Week 1

Question 1

Poverty Point

Answer 1

Northern Louisiana, Native Americans, 1000 BCE. Created as a city center, including effigy mound and wickiups

Question 2

Grave Creek Mound

Answer 2

Adena Culture, Moundsville WV, 0 CE. Largest of the Adena burial mounds with multiple burial chambers

Question 3

Newark Earthworks

Answer 3

Hopewell Culture, Newark Ohio, 200 CE. Gates linked to moon rising and setting, landscape as palimpsest (golf course)

Question 4

Cahokia

Answer 4

Mississippians, Cahokia IL, 1150 CE.
Had around 30k people, used pyramid mounds to elevate residences

Question 5

Pueblo Bonito

Answer 5

Anasazi, Chaco Canyon NM, CE 1100. Multistory, flat roof, dry masonry

Question 6

St. Augustine

Answer 6

Spanish, St Augustine FL, 1565. Laws of the Indies, gridded streets, central plaza

Question 7

Church of San Esteban

Answer 7

Catholic Spanish Mission, Acoma Pueblo NW, 1630-1664. Built on top of the Acoma people, battered apse and single nave

Question 8

Long Lots

Answer 8

French, 18th century, St Lawrence and Mississippi River Valleys. Rural division of land to allow for river frontage

Question 9

Cahokia Courthouse

Answer 9

DO NOT CONFUSE French, Cahokia Cty IL, 1737. Poteux sur Sole, hip roof and encircled porch.

Question 10

Fur Trader’s Cabin

Answer 10

French, Green Bay WI, 1800. Piece sur piece, using logs themselves as nogging for the horizontals. Hip roof w less extension.

Question 11

Parlange Plantation

Answer 11

French Plantation House, Louisiana 1750. Elevated porch and extended eaves