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 Ch. 1 Review –
The Earliest Americans
Student DJ – Kristen G.  

  


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Choose the BEST answer for the questions below. You may also work with a partner and use the Authentic Cooperative Learning (ACL) machines in HistoryClassroom.com in order to preview, learn, and review.
  1. Scientists who study the remains of early people and of early cultures.

    Your answer:
    Vegetarians
    Archaeologists
    Society
    Tribe

  2. Method used by scientists to estimate the age of certain artifacts left by early people.

    Your answer:
    Technology
    Taste test
    Radiocarbon dating
    Smell for a "musty" odor

  3. Periods in history during which glaciers covered large areas of the northern regions of the earth.

    Your answer:
    Economy
    Bering Strait
    Ice Ages
    Technology

  4. Area in which a strip of land connected Asia with North America.

    Your answer:
    Vegetation
    Bering Strait
    Incas
    Society

  5. Term used to describe the many types of plant life gathered by early people.

    Your answer:
    Radiocarbon dating
    Tribe
    Archaeologists
    Vegetation

  6. Development and use of tools, weapons, and other physical objects.

    Your answer:
    Economy
    Society
    Archaeologists
    Technology

  7. Group of people who share the same customs and institutions.

    Your answer:
    Tribe
    Society
    Economy
    Technology

  8. Part of an Indian society that lived in the same area, spoke the same language, and held the same religious beliefs.

    Your answer:
    Tribe
    Vegetarians
    Society
    Archaeologists

  9. System in which goods are made, divided, and used.

    Your answer:
    Radiocarbon dating
    Ice Ages
    Tribe
    Economy

  10. South American Indians who built the largest Indian civilization in the Americas.

    Your answer:
    Technology
    Archaeologists
    Society
    Incas

  11. Our knowledge of the earliest Americans has been gained largely through the ...

    Your answer:
    legends of early people.
    records left by space ships.
    written records left by early people.
    work of archaeologists.

  12. Different cultures developed in the Americas as ...

    Your answer:
    agriculture became less important.
    nearly all early Americans became farmers.
    Americans developed "road rage".
    the earliest Americans adapted to new environments.

  13. By about 8000 B.C. people were living ...

    Your answer:
    In most areas of the Americas.
    only in North America.
    on the moon.
    only near the Arctic Circle.

  14. The first people in North America were probably ...

    Your answer:
    Europeans
    etruscans
    hunters who followed migrating animal herds.
    Farmers

  15. The basis of the Mayan, the Aztec, and the Incan civilizations was ...

    Your answer:
    hunting.
    food gathering.
    buying at the health food store.
    farming.

    (Actually, the correct answer is farming.)

  16. The most inportant group in the Aztec society was made up of the ...

    Your answer:
    merchants.
    religious leaders.
    military leaders.
    aerospace engineers

  17. The economic and political power in the Iroquois society was, in large part, held by the ...

    Your answer:
    women.
    computer programmers.
    men.
    priests.

  18. Farming led to important changes in the development of early cultures in America because ...

    Your answer:
    it increased tribal warfare.
    it led to more back strain.
    it increased the southward migration of early people.
    the entire tribe was no longer needed to search for food.

  19. The lack of food in some areas of North America led some tribes to ...

    Your answer:
    set up colonies on the moon.
    migrate to Asia
    produce food surpluses
    divide into smaller bands.

  20. The Big-Game Hunting cultures of North America generally lived ...

    Your answer:
    in what is today the eastern United States
    on the Great Plains.
    tree-tops.
    in the Pacific Northwest.


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