Quiz for US History

Question 0

What does history mean?

Answer 0

Greek and means “inquiry”, study of past events in historical affairs

Question 1

How do we study the historical past?

Answer 1

History , Archaeology , Anthropology

Question 2

What is prehistory?

Answer 2

Period of time before advent of writing

Question 3

How do historians learn about the past?

Answer 3

Through written material and artifacts (objects made by humans)

Question 4

Who is Herodotus?

Answer 4

Father of History and wrote about the Persian Wars

Question 5

Who is Thucydides?

Answer 5

He is considered the greatest historian and wrote about the Peloponnesian Wars

Question 6

What is Anthropology?

Answer 6

Scholars who study the origins & development of people and societies

Question 7

What is culture?

Answer 7

way of life of a society

Question 8

What is Archaeology ?

Answer 8

The scientific study of material remains (ex. Fossils, artifacts and monuments)

Question 9

Describe Australopithecines?

Answer 9

They were the earliest group of hominids and the females were smaller in stature , low forehead, long ridge over their eyes

Question 10

Describe Homo Habilis

Answer 10

They were first hominids to make tools , “handy man”, tool increase in technology (skills & tools people use to meet their needs and wants), increase in brain case , decrease in size of teeth and face, flexible diet, broad range of foods

Question 11

How do archaeologists know they had a flexible diet?

Answer 11

teeth, tools , marked bones = butchery

Question 12

Describe Homo Erectus

Answer 12

Fully upright walkers, ‘upright man’ , migrated out of Africa to Europe & Asia , lived life on ground , cared for their young & old

Question 13

When did the first human beings appear in Africa ?

Answer 13

approx 2 mil years ago

Question 14

What is the “Land Bridge”?

Answer 14

The frozen pathway from Asia to North America

Question 15

How and Why did the Paleo-Indians adapt to changes in the environment?

Answer 15

because the large mammals became extinct and they hunted smaller game and foraged for wild plants

Question 16

What was the result of the changing environment?

Answer 16

increased diversification of culture as they adapted to their changing environments and they turned to agriculture (3000 B.C.)

Question 17

What is Mesoamerica?

Answer 17

the mayans and the aztecs

Question 18

Teotihuacan Pyramid

Answer 18

Mayans

Question 19

Aztec City of Tenochtitlan

Answer 19

Aztec

Question 20

How were North Americas livings less complex societies ?

Answer 20

Existence of clans and kinship networks, didn’t believe in the individual ownership of land, Matrilineal (inheriting or determining descent through the female line ) or Patrilineal ( inheriting or determining descent through the male line), were undermined by their own diversions, European incursions on their lands, economic, dislocation and disease

Question 21

What are the 2 theories of crossing the Bering Strait ?

Answer 21

1) c.15,000 BC , people crossed via land bridge

2) People crossed using small boats in c.40,000 BC

Question 22

When did the Ice Age climate warm up and what were the results ?

Answer 22

12,000-10,000 BC , the melting ice and thus oceans rose to current levels and environmental increased in diversity

Question 23

What is adobe ?

Answer 23

sun dried brick

Question 24

What are burial mounds?

Answer 24

earthen mounds constructed to bury important leaders and to enact major ceremonies

Question 25

What is Chiefdom?

Answer 25

hierarchical social organization headed by a chief

Question 26

What is the Cahokia ?

Answer 26

the largest ceremonial site in ancient NA

Question 27

What is the Publo Bonito ?

Answer 27

largest residential & ceremonial site

Question 28

Who were the Paleo-Indians ?

Answer 28

first migrants in NA

Question 29

What is Clovis Point?

Answer 29

distinctively shaped spearhead used by Paleo-Indians