Unit 1 Quizizz 1

What are TWO reasons for Native American mounds?

• Burial Structures

• Shopping Areas

• Housing Structures

• Ceremonial Structures

Which of the following is an example of an artifact that helps historians determine how Native Americans lived in the past?

• Spearhead

• Jewelry

• Broken Pottery

• All of these

The Topper site is an example of what?

• A petroglyph found in Pickens at Hagood Creek

• The ceremonial location in which Native Americans would tell stories about their culture to pass down to the next generation.

• An archeological site discovered in South Carolina that led to new theories about when the first Native people lived in South Carolina.

• A famous Native American mound in the low country of South Carolina that was used for a Revolutionary War fort and is now a national historic site.

Which of the following was NOT A REASON why Native Americans during the Mississippian era chose to build their towns next to rivers.

• They used rivers as their primary source water for drinking, cleaning, and cooking.

• They used rivers to travel to other neighboring towns for trade

• Rivers were their primary source of hydroelectric power.

• They used the floodplains of rivers to help irrigate their crops.

Why would a letter written by a Spanish explorer to his wife describing the peopled he encountered on his expedition to the "New World" be a biased source of information when studying Native Americans of the past?

• The Native Americans he encountered were similar to other Native groups he experienced. Therefore he could accurately describe some of the their cultures.

• The Spanish explorer couldn't fully understand Native people and their culture since his life and experiences were so vastly different.

• Sending a letter home would take so long, the information would be inaccurate by the time it arrived.

• No Spanish explorers like Native Americans so they told lies.

Which of the following is NOT a cultural trait of the Native Peoples during the Mississippian era?

• Advanced builders who constructed large stone pyramids dedicated to the gods.

• Society that was organized into chiefdoms, and chiefs, shamans, traders, artists, and craftsmen held special statuses.

• Complex societies that contained large towns and villages along riverbanks.

• Skilled farmers who developed better ways to grow and preserve food.

What was the main reason the population grew during the Mississippian era?

• Fishing had become the primary way indigenous people acquired food.

• Mississippians had developed farming and were growing adequate amounts of food.

• Fast food drive-ins had been invented and food was easily purchased.

• Indigenous people had conquered many of the neighboring countries.

The Mississippian form of "government" is also called a(n)

• artifact

• chiefdom

• pollywog

• mound

Which of the following is NOT a way historians have been able to accurately determine different cultural aspects of Native American life in the land that later becomes South Carolina?

• retelling of passed down stories (oral tradition), such as myths

• history books written by authors living now (in modern times)

• artifacts discovered in archaeological sites, such as Topper or Hagood Mill

• travel books made by European explorers in the Mississippian period.