Chapter 1 Test

The Maya were the first Americans to use horses and wheeled carts.

• True
• False

Archaeologists do not know the exact date when the first people appeared in North America.

• True
• False

Some early Americans hunted bison and mammoths.

• True
• False

The Anasazi built mud-brick dwellings called mounds.

• True
• False

The Cherokee lived in the northernmost region of North America.

• True
• False

group of related families

• clan
• carbon dating
• complex
• structure
• estimate

a building

• clan
• carbon dating
• complex
• structure
• estimate

a scientific way to determine the age of an artifact

• clan
• carbon dating
• complex
• structure
• estimate

highly detailed

• clan
• carbon dating
• complex
• structure
• estimate

a rough calculation of a number

• clan
• carbon dating
• complex
• structure
• estimate