HIST 105 - Bach - Test 1 Questions and Correct Answers

HIST 105 - Bach - Test 1 Questions and Correct Answers Nomadic people from NE Asia migrated over ___ - Correct Answer Beringia What are characteristics of paleo Indians? - Correct Answer hunter gatherers; ate fish, berries, and used skins for clothes What is significant about the Clovis people? - Correct Answer Were farmers who grew revolutionary crops instead of hunter-gatherers; *formed farming societies, allowing for the birth of insitutions* What caused the Mayan collapse in 900 AD? - Correct Answer exploitation of forest, overpopulation What caused the Toltecs collapse? - Correct Answer droughts, fires, invasions What was significant abt the Inca empire? - Correct Answer In *South America*, fertile farms, paved buildings, stone buildings Who were the Mexica? - Correct Answer Aztecs, in hills of Northern Mexico; made human sacrifices What is a main characteristic of North American civilizations before 1500 - Correct Answer Gendered division of labor Anasazi and Hohokam - Correct Answer house villages on sides of rock, irrigation canals; AZ & UT Indians of the Northwest - Correct Answer artistic, totem poles, spiritual goal: achieving balance and harmony