Deck 1: The First Civilizations of North America

Question 1

The aridity of the __________ made it a dynamic and unpredictable place to live.

Answer 1

Plains

Question 2

A distinctive feature of Iroquois and Huron architecture was the ________.

Answer 2

longhouse

Question 3

Ideal environments for the evolution and transmission of disease were created when Eurasian peoples embraced ________ and started living with one another and domesticated animals.

Answer 3

agriculture

Question 4

No innovation proved more crucial to human history than native manipulation of ________.

Question 5

Archaeologists discovered evidence of 10,000-year-old domesticated ________ in a cave in southern Mexico; the same would not appear in the American Southwest for another 7,000 years.

Question 6

Explain how early peoples evolved into stable and secure cultures.

Question 7

Explain how the emergence of ecosystems made for ever greater biological diversity.

Question 8

Describe the early cultures of the American Southwest.

Question 9

Analyze the differences between the cultures of the Pacific Northwest and the other Native American cultures in North America.

Question 10

Analyze and explain the rise of agriculture and the worldwide spread of American crops.

Question 11

Explain why Native Americans were largely spared the effects of most of the world's communicable diseases until 1492.

Question 12

Describe the Americas on the eve of contact with European civilizations.

Question 13

In an evolutionary context, why were Native Americans at a disadvantage compared to Europeans?

Question 14

Discuss the historical detective work involved in tracking the movements of the earliest Americans.
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