U.S. History Chapter 1 – Flashcards
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Native Americans related to the natural environment by
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adapting to it in a variety of ways that served their own interest
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the greatest similarity among the many tribes that inhabited North America at the dawn of European colonization was that
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their distinct cultures had developed as adaptations to their local natural environments
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burial mounds and chiefdoms are associated with
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woodland cultures
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around the time Europeans arrived in the new world most native Americans obtained much of their food
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through a combination of hunting and gathering and farming
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Cahokia near present day St. Louis Missouri was
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The largest Mississippian state
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Anasazi culture disappeared
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because of a drought that lasted more than fifty years
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multistory cliff dwelling and puevlos are residential atructures associated with the
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Anasazi communities
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Ancient Southwestern Indians became experts in
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Water conservation.
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Corn became a food for crop for Southwestern cultures around
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3500 BP
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Archaic cultures in the Southwest adopted agriculture in response to
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environmental conditions that made the supply of wild plant food highly reliable
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Agriculture changed Archaic cultures because it
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encouraged the gradual establishment of permanent settlements and discourage mobility
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The cultures of the Archaic people of the Eastern Woodland were shaped by their
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forest environment.
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Which of the following is an accurate description of the Archaic Indians?
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They domesticated animals as a food source.
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The term Archaic describes
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hunting and gathering cultures that descended from the Paleo-Indians, as well as the period from 10,000 BP to approximately
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In 1492, Native American cultures were
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so varied that they defy easy and simple description.
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After their arrival in the Western Hemisphere, Paleo-Indians migrated to the southern tip of South America and virtually everywhere else in the Western Hemisphere within
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1,000 years or so.
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Although the exact time people began migrating to North America is debated by experts, the first migrated probably arrived
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around 15,000 BP
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Though ancient Americans lacked writing skills, they
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used many other kinds of symbolic representation
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Which of the following statements does not accurately describe the work of a historian?
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Historian seeks artifacts over written documents to determine the attitudes of a people
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Prior to the find at Folsom, New Mexico, in the 1920s, many archaeologists believed that the first people of North America
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arrived relatively recently, probably no more than three or four thousand years ago.
