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Historians use what to distinguish between Maya periods,such as the Early (250-550) and Late Classic (600-800) Maya?


A) The building of city walls.
B) The amount of trade with South America.
C) The building of monuments.
D) The amount of human sacrifices.
E) The Mayans' moving the Olmec basalt head sculptures.

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Unlike Mesopotamia,Egypt,India and China,agriculture began in America


A) In the Amazon River basin.
B) On highland plateaus in Mexico.
C) In the Mississippian delta.
D) In the Midwest lowlands.
E) In the Chilean lowlands.

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Please define the following key terms. -Anasazi

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Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each of the following questions -Discuss the several theories that attempt to explain the relationships between the Olmecs,Teothihuacan,and the Maya.

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Please define the following key terms. -Mesoamerica

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Evidence suggests that seeds from this plant were used for Maya medicinal drinks as early as 500 B.C.E.


A) millet.
B) wheat.
C) cacao.
D) maize.
E) none of these choices.

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Which statement best reflects the methods employed by archaeologists to piece together the history of the Americas and the Pacific?


A) They exercised great ingenuity. 
B) They are unable to piece together the history.  
C) They applied precision analysis to a sizeable amount of evidence. 
D) They  reconstructed the history using journals and letters of the early inhabitants. 
E) None of these choices. 

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Please define the following key terms. -double canoes

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Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each of the following questions -Scholars have learned a great deal about the Mayas because they left a decipherable writing system.Other peoples,before and after,did not leave a writing system or left a system that has not yet been deciphered.Give specific examples of how and what archaeologists have used in recreating past histories when writing is not necessarily available.

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Please define the following key terms. -Chavin

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Please define the following key terms. -Hero Twins

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The history of New Zealand can be summed up by which of the following statements?


A) Environmental damage is not simply a modern development.
B) The history of New Zealand is cloudy, because its writing has yet to be deciphered.
C) The earliest immigrants, unlike the rest of Polynesia, are unknown.
D) A sudden and apparent catastrophic event ended the habitation of the island.
E) Europeans found a completely uninhabited island during their Pacific journeys of exploration.

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The Maya rulerfounded his dynasty in what city?


A) Tikal.
B) La Venta.
C) Teotihuacan.
D) Copán.
E) San Lorenzo.

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Please define the following key terms. -obsidian

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The peoples of Teotihuacan developed a sophisticated civilization beginning around 200 B.C.E.that was highlighted by which of the following?


A) Large populated urban centers.
B) The use of frescoes.
C) Areas of migrant craftsmen.
D) Complex water-sewage systems.
E) All of these choices.

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Please define the following key terms. -ballgame

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Early migrations into the Pacific probably began with


A) Traveling short distances to islands that were in sight of each other.
B) Larger boats and sophisticated navigation devices.
C) The use of land bridges that connected adjacent islands.
D) The results of tectonic plate movements.
E) There is no solid evidence to answer this statement.

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Please define the following key terms. -Hopewell

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Mayan agriculture


A) Involved walled fields with guards to protect them from poachers.
B) Produced a money crop that was used in trade, rather than for food.
C) Used mostly slave labor close to the city.
D) Used natural fertilizers, which resulted in year-round agriculture.
E) Developed sophisticated slave-drawn plows.

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Unlike the early farmers of West Asia,the people of Tehuacán


A) Practiced no religions.
B) Used no draft animals.
C) Fashioned no laws.
D) Did not cultivate millet. 
E) None of these choices. 

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