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Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

• Which of the following were the first to cultivate food crops in the Americas?
• European colonists in South America
• Indians along the Atlantic seaboard of North America
• Jesuit missionaries in southern California
• Indians living in central Mexico

• Which of the following was a consequence of the spread of agricultural techniques among Indian groups?
• Cultural differences among groups of Indians disappeared.
• Most groups began to live a more sedentary existence.
• The various groups began to engage in almost constant warfare.
• Political power within the various groups fell into the hands of land-owning elite.

• Why did the practice of settled agriculture lead to the emergence of more complex civilizations?
• People practicing settled agriculture needed a more structured political system.
• People with a steady supply of food were free to devote their energy to accumulating wealth, producing art,

building cities, and creating ceremonies and rituals.

• An increase in the number of children in such societies gave rise to the educational institutions associated with

complex civilizations.

• Property owners in such societies demanded laws and institutions that protected their property rights.

• Which of the following is true of Cahokia, also known as the City of the Sun?
• It was the center of the Aztec world.
• An early form of writing was invented there.
• Its economy was based on culture and trade.
• It was pillaged by Cortez in 1519 CE

• Which of the following best explains the differences in the means of subsistence and lifestyles that emerged among

Indian groups in the New World?

• Disagreements over political beliefs caused groups to separate.
• The various tribes migrated to the Americas separately and came from widely divergent cultures.
• Different Indian groups adapted their means of subsistence and lifestyles to the environment in which they

settled.

• Geographic barriers in the New World made interaction between different Indian tribes impossible.

• Which of the following best explains the fact that bands of Indian hunters remained small in the area of the Great Basin

(present-day Nevada and Utah)?

• The disease environment dramatically lowered the life expectancy of the inhabitants of the Great Basin.
• The tribes of the Great Basin enacted laws that imposed strict limitations on the size of each band within the

tribe.

• The inadequate supply of large game made it difficult to find food in sufficient quantity to support large

groups.

• The practice of human sacrifice significantly reduced the population of the bands and tribes of the Great Basin.

• How were North American Indian agricultural societies similar to each other? 2 / 4

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• Their families were matrilineal.
• The clans were patrilineal.
• Women were exclusively responsible for agricultural work.
• The chiefs in these societies were often women.

• The design of pre-Columbian Indian villages indicates which of the following?
• These societies had an extensive trade network with one another.
• Native Americans once had a common culture because there are no differences among the villages of hunter-

gatherer societies, agricultural societies, and fishing societies.

• The design of Indian villages around a central place of worship indicates that, although widely separated, all

Indians had the same religious beliefs.

• The defensive design of villages indicates that North American Indians fought with each other long before the

arrival of Europeans.

• Women were most likely to hold political positions in
• hunting tribes.
• tribes that had no sexual division of labor.
• nomadic tribes.
• agricultural tribes.

• Which of the following is true of the Algonquians?
• They followed the example of the Aztecs, practicing settled agriculture and living a sedentary existence.
• They accepted women as rulers in some villages.
• They defined the extended family patrilineally.
• They were unique among the North American tribes in that they had no known religious beliefs.

• The diverse inhabitants of North America spoke well over how many distinct languages?
• 1,000
• 500
• 1,500
• 750

• Which of the following was one of the major means of subsistence of the people living in the northernmost region of

Upper Guinea?

• Farming
• Animal husbandry
• Cultivation of rice
• The gold trade

• How did Upper Guinea differ from Lower Guinea in the 1400 CE?
• Lower Guinea was primarily democratic; Upper Guinea had autocratic leadership.
• Women were rice farmers in Lower Guinea; in Upper Guinea they traded.
• While Lower Guinea peoples continued to practice traditional African religions, the influence of the Islamic

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Upper Guinea.

• Most Africans of Lower Guinea were similar to the agricultural Indians of the Americas in which of the following

respects?

• The political systems of both consisted of hereditary rulers governing agricultural empires.
• Both assigned agricultural tasks to men.
• Both lived a nomadic existence.
• The religious practices of both revolved around rituals designed to ensure a good harvest.

• At the time of initial contact with the Europeans, Lower Guinea was characterized by
• powerful and wealthy empires.
• decentralized political and social authority.
• religious disagreements between Christian rulers and the Muslim masses.
• acceptance of and strong devotion to Islam on the part of rulers and people.

• The societies of West Africa were like Native American societies in which of the following respects?
• The social systems of both were organized on the basis of the dual-sex principle.
• The political systems of both were organized on the basis of autocratic rule.
• In both, work assignments were organized on the basis of a sexual division of labor.
• In both, women were allowed to hold formal political power over men.

• The social systems of West Africa were all organized on the basis of the dual-sex principle, which meant that
• female political and religious leaders governed the women and males ruled the men.
• men and women were expected to have not only a sexual partner of the opposite sex but one of the same sex as

well.

• every man could have two wives and every woman could have two husbands.
• all individuals were believed to have both a masculine and a feminine side.

• Members of the Sandé cult
• frequently engaged in wars with neighboring tribes to obtain prisoners for human sacrifice to the gods.
• established diplomatic relations between Benin and Portugal and acted as middlemen in the trade between the

two societies.

• were led by female religious leaders and were not allowed to reveal the secrets of their cult to men.
• were the only known West Africans to have monotheistic religious beliefs.

• Fifteenth-century European, African, and Mesoamerican societies differed from most North American Indian societies

in that the former were

• theocratic in nature.
• hierarchical in nature.
• egalitarian in nature.
• patriarchal in nature.

• In contrast to African and Native American societies, women in European societies were
• not allowed to engage in certain kinds of work.
• usually denied positions of political and religious authority.
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