SOCI LAC FINAL QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
The __ are a towering 5000 mile-long mountain chains straddling western south america from
southern chile to northern colombia - Answers andes
with more than 2 million square miles, the __ contains one-third of the worlds tropical
rainsforest - Answers amazon basin
__ stants for the symbolic and material repertoire with which people in specific contexts make
sense of the worls around them - Answers culture
ethnography is __ - Answers a description or portrait of the culture and everyday life of the
people studies
cultural relativism is associated with __ - Answers people judging a culture with prejudice and
with comparison to their own culture
in which time period did the two most powerful empired in the americas exist? - Answers
horizon
which of the empires was located in SA? - Answers Inca
aztec elites began imposing gender stratification and inequality only after the spaniards
appeared - Answers false
teotihuacan is well known for 3 ceremonial centers: the sun, moon, and the feathered serpent
pyramids. what is the name of the feather serpent daity? - Answers quetzacoatl
__ were highly mobile groups, known as foreigners, egelitarian, and related by kinship - Answers
bands
__ are societies with extreme political and economic inequalities, stratified by culturally
distinctive groups, and are associated with war - Answers states
__ were moving, unspecialized foragers subsisting on a wide spectrum of marine life,
undomesticated plants, and wild game hunting-what is known as broad-spectrum foraging -
Answers paleo-indian
the bering straight was __ - Answers a land bridge between siberia and alaska that facilitated
entry into the americas
which of these is NOT a path to legal immigration? - Answers overstaying your visa
according to sanabria, why do the people of Latin America and the caribbean share a Latin
culture? - Answers because they speak a romance language
one explanation used to explain growth of the latin population in the united states is __ -
, Answers documented and undocumented migrants fleeing poverty and violence in their home
countries and seeking refuge in US
which of the following answer choices is NOT part of the four fields that compromises the
broad academic discipline of antropology? - Answers zoology
latin america is the most important trading block of the us - Answers true
the discipline of anthropology has two goals...what are they? - Answers to understand how and
why people think and behave differently from each other and to document and understand
cultural similarities
the inca imperialism led to deep changes in gender, creating a decline in the status of the
women - Answers true
the process whereby people of diverse backgrounds come into being a distinctive group with a
new sense of collective identity and consciousness of their past is called __ - Answers
ethnogenesis
the inca and the aztec rulers were able to instill hegemony over their territories - Answers false
what did spain lose after the spanish-american war? - Answers cuba, puerto rico, and the
philippines
when thinking about spanish gender ideology, which of these is not an example of honor? -
Answers practicing cohabitation before marriage
biological and cultural intermingling quickly led to a proliferation of ethno-racial categories that
in mesoamerica and the andes, in particular, were often reffered to as __ - Answers castes
the expansion of public education was an important mechanism of nation-state formation
because of its ability to convey national symbols, internalize them, make them dominant, and
legitimize the nation-state - Answers true
__ is a complex category between black and white used as a psuedo racial category in the early
colonial period - Answers mulatto
the empire that held out the longest against the spanish conquest was the __ empire - Answers
mayan
__ were used as a reward to notable spanish for their service in the conquest, and as a way to
govern millions of indigenous people - Answers encomiendas
the offspring of indigenous and european parents called a __ - Answers mestizo
which of these is not a methos used in nation-state building? - Answers telling the true history of
independence using the "bottom-up", or a "peoples history:
The __ are a towering 5000 mile-long mountain chains straddling western south america from
southern chile to northern colombia - Answers andes
with more than 2 million square miles, the __ contains one-third of the worlds tropical
rainsforest - Answers amazon basin
__ stants for the symbolic and material repertoire with which people in specific contexts make
sense of the worls around them - Answers culture
ethnography is __ - Answers a description or portrait of the culture and everyday life of the
people studies
cultural relativism is associated with __ - Answers people judging a culture with prejudice and
with comparison to their own culture
in which time period did the two most powerful empired in the americas exist? - Answers
horizon
which of the empires was located in SA? - Answers Inca
aztec elites began imposing gender stratification and inequality only after the spaniards
appeared - Answers false
teotihuacan is well known for 3 ceremonial centers: the sun, moon, and the feathered serpent
pyramids. what is the name of the feather serpent daity? - Answers quetzacoatl
__ were highly mobile groups, known as foreigners, egelitarian, and related by kinship - Answers
bands
__ are societies with extreme political and economic inequalities, stratified by culturally
distinctive groups, and are associated with war - Answers states
__ were moving, unspecialized foragers subsisting on a wide spectrum of marine life,
undomesticated plants, and wild game hunting-what is known as broad-spectrum foraging -
Answers paleo-indian
the bering straight was __ - Answers a land bridge between siberia and alaska that facilitated
entry into the americas
which of these is NOT a path to legal immigration? - Answers overstaying your visa
according to sanabria, why do the people of Latin America and the caribbean share a Latin
culture? - Answers because they speak a romance language
one explanation used to explain growth of the latin population in the united states is __ -
, Answers documented and undocumented migrants fleeing poverty and violence in their home
countries and seeking refuge in US
which of the following answer choices is NOT part of the four fields that compromises the
broad academic discipline of antropology? - Answers zoology
latin america is the most important trading block of the us - Answers true
the discipline of anthropology has two goals...what are they? - Answers to understand how and
why people think and behave differently from each other and to document and understand
cultural similarities
the inca imperialism led to deep changes in gender, creating a decline in the status of the
women - Answers true
the process whereby people of diverse backgrounds come into being a distinctive group with a
new sense of collective identity and consciousness of their past is called __ - Answers
ethnogenesis
the inca and the aztec rulers were able to instill hegemony over their territories - Answers false
what did spain lose after the spanish-american war? - Answers cuba, puerto rico, and the
philippines
when thinking about spanish gender ideology, which of these is not an example of honor? -
Answers practicing cohabitation before marriage
biological and cultural intermingling quickly led to a proliferation of ethno-racial categories that
in mesoamerica and the andes, in particular, were often reffered to as __ - Answers castes
the expansion of public education was an important mechanism of nation-state formation
because of its ability to convey national symbols, internalize them, make them dominant, and
legitimize the nation-state - Answers true
__ is a complex category between black and white used as a psuedo racial category in the early
colonial period - Answers mulatto
the empire that held out the longest against the spanish conquest was the __ empire - Answers
mayan
__ were used as a reward to notable spanish for their service in the conquest, and as a way to
govern millions of indigenous people - Answers encomiendas
the offspring of indigenous and european parents called a __ - Answers mestizo
which of these is not a methos used in nation-state building? - Answers telling the true history of
independence using the "bottom-up", or a "peoples history:
