Quiz 12 D2L Quiz Questions

Question 1

True or False: The Nuclear Habitat Zone Hypothesis of the origins of agriculture says that plants and animals were first domesticated in the areas where they naturally lived as part of increasing contact with humans.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

True or False: Trees on Easter Island were depleted in part by the islanders’ focus on carving and transporting giant rock statues called moai.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

How many Maya codices have survived into the present...
A. 400
B. 40
C. 4
D. 0

Answer 3

C. 4

Question 4

True or False: Most of the Easter Island moai that are no longer standing were intentionally toppled, probably by warring factions on the island.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Aztec chinampas were a part of a…
A. system of intensive agriculture
B. trading network
C. system of labor taxation that supplied workers to the Aztec ruler
D. pattern by which the Aztecs incorporated vanquished enemies into their society

Answer 5

A. system of intensive agriculture

Question 6

K'inich Janaab Pacal, also referred to as "Pacal the Great," was...
A. Tutankhamun's father
B. a ruler of the Maya city of Palenque
C. the first Egyptian pharaoh
D. the ruler of ancient Ur

Answer 6

B. a ruler of the Maya city of Palenque

Question 7

True or False: Through barren now, Easter Island was originally densely forested with palm trees.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

We know the details of Pacal’s line of kinship because…
A. the Spanish conquistadors who captured him extracted the information from his
B. a detailed account of it was inscribed in the halls of his burial temple
C. it is detailed in the Egyptian Book of the Dead
D. it’s in the Bible

Answer 8

B. a detailed account of it was inscribed in the halls of his burial temple

Question 9

Archaeologist David Webster ascribes the collapse of the Maya to…
A. an invasion
B. a change in climate
C. a volcanic eruption
D. an ecological trap of their own making

Answer 9

D. an ecological trap of their own making

Question 10

True or False: Before all their trees were gone, Easter Islanders hunted big game on the island as their primary food source.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

Teotihuacánwas Mesoamerica's...
A. earliest cheifdom
B. first agricultural society
C. first urban civilization
D. all of the above

Answer 11

C. first urban civilization

Question 12

True or False: The Oasis Hypothesis of the origins of food production says that people turned to agriculture to create oases in the deserts where they lived.

Answer 12

False

Question 13

The idea that agriculture may have been developed in part to demonstrate prestige is a part of which hypothesis…
A. Oasis Hypothesis
B. Demographic Pressure Hypothesis
C. Nuclear/Natural Habitat Zone Hypothesis
D. Socioeconomic Competition Hypothesis

Answer 13

D. Socioeconomic Competition Hypothesis

Question 14

True or False: The Nova video about Easter Island demonstrated that moai could have been moved to their ahu platforms by using palm branches.

Answer 14

False

Question 15

Easter Island moai came from…
A. seaside rock quarries located near the ahu platforms
B. inland volcanic rock quarries far from the ahu platforms
C. exposed cliff faces along the shoreline
D. the American Museum of Natural History

Answer 15

B. inland volcanic rock quarries far from the ahu platforms

Question 16

When the Spanish invaded Mesoamerica, they found…
A. a decentralized Maya with a scattered population no longer building great monuments
B. the Maya civilization at its peak, though the lack of a centralized Maya military led to their easy defeat by the Spanish conquistadors
C. the Maya locked in a bloody war with the Aztecs, making both of these Mesoamerican civilizations an easy target for the spanish military
D. nothing but ruins; the Maya people were gone, creating one of the greatest archaeological mysteries facing modern scholars

Answer 16

A. a decentralized Maya with a scattered population no longer building great monuments

Question 17

The basic elements of Maya civilization included…
A. a socially stratified society with an elite class headed by a powerful great king
B. monumental temples with stone altars and palaces with corballed arches
C. human sacrifice, a hieroglyphic written language, a base 20 number system
D. all of the above

Answer 17

D. all of the above

Question 18

True or False: The Demographic Pressure Hypothesis of the origins of food production says that hunter-gatherers turned to agriculture by experimentation because they had exceeded the carrying capacity of the land.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

The term that best describes the central places of the Classic Maya is...
A. village
B. megalopolis
C. core
D. regal-ritual city

Answer 19

D. regal-ritual city

Question 20

Maya subsistence included...
A. slash-and-burn agriculture
B. the use of ridged fields to increase agricultural productivity
C. kitchen gardens and tree-cropping
D. all of the above

Answer 20

D. all of the above

Question 21

The public architecture of the Maya, including elaborate stone platforms topped with buildings, is associated with...
A. the merchant elite
B. the military
C. religion
D. all of the above

Answer 21

C. religion

Question 22

Maya “codices” were…
A. a series of laws or codes inscribed on upright slabs of stone
B. kinds lists inscribed on the tombs of rulers that served to legitimize their position of power
C. inscriptions that detailed the rules of the Maya ball game
D. screenfold books

Answer 22

D. screenfold books

Question 23

Teotihuacán’s rise to dominance in the Basin of Mexico occurred largely as a result of…
A. its rich agricultural soil
B. its location along a natural trade route
C. its location near an important source of obsidian
D. all of the above

Answer 23

D. all of the above

Question 24

The first civic structures built by the Maya were...
A. fully formed pyramids
B. mastabas
C. aqueducts
D. stepped platforms

Answer 24

D. stepped platforms

Question 25

True or False: The Socioeconomic Competition Hypothesis of the origins of agriculture requires areas rich in resources and ranked societies.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Archaeological evidence shows that the Maya…
A. were a people who fought bloody wars waged over trade and agricultural land
B. live in a peaceful society with a greater interest in the cosmos than in the mundane aspect of life
C. never attained the level of a state-level society
D. lived in harmony with nature

Answer 26

A. were a people who fought bloody wars waged over trade and agricultural land

Question 27

Pacal’s tomb was situated…
A. on the top of an artificial mountain
B. adjacent to that of his son, Tutankhamun
C. in the center of a series of sacrificed servants
D. under his pyramid monument

Answer 27

D. under his pyramid monument

Question 28

True or False: Easter Island’s trees were destroyed by the Europeans who arrived so they could build boats.

Answer 28

False

Question 29

The one part of Easter Island moai that were not finished until they arrived at their ahu platforms was their...
A. feet
B. eyes
C. nose
D. arms

Answer 29

B. eyes

Question 30

True or False: The transition to agriculture resulted in increased carrying capacity of the land to support people and decreased calorie value of the foods they consumed.

Answer 30

True

Question 31

True or False: The loss of trees on Easter Island ultimately led to cannibalism among the original inhabitants.

Answer 31

True

Question 32

A common characteristic of cities large and small in the Indus Valley more than 4000 years ago was…
A. the location of a raised area or “citadel” dominating the city
B. their precisely planned nature with parallel and perpendicular streets
C. craft specialist neighborhoods
D. all of the above

Answer 32

D. all of the above

Question 33

True or False: Resource intensification results in attempts to eat smaller, less preferable species.

Answer 33

True