answer 7

c. Active use

Question 8

How would you compare the sexual and marital freedom of Native Americans and
Europeans before contact?
a. Europeans enjoyed greater sexual and marital freedom
b. Native Americans enjoyed greater sexual and marital freedom
c. Both shared roughly equal levels of sexual and marital freedom
d. Neither experienced any sexual and marital freedom

Answer 8

b. Native Americans enjoyed greater sexual and marital freedom

Question 9

Under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator, the Portuguese emerged as an early sea

power. Which of these inventions contributed to Portuguese sea-faring?
a. Chronometer
b. Gokstad ship
c. Astrolabe
d. Topsail

Answer 9

c. Astrolabe

Question 10

Christopher Columbus sailed under the flag of which nation?

a. Portugal
b. Spain
c. Italy
d. France

Answer 10

b. Spain

Question 11

What was the name of the first native group that Columbus encountered?

a. Arawaks
b. Songhai
c. Yanomamo
d. Mapuche

Answer 11

a. Arawaks

Question 12

Hernán Cortés relied on a native woman to conquer the Aztecs. What did he call her?

a. Doña Marina
b. La Malinche
c. Castillo
d. Quetzalcoatl

Answer 12

a. Doña Marina

Question 13

Which of the following proved essential to the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs?

a. Native dissension
b. Smallpox
c. Persuasion (some might say luck)
d. All of the above

Answer 13

d. All of the above

Question 14

In the 130 years after contact, approximately what proportion of Native Americans had
died?
a. 20%
b. 50%
c. 66%
d. 95%

Answer 14

d. 95%

Question 15

All of the following crops were first introduced to Europe through the Columbian Exchange
except
a. Tomatoes
b. Potatoes
c. Grapes
d. Cocoa

Answer 15

c. Grapes