Native American History and Ancestry

According to the text, the first Americans arrived on the North American continent approximately

• 15,000 to 20,000 years ago
• 30,000 to 35,000 years ago
• 5,000 to 10,000 years ago
• 1,000 to 2,000 years ago

Agriculture arose in North America (and the western hemisphere more generally)

• True
• Agriculture arose in Europe
• Agriculture began in Asia
•  

  3,000 years later than in Asia/eastern hemisphere

What is the best term to describe Native American ancestry/descent in general?

• 
  Matrilineal

• Pioneer
• Settler
• Colonial

What was the name of the largest city in the Mississippian Empire?

• Chichen Itza
• Machu Picchu
• Tenochtitlan
• Cahokia

What is the name of the Native American group whose ancestors lived in Chaco Canyon?

• Navajo
• Sioux
• Pueblo

• Cherokee

How does the text compare the sexual and marital freedom of Native Americans and Europeans before contact?

• Native Americans had greater sexual and marital freedom than Europeans before contact.
• Native Americans had less sexual and marital freedom than Europeans before contact.
• Both Native Americans and Europeans had the same level of sexual and marital freedom before contact.
• Europeans had greater sexual and marital freedom than Native Americans before contact.

Under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator, the Portuguese emerged as an early sea power. Which of these inventions contributed to Portuguese mastery of the sea?

• Galleon and steam engine
• Submarine and radar
• Astrolabe

• Fishing nets and sails

What was the name of the first native group that Columbus encountered?

• Taíno
• Arawaks or Taíno

• Maya
• Inca

Who was the ruler of the Aztecs when Hernán Cortés and the Spanish arrived in 1519?

• Pizarro
• Atahualpa
• Moctezuma II
• Cuitláhuac

According to the late anthropologist Henry Dobyns, following the 130 years after first contact with Europeans, approximately what percentage of Native Americans perished?

• 95%

• 50%
• 75%
• 30%