Pre-Columbian History of America

The earliest archeological finds in North America date back to ...

• 34 000-30 000 BC

• 15 000 - 12 000 BC

• 8 000 - 6 000 BC

• 5 000 - 4 000

The name of the land bridge between Asia (Siberia) and North America (Alaska) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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Which animals were NOT typical of North America around 10 000 BC?

• the mammoth

• the bison

• the caribou

• the marabou

Which historical hypothesis regarding first settlers of Americas is fake?

• people from Polynesia and South Asia sailed across the Pacific to Mesoamerica

• people from the Bay of Biscay followed the 5 000 kilometres ice field that crossed the Atlantic in the north

• people from the North of Asia ailed along Kelp Highway, a gigantic seaweed forest in the north of the Pacific

• people migrated from Siberia through the land bridge of Beringia

Why did Beringia disappear?

• it was flooded due to the melting of ice sheets

• it was flooded with the arrival of Ice Age

• aliens simply blew it up

• it was transformed into an impassable glacier

Which plant is NOT endemic to Americas?

• cassava

• squash

• chili peppers

• dragon fruit

Sedentarization (which in case of Americas took place around 5 000 BC) is when ...

• mammoths die out

• nomads stop roaming settle down

• hunters and gathers start manufacturing tools

• Vikings go berserk

People dwelling in the Mississippi basin around 3 500 BC were famous for ...

• making basalt statues of gigantic heads

• building pyramids

• erecting mounds

• making ceramics

Which fact in NOT true about the Vikings from Greenland around 1 000?

• They sailed to North America on boats.

• They built camps in North America.

• They traded with the locals in North America.

• Their camps were abandoned and forgotten.