FREE SOCIAL STUDIES AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT NM

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FREE SOCIAL STUDIES AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT NM

HISTORY 1ST SEM. EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: What did Juan de Oñate do to the Acoma Pueblo?

Answer:

Committed genocide against them

Question 2: What Aztec god believed humans should not be sacrificed?

Answer:

Quetzalcoatl Question 3: This Native American group made extensive irrigation canals to water their crops in an otherwise harsh landscape.

Answer:

Hohokam

Question 4: What two animals were important to Comanche life?

Answer:

Horses and Buffalo

Question 5: Basin and Range

Answer:

The Mogollon lived primarily in the southwestern area of New Mexico, in a land characterized by small mountains separated by desert grasslands. This region of New Mexico is called the...

Question 6: Who was Geronimo?

Answer:

An Apache medicine man who led resistance against the U.S. and Mexico Question 7: One of the survivors of the Narvaez Expedition was a black Moor slave who later died at the hands of the Zuni. What was his name?

Answer:

Estevanico

Question 8: New Mexico is in what two hemispheres?

Answer:

Northern hemisphere. Western hemisphere.Question 9: Which tribe is the largest group of Native Americans in New Mexico and the second-largest group of Native Americans in the United States?

Answer:

Navajo

Question 10: What excuse did the United States use to go to war against Spain?

Answer:

The explosion of the U.S.S. Maine

Question 11: What is the role of an archaeologist?

Answer:

To study prehistoric people

Question 12: Why is it important to study history from multiple perspectives?

Answer:

Because you can learn more about historic events

Question 13: The 5 elements of a map

Answer:

title, key/legend , scale grid and compass rose.,

Question 14: Who is the "Pathfinder"?

Answer:

John Fremont was an explorer, surveyor, military officer, and politician who led five western expeditions.

Question 15: Moctezuma was the leader of which group?

Answer:

The Aztec

Question 16: What were Lewis and Clark looking for?

Answer:

A water passage to the Pacific Ocean

Question 17: What is the "rain shadow"?

Answer:

The far side of a mountain which gets very little rain

Question 18: Which item is a secondary source?

Answer:

textbooks, dictionaries and encyclopaedias., biographies.

Question 19: Shamanic healers of the Navajo are called...

Answer:

Hatáálii

Question 20: The Aztecs called themselves...

Answer:

Mexica

Question 21: Hernan Cortes defeated the Aztecs in the name of which European country?

Answer:

Spain

Question 22: What was Billy the Kid's real name?

Answer:

Henry McCarty

Question 23: Teotihuacan

Answer:

is known today as the site of many of the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican pyramids built in the pre-Columbian Americas, namely Pyramid of the Sun and Pyramid of the Moon

Question 24: How are life zone's determined?

Answer:

By elevation

Question 25: What Native American group built Chaco Canyon?

Answer:

Puebloan Ancestors

Question 26: Polytheism

Answer:

A belief in more than one god.

Question 27: The Hohokam .

Answer:

were farmers who grew corn, beans, squash and agave. They also grew cotton for textiles.Question 28: What caused Native American populations to decline after Europeans arrived?

Answer:

the spread of smallpox, typhus, measles, and other infectious diseases.