Question 1

The term _________________ describes the spread of common technologies, cultural practices, and forms of social and political organization among Mississippi Valley farming societies from the eighth century onward.

Accepted Answer

A)  Mississippian evolution 
B)  Mississippian emergence 
C)  Northeastern emergence 
D)  Northeastern epidemic

Question 2

The Andean region did not develop the tradition of ________________ seen in Mesoamerica.

Accepted Answer

A)  metalworking 
B)  irrigation 
C)  animal husbandry 
D)  writing and record keeping

Question 3

What united Mesoamerica as a regional society was a common _____________ that produced similar patterns of elite status, political power, and economic control.

Accepted Answer

A)  language 
B)  ideology 
C)  religion 
D)  ancestry

Question 4

Most scholars believe that in its formative stages, Teotihuacán was ruled by

Accepted Answer

A)  an elected government 
B)  a single hereditary king 
C)  a cadre of priests 
D)  a military elite

Question 5

After Easter Island's ecology was devastated by the clearing of the island's forests, the remaining people subsisted mainly on

Accepted Answer

A)  irrigation farming 
B)  cassava 
C)  fishing 
D)  trade

Question 6

The languages spoken on Bougainville are

Accepted Answer

A)  Papuan or Austronesian 
B)  Lapita 
C)  mostly Papuan or Austronesia, with a few that linguists struggle to classify 
D)  unlike anything spoken elsewhere in the Pacific Islands

Question 7

The eventual adoption of maize as a staple food northern Mexico and the southwestern United States was made possible in part by

Accepted Answer

A)  the domestication of beasts of burden 
B)  changing climate 
C)  the difficulty of obtaining salt 
D)  the introduction of the bow and arrow

Question 8

The collapse of Tiwanaku around 1000 seems to have been caused by

Accepted Answer

A)  conquest by Wari 
B)  prolonged drought 
C)  civil unrest 
D)  the arrival of the Spanish

Question 9

Scholars have determined that the Moche society suffered through a drought lasting more than thirty years in the late sixth century on the basis of

Accepted Answer

A)  evidence from tree rings 
B)  geological evidence 
C)  written testimony collected by the Spanish 
D)  pottery findings

Question 10

In Mayan culture, ch'ulel was

Accepted Answer

A)  the title given by the Maya to the rulers of their city-states 
B)  "Book of Council," later written down in the Latin alphabet after the Spanish conquest 
C)  the sacred essence contained in human blood that made it a potent offering to the gods 
D)  the ballgame played as a solemn restaging of the mythical contest in which the Hero Twins triumphed over the lords of the underworld

Exam 10: Societies and Networks in the Americas and the Pacific 300–1200