Exam 14: An Explosion of Complexity: North America

What were the purposes of the ceremonial roads of the Hopewell and of the Ancestral Puebloans? What does the construction of these roads signify about their societies?

What physical evidence is there for social and political complexity at Hohokam, Mogollon, and Ancestral Puebloan villages?

Did Cahokia possess an egalitarian or socially stratified society? How do we know?

About how many ceremonial ball courts have been identified in the American Southwest?

Initially, many Europeans rejected the possibility that the mounds of North America had been built by Indians as well as the notion that Great Zimbabwe had been built by Africans. What was behind this? Why did many Europeans think it impossible that local, indigenous people had produced these sites?

The so-called myth of the mound builders was:

When the first Spanish explorers traversed the American Southeast in the sixteenth century:

The settlement of Aztalan in Wisconsin may have been:

The Hohokam were able to survive in the environment of their homeland by:

To the satisfaction of virtually all scientists, the "mystery" of who had built the mounds in the American Midwest and Southeast was solved:

Describe the archaeological record of the Mogollon, Hohokam, and Ancestral Puebloan.

Southwestern kivas were (and are) used for:

The Hohokam homeland is best described as a:

The dominant mound form found at Mound City in Ohio is:

Discuss the burials at Mound 72, focusing on the remains found in Mound 72sub1.

What does Mound 72 tell us about the social, economic, and political nature of the Cahokia city-state?

The focus of the diet of the first mound builders in North America was on:

Archaeologist John Kanter suggests that the Chaco road system seems to have had what kind of primary purpose:

DNA extracted from the remains of those interred in the Room 33 burial at Pueblo Bonito shows that the people buried there most likely were:

What were the impacts of Spanish explorers on the indigenous chiefdoms of the American Southeast?