,Experience History, 9e (Davidson)
Chapter 1 The First Civilizations of North America
1) About 15,000 years ago BP, which land bridge was used by migrants to cross between Siberia
and Alaska?
A) Bering Strait
B) Alaskan Strait
C) Siberian Strait
D) Straits of Asia
Answer: A
Topic: Early Americans
Learning Objective: Explain the development of human settlement in the Americas and compare
the key features of early Mesoamerican, South American, and North American societies.
Bloom's: Remember
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
2) Most modern archaeologists would agree that the earliest inhabitants of the Western
Hemisphere came from which of the following areas of the world?
A) Europe
B) South America
C) Asia
D) the Arctic
Answer: C
Topic: Early Americans
Learning Objective: Explain the development of human settlement in the Americas and compare
the key features of early Mesoamerican, South American, and North American societies.
Bloom's: Understand
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
3) Which group was the first to build cities in the New World?
A) Aztecs
B) Olmecs
C) Toltecs
D) Mayas
Answer: B
Topic: Early Americans
Learning Objective: Explain the development of human settlement in the Americas and compare
the key features of early Mesoamerican, South American, and North American societies.
Bloom's: Remember
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Answer: C
Topic: Early Americans
Learning Objective: Explain the development of human settlement in the Americas and compare
the key features of early Mesoamerican, South American, and North American societies.
Bloom's: Understand
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
5) Which of the following groups lived in what is now known as the Four Corners region of the
United States?
A) Woodlands
B) Hohokam
C) Ancestral Pueblo
D) Aztecs
Answer: C
Topic: Early Americans
Learning Objective: Explain the development of human settlement in the Americas and compare
the key features of early Mesoamerican, South American, and North American societies.
Bloom's: Remember
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
6) The Mogollon, the Hohokam, and the Ancestral Pueblo were North American cultures from
which region of the United States?
A) Eastern Woodlands
B) Southwest
C) Great Plains
D) Great Basin
Answer: B
Topic: Early Americans
Learning Objective: Explain the development of human settlement in the Americas and compare
the key features of early Mesoamerican, South American, and North American societies.
Bloom's: Remember
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
, 7) The Mississippian people were a culture from the
A) Eastern Woodlands.
B) Pacific Northwest.
C) Great Plains.
D) Great Basin.
Answer: A
Topic: Early Americans
Learning Objective: Explain the development of human settlement in the Americas and compare
the key features of early Mesoamerican, South American, and North American societies.
Bloom's: Remember
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
8) The Numic-speaking peoples were from which geographic region?
A) Eastern Woodlands
B) Pacific Northwest
C) Great Plains
D) Great Basin
Answer: D
Topic: Early Americans
Learning Objective: Explain the development of human settlement in the Americas and compare
the key features of early Mesoamerican, South American, and North American societies.
Bloom's: Remember
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
9) In which of the following areas did people live in a society with deep divisions among nobles,
commoners, and slaves?
A) Subarctic
B) Pacific Northwest
C) Great Basin
D) Eastern Woodlands
Answer: B
Topic: Early Americans
Learning Objective: Explain the development of human settlement in the Americas and compare
the key features of early Mesoamerican, South American, and North American societies.
Bloom's: Remember
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
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