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What was the main cause of the exposed land bridge connecting Eurasia to North America?
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Extended periods of drought during the last Ice Age lowered ocean levels
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Plate tectonics temporarily led to a rise in the ocean floor within the Bering Sea
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Much of the water in the oceans congealed into vast glacial packs
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Increased snowfall on land during the last Ice Age lowered ocean levels
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The shift of Eurasian and North American plates briefly connected the two continents
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Which theory best describes the spread of maize as a staple crop through the Native American populations?
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Maize was first developed upon the Siberian steppes and carried to the Americas via the land bridge
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Maize was developed in South American and slowly spread throughout the rest of the Americas via pre-Columbian trade routes
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Maize was developed by the nomadic tribes of North America but was first grown intensively as a staple crop by Native American groups in Central and South America
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The cultivation of maize occurred separately in isolated pockets throughout the two continents
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Maize was first developed in the region that is now Mexico and spread through the Americas in a slow and uneven process.
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The Native American Mississippian Valley culture differed from other Native American groups in that it
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illustrated a higher level of hierarchical political organization
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existed in mainly seminomadic populations with limited agriculture
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had a developed network of trade with other regional tribes
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based its social structure on maternal lineage
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closely tied its religion to the natural world
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In agricultural terms, how did Native Americans differ from their European counterparts?
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Europeans had a greater diversity in the types of staple crops they6 used for subsistence
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Unlike Europeans, Native Americans lacked any efficient means to clear the vast forests to open land for intensive agriculture
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Europeans achieved greater technologies to alter the landscape in a more aggressive manner
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Unlike the sedentary European communities, the nomadic lifestyle of the Native Americans limited their ability to develop high-yield strains of vegetation
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The Native Americans had less agricultural diversity than European farmers
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In what way did pre-Columbian Mesoamerican and Central American civilizations most greatly contrast with European societies?
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The pre-Columbian civilizations in these regions lacked highly developed trade routes, so they developed more independently than European societies
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Unlike European societies, the pre-Columbian societies in these regions lacked large draft animals to aid in transportation, agriculture, or transportation
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Unlike European societies, the pre-Columbian societies in these regions failed to develop sophisticated systems within the sciences such as mathematics or astronomy
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Unlike European societies, the pre-Columbian societies in these regions never established a developed system of class or labor division
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Unlike Euroepean societies, pre-Columbian societies in these regions failed to develop an understanding of metalworking
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In Native North American culture along the Eastern Seaboard, the Three Sisters would most accurately refer to
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the sustainable agricultural technique of growing maize, beans, and squash
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the matrilineal upon which most clans were based in this region
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the trade and cultural network established between Native Americans living in North America with those in Central and South America
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a creationist myth common among eastern tribes
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The early American Indian civilizations of Mexico and Peru were based on which agricultural product?
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wheat
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maize
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cattle
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horses
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coffee
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The Great Binding Law (Constitution of the Iroquois People) by Gayanashagowa, circa CE 1451
We place you upon those seats...beneath the shade of the spreading branches of the Tree of Peace,... and all the affairs of the Five Nations shall be transacted at this place... A bunch of a certain number of shell strings each two spans in length shall be given to each of the female families in which the Lordship titles are vested. The right of bestowing the title shall be hereditary in teh family of the females legally possessing the bunch of shell strings and the strings shal be the token that the females of the family ahve the proprietary right to the Lordship title for all time to come, subject to certain restrictions hereinafter mentioned.
Which of the following Native American groups would not be associated with the "Five Nations"?
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Mohawk
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Oneida
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Cayuga
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Seneca
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Powhatan
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The Great Binding Law (Constitution of the Iroquois People) by Gayanashagowa, circa CE 1451
We place you upon those seats...beneath the shade of the spreading branches of the Tree of Peace,... and all the affairs of the Five Nations shall be transacted at this place... A bunch of a certain number of shell strings each two spans in length shall be given to each of the female families in which the Lordship titles are vested. The right of bestowing the title shall be hereditary in teh family of the females legally possessing the bunch of shell strings and the strings shal be the token that the females of the family ahve the proprietary right to the Lordship title for all time to come, subject to certain restrictions hereinafter mentioned.
