Native American Quiz

According to archaeologists Native Americans came from

• Africa

• Europe

• Asia/Siberia

• Australia

1. According to the reading on Prehistoric Native Americans, the first group found were the

• Fulsom

• Clovis

• Inuit

• Adena

1. The artifacts of these people were found in the state of

• Ohio

• Mississippi

• New Mexico

• Alaska

1. Scientists believe that the Clovis probably disappeared because

• a) They ate all the Mammoths and Mastodons

• Drought

• Disease

• Cannibalism

1. Beringia was a

• a) Native drink of berries and oranges

• a) land bridge between Asia and North America

• a) a sickness that killed off a 1/3 of the population

• a) term used for the extinction of the Mammoth

Archeologists disagree

• On the existence of saber tooth tigers

• That by 10,000 B.C. people had spread to North America

• That by 10,000 B.C. people had lived in South America

• On when the Native American specifically arrived

The invention of ________________________________ transformed the prehistoric nomadic peoples to a more sedentary life.

• Domestication

• Agriculture

• The sail

• All of the above

• Both a and b

The customs, rituals and beliefs of a society is its _________________________

• Civilization

• Egalitarian

• Sedentarian

• a) Culture

The advances, organization and utilization of resources of the Native people allowed them to create vast

• Civilizations

• Egalitarian

• Sedentarian

• Cultures

One of the major early Native American groups of the southwest were the

• Mound Builders

• Anasazi

• Ancestral Pueblos

• All of the above

• Both b and c