D1T1P1: Discovery and Settlement of the New World

Around 20,000 to 15,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age, sea levels dropped, exposing a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. What was it called?

• Arctic Bridge
• Alaskan Corridor
• Siberian Passage
• Bering Land Bridge

What culture between 800-1600CE grew maize as a staple, built large earthen mounds for religious and political purposes, had a 20,000 population, and had complex trade networks?

• Ancestral Puebloan culture
• Hopewell and Adena

• Iroquois Confederacy

• Mississippian culture

What culture influenced other Native American tribes such as Choctaw, Creek, and Natchez?

• Ancestral Puebloan culture
• Mississippian culture
• Iroquois Confederacy
• Plains culture

What culture was known for multi storied stone dwellings and kivas, developed sophisticated irrigation systems, traded turquoise and pottery, between 100-1600CE?

• Plains

• Ancestral Puebloans
• Hopewell and Adena

• Mississippians

What culture were the ancestors of Hopi, Zuni, and Pueblo people?

• Ancestral Puebloans

• Mississippian
• Plains

• Iroquois Confederacy

What culture was known for their elaborate burial mounds and earthworks, often in geometric shapes, and an extensive trade network between 1000BCE - 500CE

• Hopewell and Adena

• Iroquois Confederacy

• Mississippian culture
• Plains

What culture’s spiritual and ceremonial traditions influenced later Eastern Woodlands culture?

• Northeast Woodland culture
• Great Plains culture
• Mississippian culture
• Ancestral Pueblo culture

What culture had a powerful political and military alliance with other cultures, developed the Great Law of Peace, and later influenced Benjamin Franklin

• Cherokee Nation
• Sioux Confederacy
• Pueblo Tribes
• Iroquois Confederacy

What culture became a model of governance and diplomacy among Native and colonial nations?

• Sioux Confederacy
• Cherokee Nation
• Iroquois Confederacy
• Pueblo Tribes

What culture became nomadic after the introduction of horses and had bison central to their economics and spirituality

• Hopewell and Adena

• Plains

• Iroquois Confederacy

• Ancestral Puebloans