TEST 1:Mesoamerica and West Africa

What is pointed out to be the relevant discovery in this article?

• new African communities
• first DNA discovery
• first ancient genomes from West Africa
• new blood discovery of ancient Americans

Adding ancient DNA to the picture of human evolution can reveal human populations that have vanished and continue on only as traces of DNA in distant relatives.

• True
• False

The result of this DNA analysis leads to -

• new clues to the complex hominin journey
• opens doors for more DNA experiments
• realization of the West African dreams
• awareness of multi-cultural differences

Each pair of DNA seemed to share family relations during the slices of time they were alive. The pair of 3,000-year-old individuals were second-degree relatives like uncle and niece or half-siblings. The pair of 8,000-year-old individuals were fourth-degree relatives, akin to first cousins once removed. Experts believed this site to be -

• a church
• a school
• a family cemetery
• a tribe

“It’s great to see that it can be done,” Tishkoff says of the analysis of ancient DNA from Shum Laka. But the story is still far from complete. “There’s a lot more we need to do,” she says. “We just don’t have enough data from Africa.”

• The experts are positive about the possibilities of discovering more genomes of West Africa.
• The experts are disappointed that sets of DNA are not enough to bridge the hominid journey.
• Experts are looking forward to connecting the results of the ancient first genomes of West Africa to the hominid journey of the Africans.
• Results found by expert are completely relevant but not useful at all in this analysis.

Mesoamerican empires (Choose five)

• Aztec
• Olmec
• Zapotec
• Mayan
• Inca

West African empires (choose 3)

• Mali
• Songhai
• Ghana
• Olmec
• Sumer

Sunni Ali completed the takeover of Djenne when he married the queen of Djenne.

• True
• False

How is Quipus used? The main system employed by the Incas to record information. The knotted cords were used to record countable information. The colors, knots and the distances between the knots enabled those who used the quipus to identify the type of object or the characteristics of the population being recorded.

• True
• False

Askia Mohammad I established the largest and strongest empire in the history of West Africa.

• True
• False