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, Chapter 01 The Collision of Cultures Key1. (p. 2) The origins of the majority of human existence in North America began
A. with the explorations of Christopher Columbus.
B. as a result of the development of the wheel.
C. long after the last ice age ended.
D. from the southern tip of South America.
E. with migrations across an ancient land bridge over the Bering Strait.
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Topic: America Before Columbus
2. (p. 2) Scholars estimate that human migration into the Americas over the Bering Strait occurred approximately
A. 18,000 years ago.
B. 5,000 years ago.
C. 2,000 years ago.
D. 9,000 years ago.
E. 11,000 years ago.
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3. (p. 4) The first truly complex society in the Americas was that of the
A. Maya.
B. Inca.
C. Aztecs.
D. Pueblo peoples.
E. Olmecs.
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Topic: America Before Columbus
4. (p. 4) The pre-Columbian North American peoples in the Pacific Northwest
A. developed political systems as sophisticated as those of the Maya and Aztecs.
B. fished salmon as their principal occupation.
C. were known as the Inuit.
D. did not have permanent settlements.
E. were the most peaceful of pre-Columbian societies.
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5. (p. 4) The pre-Columbian North American peoples in the Southwest
A. lived in small, nomadic tribes.
B. were primarily hunters of small game.
C. built large irrigation systems for farming.
D. primarily pursued moose and caribou for sustenance.
E. created an economy exclusively based on trade.
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Topic: America Before Columbus
6. (p. 4) In the Great Plains region, most pre-Columbian societies
A. lived in small nomadic tribes.
B. hunted buffalo for survival.
C. used horses.
D. developed a harsh religion that required human sacrifice.
E. engaged in sedentary farming.
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Topic: America Before Columbus
7. (p. 4-5) Prior to European contact, the eastern third of what is today the United States
A. was politically controlled by the Cahokia Indians.
B. remained for the most part uninhabited.
C. had the most abundant food resources of any region of the continent.
D. contained no permanent settlements.
E. was populated by tribes that engaged in hunting and gathering but did not yet farm.
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Topic: America Before Columbus
8. (p. 5) Cahokia was a large trading center located near what present-day city?
A. St. Louis
B. Detroit
C. New Orleans
D. Memphis
E. Baton Rouge
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9. (p. 6) Many pre-Columbian tribes east of the Mississippi River were loosely linked by
A. the shared use of a series of forts.
B. the Iroquois Confederacy.
C. common linguistic roots.
D. economic compacts.
E. intertribal religious festivals.
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Topic: America Before Columbus
10. (p. 6) Native American religions were closely linked to
A. visions from the world of spirits.
B. human sacrifice.
C. ideas of male dominance.
D. the idea of apocalypse.
E. the natural world.
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Topic: America Before Columbus
11. (p. 6) Which statement best describes the role of women in pre-Columbian North American tribes?
A. In all tribes, women were responsible for farming.
B. In no tribes did women participate in the social and economic organization of the tribe.
C. In some tribes, men took care of the children as the women tended the fields.
D. In all tribes, women cared for the children and prepared meals.
E. In all tribes, both women and men engaged in hunting.
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12. (p. 6) Regarding knowledge of the Americas prior to the fifteenth century, most Europeans
A. believed the Americas consisted of little more than several small islands.
B. were entirely unaware of the existence of the Americas.
C. had only heard of America from the travels of Marco Polo.
D. assumed that the Americas were largely unpopulated.
E. were aware of the travels of the Norse seaman Leif Eriksson in the eleventh century.
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Topic: Europe Looks Westward
13. (p. 6) In the late fifteenth century, the desire in Europe to look for new lands was spurred in part by
A. a desire to escape the Black Death.
B. the declining political power of many monarchs.
C. significant population growth.
D. the absence of a merchant class.
E. the expansion of feudalism.
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Topic: Europe Looks Westward
14. (p. 7) The preeminent European maritime power in the fifteenth century was
A. Spain.
B. the Netherlands.
C. France.
D. England.
E. Portugal.
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Topic: Europe Looks Westward
15. (p. 7) Christopher Columbus
A. was a man of little ambition.
B. thought the world was much smaller than it is in reality.
C. believed that Asia could only be reached by sailing east.
D. was trained as a sailor through his long service to Italy.
E. believed the Americas consisted of a few islands.
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