SOCI LAC FINAL Exam with complete
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The __ are a towering 5000 mile-long mountain chains straddling western south
america from southern chile to northern colombia - CORRECT ANSWER-andes
with more than 2 million square miles, the __ contains one-third of the worlds tropical
rainforest - CORRECT ANSWER-amazon basin
__ stants for the symbolic and material repertoire with which people in specific contexts
make sense of the world around them - CORRECT ANSWER-culture
ethnography is __ - CORRECT ANSWER-a description or portrait of the culture and
everyday life of the people studies
cultural relativism is associated with __ - CORRECT ANSWER-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? -
CORRECT ANSWER-horizon
which of the empires was located in SA? - CORRECT ANSWER-Inca
aztec elites began imposing gender stratification and inequality only after the spaniards
appeared - CORRECT ANSWER-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? - CORRECT
ANSWER-quetzacoatl
__ were highly mobile groups, known as foreigners, egelitarian, and related by kinship -
CORRECT ANSWER-bands
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__ are societies with extreme political and economic inequalities, stratified by culturally
distinctive groups, and are associated with war - CORRECT ANSWER-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 - CORRECT ANSWER-paleo-indian
the bering straight was __ - CORRECT ANSWER-a land bridge between siberia and
alaska that facilitated entry into the americas
which of these is NOT a path to legal immigration? - CORRECT ANSWER-overstaying
your visa
according to sanabria, why do the people of Latin America and the caribbean share a
Latin culture? - CORRECT ANSWER-because they speak a romance language
one explanation used to explain growth of the latin population in the united states is __ -
CORRECT ANSWER-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? - CORRECT ANSWER-zoology
latin america is the most important trading block of the us - CORRECT ANSWER-true
the discipline of anthropology has two goals...what are they? - CORRECT ANSWER-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 - CORRECT ANSWER-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 __ -
CORRECT ANSWER-ethnogenesis
the inca and the aztec rulers were able to instill hegemony over their territories -
CORRECT ANSWER-false
what did spain lose after the spanish-american war? - CORRECT ANSWER-cuba,
puerto rico, and the philippines
when thinking about spanish gender ideology, which of these is not an example of
honor? - CORRECT ANSWER-practicing cohabitation before marriage
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