quizzes-1-15. University of Sarajevo FILOZOFSKI 236

he American Yawp
Chapter 1 – Indigenous America
Quiz
1. The first Americans arrived on the North American continent
approximately_____________
a. 1-2 million years ago
b. 400 – 800 thousand years ago
c. 12-20 thousand years ago
d. 3-9 thousand years ago
2. Agriculture arose in North America (and western hemisphere more generally)
a. 3,000 years later than in Asia/eastern hemisphere
b. 10,000 years later than in Asia/eastern hemisphere
c. Nearly simultaneously as in Asia/eastern hemisphere
d. 3,000 years earlier than in Asia/eastern hemisphere
3. The crops most commonly grown by Native Americans, also called the “Three Sisters,”
include all of the following except
a. Maize (corn)
b. Squash
c. Beans
d. Wheat
4. What is the best term to describe Native American ancestry/descent?
a. Patrilineal
b. Matrilineal
c. Bilineal
d. Antilineal
5. What was the name of the largest city in the Mississippian Empire?
a. Cahokia
b. Cuzco
c. Pueblo Bonito
d. Natchez
6. What is the name of the Native American group who lived in Chaco Canyon?
a. Apache
b. Pueblo
c. Comanche
d. Olmec
7. Most Native Americans understood property rights as primarily relating to which of the
following concepts?
a. Inherit