NEW MEXICO HISTORY -- FINAL EXAM
2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Identify the two recurring themes in New Mexico history. - ANS The living conditions of New
Mexico are often inhospitable, and the people typically live in isolation.
The largest of New Mexico's land form provinces - ANS Basin and Range.
FIVE - ANS The N.M. region has _______ important river systems.
June-September. - ANS Three-quarters of the moisture received in N.M. during an average
years occurs during the the months of
high elevation - ANS In regards to elevation, N.M. is generally considered to be a land of
12,000-8,000 years ago - ANS Humans likely first arrived in N.M. some time between this
time....
The ancestors of earliest native American peoples - ANS These people migrated by land
across the Alaskan-Siberian land bridge.
big game hunters - ANS The first humans to arrive in N.M. were primarily these type....
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, bison, mastadon, mammoths - ANS Among the animals that early New Mexico inhabitants
hunted were
Eastern - ANS The two prominent archaeological sites in N.M. for early humans can be found
in what part of the state?
Mesolithic period. - ANS As the early group of hunter's game became extinct, a new age of
native inhabitants in N.M. after 8000 B.C. known as this period
4,000-2,500 BC - ANS During the new emerging Desert Culture, the desert dwellers likely
became early farmers sometime between this period.
Southwestern New Mexico - ANS The Mogollon Culture existed in this area
The Developmental Pueblo Culture - ANS The pre-pueblo people (Anasazi) began making
above ground adobe structures during this
pottery making, farming, hunting with a bow and arrow - ANS By the time of the
Developmental Pueblo Culture, the Anasazi were skilled at this
extended and persistent drought - ANS The major cause for the decline of the pre-pueblo
people (Anasazi) after 1100 A.D. was
corn, beans and squash - ANS What were the three primary crops traditionally grown by
Pueblo People?
What were the purposes of the Pueblo Peoples' Kachina religious practices? - ANS to bring
rain for crops and good health for people, just as many people pray for such things
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2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Identify the two recurring themes in New Mexico history. - ANS The living conditions of New
Mexico are often inhospitable, and the people typically live in isolation.
The largest of New Mexico's land form provinces - ANS Basin and Range.
FIVE - ANS The N.M. region has _______ important river systems.
June-September. - ANS Three-quarters of the moisture received in N.M. during an average
years occurs during the the months of
high elevation - ANS In regards to elevation, N.M. is generally considered to be a land of
12,000-8,000 years ago - ANS Humans likely first arrived in N.M. some time between this
time....
The ancestors of earliest native American peoples - ANS These people migrated by land
across the Alaskan-Siberian land bridge.
big game hunters - ANS The first humans to arrive in N.M. were primarily these type....
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, bison, mastadon, mammoths - ANS Among the animals that early New Mexico inhabitants
hunted were
Eastern - ANS The two prominent archaeological sites in N.M. for early humans can be found
in what part of the state?
Mesolithic period. - ANS As the early group of hunter's game became extinct, a new age of
native inhabitants in N.M. after 8000 B.C. known as this period
4,000-2,500 BC - ANS During the new emerging Desert Culture, the desert dwellers likely
became early farmers sometime between this period.
Southwestern New Mexico - ANS The Mogollon Culture existed in this area
The Developmental Pueblo Culture - ANS The pre-pueblo people (Anasazi) began making
above ground adobe structures during this
pottery making, farming, hunting with a bow and arrow - ANS By the time of the
Developmental Pueblo Culture, the Anasazi were skilled at this
extended and persistent drought - ANS The major cause for the decline of the pre-pueblo
people (Anasazi) after 1100 A.D. was
corn, beans and squash - ANS What were the three primary crops traditionally grown by
Pueblo People?
What were the purposes of the Pueblo Peoples' Kachina religious practices? - ANS to bring
rain for crops and good health for people, just as many people pray for such things
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