Pre-Columbian America Quiz
Study Guide 2011
Items you will need:
- any class notes that you wrote into your binder for the Anasazi and Mound Builders
- The Bering Land Bridge Theory (Clovis First) notes handed out and completed by you in class
- So, Where Did Early Native Americans Come From (Migration theories)
- Anasazi Virtual tour homework/notes
- homework assignment - Before the United States (pages 27-29 in your book included)
- New Ideas on the Migrations of Early Peoples in ancient America homework
- Journey to Cahokia reading
- Iroquois Confederacy: A Model Government handout (it was 3 pages and a map)
Migration of early peoples to North America
a. Explain the Bering Land Bridge or Clovis First theory. Try to outline it in bullet points so what you are saying is clear and happens chronologically (in order of what happened in time). What two important pieces of information did I give you that support a migration over Beringia?
b. Where does Kennewick Man fit in to all of this? What was so different about him? Why is this important and a problem in regards to the Bering Land Bridge Theory?
c. What is the Native American point of view? Where do they believe they came from?
d. Other Migration Theories - Using the Migration Theories homework - what are some of the other new ideas about migrating? Be sure to cite examples that support these ideas.
Were there any ancient civilizations in Pre Columbian America?
The Anasazi (Cliff Dwellers)
a. There will be questions from the Anasazi notes/homework you had from the virtual tour
b. Anasazi Cliff homes and cities - what two functions did building in cliff walls have for the Anasazi? Explain these please.
c. Where is the Four Corners area of the United States? (can you identify the states?)
d. What are pictographs and petroglyphs?
e. What happened to the Anasazi?
The Mound Builders (the video on Cahokia will help you remember here)
• What is Cahokia? What is so special about this place? Where is it?
• Where were the mound building cultures of long ago located?
• What were the different types of mounds built?
• How do we define a civilization? (What are the five characteristics we learned)
• What did you learn about the Ocmulgee Mounds in Georgia (you can always review the video on our blog)?
• What state has more mounds than any other?
• Which groups of people/culture are associated with the mound building culture?
The Iroquois Confederacy
What made the Iroquois Confederacy a representative democracy?
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Why were democratic ideas foreign (or unusual) to Europeans at the time of contact with the Iroquois?
What was the Great Law of Peace?
Explain its TWO goals:
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2.
The Iroquois had no written language, so how did anyone understand the Great Law of Peace – good grief it was 117 sections long!
Throughout world history women have had little power in virtually any society. How was this different in the Iroquois society?
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b.
What similarities are there between how the Iroquois ran their government (Think of the Grand Council of Peace) and what we do in our government today?
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b.
Name the tribes of the League (The Six Nations)?
Other possible questions
• What happened to the Bering Land Bridge?
• What is meant by Pre-Columbian?
• Primary and Secondary Sources – What are these? Can you define them? Are you able to give examples?
• There will be questions from the Journey to Cahokia story..
• What is an archaeologist? What is the meaning of the word "migration"?
Voicethread for the Great Law of Peace
Voicethread for the Migration Theories