The passage referencing the bestowing of titles of lordship varied from most European Cultures of the time in that
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by the fifteenth century much of Europe had moved toward republican forms of government
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European monarchies more commonly were based in male lineage rather than female lineage
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by the fifteenth century most European Cultures had abandoned hereditary titles
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the passage made note of restrictions upon the title of lordships which was not present in Europe
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European cultures of the time did not create systematic rules for their leaders
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The Great Binding Law (Constitution of the Iroquois People) by Gayanashagowa, circa CE 1451
We place you upon those seats...beneath the shade of the spreading branches of the Tree of Peace,... and all the affairs of the Five Nations shall be transacted at this place... A bunch of a certain number of shell strings each two spans in length shall be given to each of the female families in which the Lordship titles are vested. The right of bestowing the title shall be hereditary in teh family of the females legally possessing the bunch of shell strings and the strings shal be the token that the females of the family ahve the proprietary right to the Lordship title for all time to come, subject to certain restrictions hereinafter mentioned.
The preceding passage conflicts with general views of Native American groups of North America in that these groups are most commonly viewed as
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living in dense but isolated pockets throughout the continent
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elaborately developed social groups in centrally organized nation-states
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independent paternal-based social groups living in small seminomadic populations
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sporadic with inconsistent development between tribes, lacking a common linguistic base
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lacking dense population concentrations or highly developed social life in the modern sense
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The Great Binding Law (Constitution of the Iroquois People) by Gayanashagowa, circa CE 1451
We place you upon those seats...beneath the shade of the spreading branches of the Tree of Peace,... and all the affairs of the Five Nations shall be transacted at this place... A bunch of a certain number of shell strings each two spans in length shall be given to each of the female families in which the Lordship titles are vested. The right of bestowing the title shall be hereditary in teh family of the females legally possessing the bunch of shell strings and the strings shal be the token that the females of the family ahve the proprietary right to the Lordship title for all time to come, subject to certain restrictions hereinafter mentioned.
The preceding passage illustrates the idea that the Native American clan in North America was primarily based on
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a kinship network
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multiple nuclear families based on paternal lines
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a single religious leader and his followers
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a single chieftain and his warriors with their spouses and children
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a defined tribal council of elders, the sons, and spouses
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The Saga of Erik the Red, circa thirteenth century English translation by J. Sephton, 1880
Now when spring began, they beheld one morning early, that a fleet of hide-canoes was rowing from the south off the headland; so many were they as if the sea were strewn with pieces of charcoal, and there was also the brandishing of staves as before from each boat. then they held shields up, and a market was formed between them and this people in their purchases preferred red cloth; in exchange they had furs to give, and skins quite grey. They wished also to buy swords and lances, but Karlsefni and Snorri forbad it. They offered for the cloth dark hides, and took in exchange a span long of cloth, and bound it round their heads; and so matters went on for a while. But when the sock of cloth began to grow small, then they split it asunder.
The preceding passage describes early contact between North American Native Americans and
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French fur traders
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English Missionaries
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Dutch merchants
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early Norse explorers
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Spanish conquistadors
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The Saga of Erik the Red, circa thirteenth century English translation by J. Sephton, 1880
Now when spring began, they beheld one morning early, that a fleet of hide-canoes was rowing from the south off the headland; so many were they as if the sea were strewn with pieces of charcoal, and there was also the brandishing of staves as before from each boat. then they held shields up, and a market was formed between them and this people in their purchases preferred red cloth; in exchange they had furs to give, and skins quite grey. They wished also to buy swords and lances, but Karlsefni and Snorri forbad it. They offered for the cloth dark hides, and took in exchange a span long of cloth, and bound it round their heads; and so matters went on for a while. But when the sock of cloth began to grow small, then they split it asunder.
Why is L'Anse aux Meadows significant within North American history?
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It marks the first example of pre-Columbian European contact with Native Americans
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It marks the first example of the cultivation of maize in North American outside of Mexico
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It serves as an example of a highly developed Native American nation state in North America
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It contians the oldest fossil record of Native American inhabitants on the North American ocntinent
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It illustrates a rare example of a sedentary Native American community
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