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Which city in the Valley of Mexico was a trading center for the Mesoamerican
world?
a. Lima
b. Cuzco
c. Teotihuacn
d. Tuzigoot
Computer-aided systems for the collection, storage, retrieval, analysis, and
presentation of spatial data of all kinds.
a. remote-sensing
b. LANDSAT
c. CRM
d. GIS
Which functions as an intermediary to the ancestors and the spiritual world?
a. the "landscape of the mind"
b. sacred places
c. shamans
d. mountains
Mayan religious ceremonies justified
a. social inequality.
b. human sacrifice.
c. conquest of enemies.
d. building of megaliths.
Which of the following distinguishes a city from other settlement types?
a. A city is a large and relatively dense settlement.
b. There are centralized institutions in a city.
c. A city provides services for the villages of the surrounding area.
d. all of the above
The type of fracture that forms when a blow is struck on homogeneous types of rock.
a. conchoidal
b. compound
c. internal
d. spiral
The well-preserved body of the Tollund Man was laid to rest
a. in a Danish peat bog.
b. on the floor of the Amazon Forest.
c. in a Bolivian tin mine.
d. below many feet of frozen ground in the Italian Alps.
The name of this Australopithecine means surprise.
a. Australopithecus garhi
b. Australopithecus boisei
c. Australopithecus robustus
d. Australopithecus africanus
Egyptian pharaohs were considered to be the living embodiment of the god
a. Ra.
b. Osiris.
c. Khufu.
d. Menes.
An important food for highland Andean foragers from the time of the earliest
settlements.
a. potato
b. corn
c. wheat
d. lentils
Which of the following was an accidental discovery?
a. Tenochtitln
b. Templo Mayor
c. Lascaux Cave
d. all of the above
Potentially valuable sources of information on the exchange of exotic materials.
a. quarries
b. caves
c. burials
d. hearths
Homo sapiens sapiens used this type of substance to make many specialized tools.
a. stone
b. wood
c. clay
d. antler
Social distinctions are discerned from the study of
a. settlement patterns.
b. agriculture.
c. ornaments.
d. civilization.
Some scholars see the ocean as a/n
a. Garden of Eden.
b. wall between cultures.
c. highway system between cultures.
d. unforgiving, barren wasteland.
The homeland of Khmer-speaking people.
a. lower Mekong
b. Funan
c. India
d. Tonle Sap
The Mayan ruler who built the Temple of Inscriptions.
a. Pacal the Great
b. Great Jaguar Paw
c. Lord Water
d. Jaguar-Quetzal
All members of the family Hominidae are
a. Homo sapiens.
b. Hominins.
c. Australopithecus.
d. Neanderthals.
How did tzi the Ice Man die?
a. froze to death
b. crushed by boulders
c. starved
d. attacked by another human
Enabled people to turn over the soil to a much greater depth than ever before.
a. Clovis point
b. wattle and daub technology
c. hoe
d. plow
Over many centuries, two "poles" of Andean civilization developed, the one along
the northern coast of what is now , the other in the south-central Andes.
a. Chile
b. Colombia
c. Argentina
d. Peru
Humans and chimpanzees diverged about
a. 4 million to 5 million years ago.
b. 550,000 and 690,000 years ago.
c. 40,000 years ago.
d. 5,000 years ago.
Chan Chan
a. is a Peruvian folk dance.
b. is the name of the desert north of the Nazca Plain.
c. was a Chimu center.
d. is a deadly poison used by Amazon Indians.
A delicate chisel for carving fine lines.
a. burin
b. foreshaft
c. spear thrower
d. blade
What may have been the fundamental cause of population movement from the cities of
Harappa and Mohenjodaro into other areas?
a. flooding
b. shifts in trade
c. changes in subsistence farming
d. major geological disturbances near the Saraswati River
In the past, almost all archaeologists worked in museums or research facilities as
a. academic archaeologists.
b. self-employed archaeologists.
c. government and private sector employees.
d. teams of academic archaeologists.
This type of archaeology allows investigators to examine ways in which people
exploited their environment.
a. physical
b. settlement
c. excavation
d. chronometric
There have been at least 9 glacial periods for northern Europe and North America,
with the last one retreating
a. 5,000 years ago.
b. 10,000 years ago.
c. 15,000 years ago.
d. 20,000 years ago.
All research into the meaning of rock art starts with
a. the original.
b. paperwork.
c. photographs.
d. accurate copies.
This city includes the great enclosure of Kalasasaya, and an anthropomorphic god
called Viracocha.
a. Moche
b. Tiwanaku
c. Wari
d. Chavn
The best known early Chinese state is the
a. Huang.
b. Xia.
c. Zhou.
d. Shang.
Although they lacked the cognitive flexibility of modern humans, Homo sapiens
sapiens ultimately evolved from
a. Australopithecus afarensis.
b. Homo erectus.
c. Homo neanderthlensis.
d. Australopithecus garhi.
The process by which new ideas or cultural traits spread from person to person, group
to group, or over long distances.
a. cultural selection
b. invention
c. diffusion
d. social selection
Which is the oldest of the U-shaped ceremonial complexes?
a. Chavn de Huntar
b. El Paraso
c. Huaca Florida
d. Sechin Alto
Which of the following is NOT one of the languages found on the Behistun inscription?
a. Old Persian
b. Elamite
c. Babylonian cuneiform
d. Syrian cuneiform
