Anasazi - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Paleolithic cave paintings may have been intended to do what? Ans: Serve as magic charms to ensure successful hunting, function as lunar calendars, predicting seasonal migration of the animals, and conjure game by depicting it. Paleolithic cave paintings did NOT Ans: Commemorate the dead buried in caves. Which of the following statements reflects the changed thinking regarding prehistoric art due to the discovery of Chauvet Cave? Ans: Art did not necessarily evolve in a linear progress...

Examples of sustainable prehistoric civilization(s) include..... - Inca and Zuni Hopi and Zuni maize is...... - Open-pollenated and drought-tolerant The Zuni use small rock dams to slow and diffuse the water onto their agricultural fields. These rock dams work well when...... - Rainfall is more intense The Inca abandoned terraces because..... - The terraces were above the irrigation canal and were no longer needed due to the population crash The Incan terrace soils had high levels of...

AMSCO AP US History Chapter 1-3corn - correct answers The Mayas and the Incas cultivated corn as an important stable food supply. (p. 2) horses - correct answers It was not until the 17th century that the American Indians acquired these animals from the Spanish. (p. 4) disease - correct answers When Europeans came to America they brought smallpox and measles to which the natives had no resistance. Millions of American Indians died from these diseases. (p. 8) encomienda system - correct ...

NM HISTORY NEW MEXICO IS A TERRITORY EXAM | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+ absolute location Correct Answer: The exact position of a place on the earth's surface. relative location Correct Answer: The position of a place in relation to another place Anasazi Correct Answer: A Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings. They were mainly basketmakers and pueblo pe...

Fall of Constantinople meant correct answers Loss of the silk road+spices, silks, and gems from East The loss of the silk road drove correct answers European monarchies to expand their borders How do Archeologists believe people came to the Americas? (2) By 1492, how many natives lived there? correct answers -boat from Asia -Crossed Bering Land bridge from Siberia to Alaska -58-113 million Maya -Rule from -Built city of -Extended empire to ___ states -Developed advanced systems of...

NM History New Mexico Latest Version Graded A+ absolute location The exact position of a place on the earth's surface. relative location The position of a place in relation to another place Anasazi A Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings. They were mainly basketmakers and pueblo people. Manifest Destiny the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the ...

First President - George Washington () Second President - John Adams () Third President - Thomas Jefferson () Fourth President - James Madison () Fifth President - James Monroe () Sixth President - John Quincy Adams () Seventh President - Andrew Jackson () Eighth President - Martin Van Buren () Ninth President - William Henry Harrison (1841) Tenth President - John Tyler () Eleventh president - James K. Polk () Twelfth President - Zachary Taylor () Thirteenth President - Millard Fillm...

Paleo Indians - the first Americans who crossed from Asia into North America sometime between 38,000 and 10,000 BC Berginia - Land bridge from last ice age Agriculture revolution - 10,000 years ago climate got warmer so everyone started farming Native Americans - Decendants to paleo indians. Over 650 groups Mesoamerica - Olmecs mayas toltecs and aztecs Olmecs - First great Toltecs - Traders Mayas - Farners + raiders Aztecs - 5 million popukation. Conquered by spanish empire North Am...