Week 9 World History: The Americas 40,000 B.C. to A.D. 700

 

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This world history resource focuses on the Americas
from 40,000 B.C. to A.D. 700 and includes quiz questions
and answers and video links to related topics.

I utilized World History: Patterns of Interaction (Holt McDougal) for our world history textbook. It has multiple options for different learning styles and covers a wide array of information.

This quiz accompanies Chapter 9: pages 232-259.

Directions for the quiz:

• Scroll down and click on the thumbnail to enlarge to full screen.
• Click on the graphic to advance to the next screen.
• Choose an answer for each question.
• Compare your answers with those provided.

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Below are free videos to accompany chapter 9:

• Learn About the Beringia Land Bridge
• How Ice Age Happens
• The Sid Shuffle
• Were humans in Americas 30,000 years ago
• History Channel: Birth of Farming
• Olmec Civilization
• Zapotec Civilization
• Khan Academy: Chavin, Nazca, Moche, Huari & Tiwanaku
• New Nazca Lines Discovered
• Moche Civilization

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World History Week 9: The Americas 40,000 B.C. to A.D. 700

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Thousands of years ago, a land bridge named ______ was thought to connect Asia and the Americas. Answer choices include: Pont d’Arc, Beringia, Fairy Bridge, Pravčická Braná

The correct answer is Beringia.

What is thought to have been the most important early crop in Mexico? Answer choices include: maize, squash, gourds, avocados

The correct answer is maize.

Floating gardens in Mexico only produced about ⅓ the harvests produced by landlocked gardens. Answer choices include: true, false

The correct answer is false.

The ____ civilization lived along Mexico’s Gulf Coast around 1200-400 B.C. & are considered Mesoamerica’s “mother culture.” Answer choices include: Aztec, Maya, Inca, Olmec

The correct answer is Olmec.

The Zapotec civilization built the first urban center in the Americas called ______. Answer choices include: St. Augustine, Aspero, Monte Albán, Flores

The correct answer is Monte Albán.

Many surviving Olmec carvings featured _______. Answer choices include: ferrets, mammoths, tortoises, jaguars

The correct answer is jaguars.

In South America, the earliest Chavin archaelogical remnants have been found in the Andes Mountains in what is now ____. Answer choices include: Peru, Brazil, Panama, Bolivia

The correct answer is Peru.

The _____ are drawings in southeastern Peru dating between 200 B.C. and A.D. 600. Answer choices include: Nimibia, Nazca Lines, Cueva de las Manos, Crop Circles

The correct answer is Nazca Lines.

The ____ of the Moche civilization depict(s) art scenes from everyday life. Answer choices include: weapons, cookware, trees, pottery

The correct answer is pottery.

What caused the fall of the earliest American cultures? Answer choices include: Archaeologists are not sure. Diseases wiped out the cities. Volcanic fires consumed the earliest civilizations. Foreign invaders prevailed but were unable to survive the rugged terrain.

The correct answer is: Archaeologists are not sure.

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